Tag: Author Linda Mims

Jennie Sherwin, #RRBC’s Bethany Turner “Pay It Forward” Week Recipient

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We kick off Bethany Turner’s Pay It Forward Week honoring a well liked author in the Rave Reviews Book Club community—Jennie Sherwin—author of “Intentional Healing: One Woman’s Path to Higher Consciousness and Freedom from Environmental and Other Chronic Illnesses”. Today, we salute a writer whose style, as described by Amazon Kindle readers, is “crisp and […]

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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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Cozy—Old School—Childhood Neighborhoods?

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Reprinted from Boomacious.com, L. Mims Something tragic happened to the old neighborhoods where I grew up in the 60’s. In those days, most of the businesses up and down 31st and 35th Streets, from King Dr. (South Park) to Michigan were owned by our neighbors. There was a drycleaner and a hardware store, both owned […]

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Anybody Remember Typewriters?

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Reprinted from Boomacious.com, L. Mims My 27 year-old daughter had a great time laughing at how my generation had to rely on manual typewriters to write our high school and college term papers. I regaled her with stories of dozens of balled up papers surrounding the trashcan. These papers boasted mistakes, lumpy whited-out corrections and […]

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