Christmas or Shopmass? Holidays or holidaze?
Are you having Christmas or Shopmas? Are celebrating the holidays or are you in a holi-daze? I believe it’s up […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
A new place for thanks
For the first time in many, many years, I will not be cooking anything on Thanksgiving. Even when I’ve gone […]
Howdy Partner
Howdy Partner/Becoming Partners The comedian Flip Wilson famously played a character, Geraldine on his comedy show. In one of the sketches […]
Keep your eyes on the prize: finish the degree!
Dear Daughter, You have delivered them to college (Morehouse and North Carolina A&T). What you’ve been grooming them for truly […]
Celebrating Norma Jean – 85
In 2011, I wrote a post titled, Don’t Change: An Impossible Request of Family. It seems like it was just […]
Accepting the message despite the delivery
I have learned not to let the messenger or delivery method obscure the truth of the information being delivered .This […]
It’s Raining – My Sisters are Pooring
(It’s raining, it’s pouring, my sister are pooring.*) If we had really understood, do you think we would have ended […]
Tax Day – the IRS
Angie Stone proves once again that artists can make art out of anything, even owning the I.R.S. Being broke is […]
Channeling my inner Norma Jean (Mama)
My mother is a strong woman. When the going gets tough, she gets tough and keeps going. I channel my […]
Edith/Jassy – decades apart yet the same conclusion – R.I.P
The recent murder of Jassy Correia who was murdered after leaving a club in Boston brought the following essay I […]
Apology Desired/Expected
There are some apologies from public figures that I desired and expected, perhaps stupidly. I am glad that I didn’t […]
High Anxiety
Just because you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean I tried to make you uncomfortable. Was it something I said? Was it […]
We found each other despite our friends – Happy Valentine’s ...
My husband and I have several friends in common who we’ve known long before we were married. None of them […]
The Dichotomy – Those that Have, Those that Have Not
I am torn apart and set asunder by the dichotomy I witness daily; the striking differences in the way people […]
Envy or Not – I say not
Envy or not. I say not. This past Christmas, my husband and I traveled to Atlanta and Charlotte. We had […]
The First Wrong (Murderers of Jazmine Barnes)
I wrote The First Wrong in May 2009 and posted it to my blog. It was written in response to […]
Some “ings” in my life and on my mind
I’ve been having some “ings” in my life and on my mind. Here we go: Learning how to love. Learning […]