All around us there are people who are not surviving life. Babies are dying from illness, hunger, hate, guns, bombs, parents, etc. Young people are dying from illness, hunger, hate, guns, bombs, young people, etc. Elderly people are dying from illness, hunger, hate, guns, bombs, people, etc. If you have become an adult in this […]
As a little black girl in southern Georgia, I remember calculating how old Elvis would be when I was old enough to marry him…I must have been six or seven. Of course, I knew that our marriage would be frowned upon, but I still loved him. Who wouldn’t love a man who took a band […]
I find lazy days to be quite elusive in these times. But every once in a while, I make it happen. My body signals me to just take a rest day. But even on a rest day, I find myself working on small things that are not as tasking as normal days…reading a favorite book, […]
I was sitting in a chair in my home office talking to a friend. My feet were propped up on the desk; the television was on but the sound was muted. I was holding this conversation and inattentively watching the screen…but I saw a plane crashing into a building. Not in any stretch of my […]
After five years of marriage to the wrong person, she sat in front of me and said, “I filed for divorce.” One week after the last visit to the marriage counselor, she took her two little girls and left. The details are not important…what is important is having the courage to refuse to do what […]
I don’t care how old he is, and I don’t care that he stumbles every once in a while. One thing I know for sure is President Biden is no coward. Yesterday, the President of the United States went into a country at war during a very volatile time. He went there to show support […]
We have been divided far too long in America…and, about what? Who deserves a shot at the American dream. From the Bible to Lincoln, we have been taught a house divided cannot stand. And here we find ourselves with not only a House divided but a country divided. People are mad at others because they […]
I know so many people who go to work every single day–sometimes two or three jobs–and yet, they just cannot get a paycheck ahead. I would try to figure out a way to provide them with a little breathing room. I know the fruit of having a little breathing room…it gives you the opportunity to […]
I am a black woman and a liberal. I live in small southern town and Trump was visiting a small nearby city. I went to the rally just to see what it was like. I wore a pair of jeans and a plain T-shirt. Being this black, liberal, Christian, America-loving, freedom-embracing, patriotic, female, retired military […]
Not once, not ever, have I heard the former President, Donald speak about democracy. Perhaps, that is why he finds it so easy to ignore the laws that keep it safe. I didn’t need to hear the former President’s chief of staff, John Kelly, confirm Trump’s disdain for the military to know it was so. […]
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