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Pandemic Stories: What happened to Fluffy?

I keep finding these drafts that I wrote at the beginning of the pandemic. They’re in the Drafts folder in my Gmail. I wrote this one on…

Apr 24, 2021

Pandemic Stories: What happened to Fluffy?

Apr 24, 2021

Yes I’m a Doctor!

A fellow graduate student gave me this cup when I defended my dissertation back in 2010. I don’t use the title much and most people don’t…

Dec 14, 2020

Yes I’m a Doctor!

Dec 14, 2020

Airplanes, Bologna Sandwiches, and Skyscrapers

A nine year old Dominican girl on her first road trip in America in the early 1980s.

Dec 2, 2020

Airplanes, Bologna Sandwiches, and Skyscrapers

Dec 2, 2020

Charcoalatte etc.: Stomach Strike

Dear Nadine,

Nov 16, 2020

Charcoalatte etc.: Stomach Strike

Nov 16, 2020

Charcoalatte Critters: Relax girl, she says. It’s gonna be aight.

Lola gets a hysterectomy. A story by Nadine Shillingford Wondem (Charcoalatte)

Nov 16, 2020

Charcoalatte Critters: Relax girl, she says. It’s gonna be aight.

Nov 16, 2020

Charcoalatte etc: When I am 41…

It’s about 4:45pm. I decide that I could not possible end my 41st birthday without a dance. Random, I know. I dress up in my most…

Nov 16, 2020

Charcoalatte etc: When I am 41…

Nov 16, 2020

Charcoalatte Travel: Dominican Commerce

I wrote this article right after a 2017 trip to Dominica for my Daddy’s funeral.

Nov 16, 2020

Charcoalatte Travel: Dominican Commerce

Nov 16, 2020

Charcoalatte Critters: Cat Anxiety

It’s my lunch break and I’m sitting here at the vet, waiting for the nurse to come back with Abbey. It took me several minutes before I…

Nov 16, 2020

Charcoalatte Critters: Cat Anxiety

Nov 16, 2020

Travel Series: Crème Brule

H wakes me up this morning at 4am. I fight a mixture of excitement that I’m going to see my new baby nephew and the sadness that we’re…

Nov 16, 2020

Travel Series: Crème Brule

Nov 16, 2020

A Trip Across Time Zones: A Novella

Hour 1: We’ve just boarded the airplane and the excitement is thick. Everyone is clean, the babies are tidy, the men have used up every…

Nov 16, 2020

A Trip Across Time Zones: A Novella

Nov 16, 2020

Nadine Shillingford Wondem

Nadine Shillingford Wondem

Nadine is a Dominican-American artist and writer based in Nashville, TN. See more of her work at charcoalatte.com.

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