

Some Bad Ass Kids
At some point, we all laugh at the “Get Off My Lawn” phase of life and as a GenXer, my peers are arthritic knees deep in it. I sometimes catch myself mid-thought when I find I am complaining about modern societal changes and annoyances with the younger generations. I remember there is nothing new under the sun. Same game. New players. When my peers lament about these kids doing stupid things and claim we didn’t in our younger years, I must remind them, yes, we most certainly
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The Black Enclave
The current political/social environment has exposed just how racist the U.S remains and I find myself longing for the days of my childhood where I was insulated from the overt and covert racism and bigotry. Measuring that, for me, was realizing it wasn’t until I was 13 years old that I was called a “nigger” to my face by a white boy while walking home from the bus-stop in the neighborhood my parents moved us to in New Orleans East. That’s a story for another time.Our little
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The Ones That Never Were...
I grew up viewing motherhood as laborious, tedious, and a burden, an obligation not a blessing nor a privilege. It was something to...
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The Portal
Fifty years ago, a little girl sat on the pull-out sofa bed in her grandparents’ living room sobbing, uncontrollably, as her mother tried...
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The Slap
Watching the events unfold in the wake of the slap heard around the world triggered me in a way I didn’t see coming. I’m a sexual...
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Through Loss, More Gains
The heart is the locus of physical and spiritual being, and represents the "central wisdom of feeling as opposed to the head-wisdom of...
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Turn the Page
I don’t like change. It scares me. The irony here is that I am always striving to learn new things and I believe knowledge is the...
May 21, 20252 min read

