When I find myself becoming discouraged by the general commercialism, price tag, and "me-me-me" of present-day Christmases, or disgusted with the way human beings continue to treat each other, or depressed and touchy because this is yet another holiday season without my mom and my baby brother, I take a minute and let myself be… Continue reading As long as there are folks on this planet with that look, there is hope.
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The first time I realized “Jemima” was more than a derogatory black name…
...was when, as a young teen in the mid-1970s, I watched the movie musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). I was already a daydreamer, a romantic, and a fantasy-lover with an imagination that stretched from here to the Horsehead Nebula, so the movie made me laugh and I enjoyed it ridiculously. But hovering in the back… Continue reading The first time I realized “Jemima” was more than a derogatory black name…
Manuscript. Head. Drawer. 