● In My Grandmother’s Time
A short story about my grandmother
Who is my grandmother? The first time we met, I was twelve years old. She was from a large sharecropping family. Most of … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Category: It Gets Better
● Ask A Woman
We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.
– Shirley Chisholm
It’s March 8th, International Women’s … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Unanswered Ideas
You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
– Shirley Chisholm
Explore them.
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● Deeply Rooted
Imagine being so deeply rooted in yourself that, like the oldest oak tree, with the strongest stress-wood, no matter which way the wind blew, you’d still stand tall and strong. What would … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
◾️ Ode to a Japanese Garden
I made my long-standing visit to a beautiful and magical place today – a Japanese garden. It lays peace and calm upon me that lasts for an entire year.… 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Leave the Table
You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served. – Nina Simone
As the completion of the marquetry project drew near, it was hard to let … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● One Good Year
Getting up early each morning gives me a whole day to think, to laugh, and to be grateful that I can. Many cannot — rest in peace. Some days … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Immortal Black Rosies
For each “Black Rosie” who served honorably, bravely, and fittingly under difficult circumstances. 🌹
Black women or Black Rosies were the unacknowledged heroines on the domestic front during World … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Beyond A Simple Life
Change is the hardest thing to accept when you fear what comes as a result of it.
A Movie
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
The Scene
● What I Wish For
Midnight:01
Change. Is a word.
Nothing lasts forever. Change is life and everything in it… changes. I heard those words in my very impressionable first years when my father … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Refresh my Memory
Just what did we fight for? Refresh my memory, please. It’s Veterans Day, right?
Women and men spent months, years, or a lifetime protecting this country’s ideals around the … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● October Flower
For many people on the planet, halloween and its attendant activities will soon be here. For me still… I can’t do it. Here is why. In my … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞