My Feets Are Big

My feet are pretty big – note I didn’t say too big. Too big is a judgment call. Real big […]

The First Wrong

I often read and hear about crimes and situations that have gone terribly awry. A person intended to do one […]

One is the Magic Number*

My most important and on-going relationship is the one I have with myself. I’ve learned to take care of myself, to […]

Mr. Poetry Man

He’s “the poetry man, you make things alright.” sings Phoebe Snow in her song from 1989, One of my favorite […]

Misleading headline

I have had a problem with headlines in the newspaper for some time now because they are frequently misleading, confusing, […]

Bleak Unemployment Statistic for Black men

“Nationally, less than 60 percent of black men age 20 and older were employed in February, the lowest share since the government began tracking such data in 1972, and down from 66 percent a year earlier.”


This statistic jumped out at me from an article, “Hanging on to hope on line,” written by Peter S. Goodman in the Boston Sunday Globe on April 5.


How do you respond to a statistic like that? What do you do with the feelings it brings up, specially as a Black woman who is the wife and mother and sister ...