Dale C. Slavin’s “Joie de Vie,” a limestone sculpture on a granite base, looks like a single woman chilling with her children in Beachwood near The Land in Ohio.
My new doctor is Indian. During a recent first visit, he asked if I had children. When I told this graham-cracker colored man no, the look on his face revealed he rarely met Black women over twenty who were virgins to giving birth. Then he went and asked me that other question, the question that comes first—I presume—if you are any other attractive single woman. Why aren’t you married?
