Category: Motivation and Inspiration

Welcome To Linda’s Rave Reviews Back-To-School Book and Blog Block Party!

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TGIF Everybody and Welcome! It’s another Rave Reviews Book Club BOOK AND BLOG BLOCK PARTY!              (Try saying that fast!) I’m coming to you from just outside Chicago, IL—close enough to run to it, far enough to run away! My gifts to you for sharing with me today are (1) $15.00 […]

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The Neon Houses -Excerpt # Two

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My main character, Noel Kennedy, comes from a line of clairvoyant women. Her mother, Claudette, is believed to be one of the strongest clairvoyants alive. On the night of the scene below, Noel’s husband, Dickey, sees a strange phenomenon as Claudette is leaving his home:  

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My Grandmother As Inspiration

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My grandmother, affectionately called Miss Dorothy, lived in a beautiful white frame house on the corner of a shady street. The Memphis Transit bus stopped a few feet from her front door and she knew everybody who got on or off the bus. Consequently, there was a lot of “Good morning!” “Good evening!” and hat […]

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Paul L. Dunbar’s “The Party” Still Sounds Good

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The first time I heard “The Party” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, it was recited by Ms. Eunita Rushing, an alumna of his namesake school in Chicago. I had not known Ms. Rushing to be such an orator, and though the Hall of Fame Induction that night was in honor of famous dignitaries like Bernard Shaw, […]

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