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March
2001
Monique Greenwood
Monique Greenwood, the editor-in-chief of Essence,
is also the proprietor of the Akwaaba Mansion Bed and
Breakfast in Brooklyn's historic black community of
Bedford-Stuyvesant. Audrey Edwards visits her in the
Italianate mansion she shares with her husband, Glenn
Pogue, and their daughter, Glynn.
Doing it all "I'm working really
hard now so I can have the lifestyle I want in retirement,
one with true freedom of time. I'm forty-one, and I
think of the next decade as my building years."
Fatal flaw "Sometimes I forget
that not everyone is going to work the way I do, or
be as driven as I am."
Turning 40 "I went away by myself
to Cape May, New Jersey, checked myself into somebody
else's B&B, sipped somebody else's tea and let
somebody else make me breakfast."
Mix master "I really think Victorian
and African pieces coexist nicely. They both have strong
lines and give a warm feeling and a sense of longevity
and history."
Shopping trail "I buy locally
at the antique shops on Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue,
and when I travel. My antique gardening tools [below]
are from Ghana and I bought my dining room chairs in
North Carolina."
Staying in the hood "My mother
birthed me in Washington, D.C., but I feel I was born
in Bedford-Stuyvesant. I moved here right after college
and just fell in love with the brownstones and the
brown people who live in those brownstones."
Guilty pleasures "Buying antiques
and doing house tours. I love looking at other people's
homes."
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