IN A RESTAURANT in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, a won1an in a white dress picks up a microphone as a keyboardist gently plays. "I wanted to silence these scars that reminded me how I was broken, bullied, beaten and cut open alive,...
The partiers had staggered to bed, motor scooters hadn't started their daily assault, and the tourists shops were closed - even the hotel staff was fast asleep on the floor in front of the reception. Our trip to Gili Air was a 14-hour journey the cheap way (or a 3 hour jaunt if ...
pre- cision marching and horseman- ship choreographed to military band music, about 1,220 soldiers in ceremonial red dress and huge black bear- skin caps sa- luted the monarch in the Trooping the Color cer- emony at the Horse Guards Pa- Queen Elizabeth II rade ground near Buckingham Palace...
My mother wears a white dress with big red poppies all over it. Around her waist is a cloth belt in the same material, and on her head a red hat with a white plastic flower on it. Her shoes and bag are white. My father is in a safari suit whose colour I can no longer remember...
She wore full makeup, hair, jewelry, perfume, modest heels, a dress jacket, and skirt. Dressed, we climbed into Granddaddy's truck for the ride to church where he and other elder men sat at the front of the church and purveyed over the congregation. Deacon Albert Frazier, Jr.'s role...