Yesterday at the swim club in Berkeley, two women about my age were sitting in the hot tub, giggling about adventures on beaches along the opposite coast. I joined them. When they asked about my teenage memories of the same, I hesitated. I don’t know them except as our paths cross at the pool. I […]
Toni Martin
TONI MARTIN is a Black physician and writer, author of When the Personal Was Political: Five Women Doctors Look Back. Her essays and stories have appeared in The Threepenny Review, The East Bay Express, and other publications.

