Reading Diverse Books is the First Step to Healing Our Country.

February 14, 2017.Reading time 8 minutes.

I grew up being a reader of diverse books. In fact until I went to college, I hadn’t even picked up a book by a black author!

Letting Go the Face of My Brand! Good-bye Captain!

December 20, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

I was still very young when I took that picture in the Captain’s Hat. I thought, incorrectly, that 40 and older was a little dusty—not like the youthful, dewy 40, 50, and 60’s of today. I had gone to Sears with my daughters, who were nine and four at the time, and I’d been lured […]

10 Quick Tips About Baby Boomers

November 21, 2015.Reading time 1 minute.

American Baby Boomers are a rare breed. They were blessed to have lived during a time when Americans were free to express themselves through sit-ins, marches, protests, demonstrations, bra-burning, and the Beatles. Baby Boomers experienced an avalanche of 20th and 21st Century hysteria. They have few regrets! They invented technology. They paid into their pensions and Social Security. Their […]

My Grandmother As Inspiration

August 31, 2015.Reading time 6 minutes.

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 […]