This year for Dr. King's Birthday, I want to share two things with you. A speech, and a Jeopardy game board. The speech is "Give Us the Ballot". I listen to it every election year and I'll share a quote to show you why I listen to it. Over 30...
Happy New Year! I think I have been making New Year’s Resolutions for over 30 years. On New Year’s Day, I would write down everything I hoped to do, from finding a guy, to cruising through Europe, to buying a house, to publishing my stories, to losing 100 lbs. At...
I don’t like guns. I don’t like the speed with which they can kill from a distance. I don’t like the fact that they can spray a room with bullets in a matter of seconds. I don’t like how quickly their presence can escalate an argument leading to a...
I am a very intellectual person, and finding the motivation to do non-intellectual things is so challenging... well, they just don’t get done. And I’m talking the most basic things. Housecleaning, laundry, exercise to name a few. Back in March, I was struggling with deep depression – that I...
Two years ago, when I started a new job, my prospective boss, who had already targeted me as a liberal, asked how I would feel traveling to the Midwest, maybe 1-2 hours from the nearest big city. It was not a simple question. Politically, I was probably going to...
I’m about to switch jobs, and I was riding in the car with a girlfriend, waxing poetic about my work, and she was saying "uh-huh, uh-huh" and I really thought she was getting it, but then I asked point blank – "Are you understanding ANYTHING that I am saying?"...
I am back on the road again after a very long dry spell between October and March where I only traveled about once a month. Now that my and my husband’s health issues have all been resolved (two surgeries and a cancer scare), it’s time to get back to...
I was asked what it is that I love about writing. I have been writing since I was 17 and the two things that I love have not changed since then. First, is the flow. When I first started writing, it was poetry. My cousin had died from Leukemia...
Will there be More Bougie Blues? I’ve had a few people ask about it. I hadn’t planned to. I was going to have a one-book-wonder. After all, all I really wanted to do was share my stories. But what if I have more stories to tell? Do I? Maybe. One...
For most of my adult life, I have watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" every December. Strangely enough, I do not know the words to any of the songs. You would think, after allllllllllllllll these years, I would know more than "You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch...." Yup, that’s...