Telling Our Stories

This week I was fortunate enough to have an article published in a new journal, Root Work Journal. It is a journal designed to share stories from and about African Americans. More Than A Color tells the story of how African Americans fought back when others marginalized their worth and beauty. My story shows how

Seasons Are Important

I never knew how much I loved winter until I got to experience a real winter. I mean the kind with deep snow and lots of large fluffy snowflakes.  Below zero temperatures where you can’t expose any of your skin. When it is so cold outside that your eyes immediately start watering when you go inside.

March Art of the Month

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Somedays You Pack a Suitcase and Run

You are going somewhere. It is promising.  You toss some things in a suitcase and go. Keep your bag ready to go because you never know when the time will come.

What Do You Pack?

When you go somewhere most of the time you need to take a few things with you.  I know depending on where you go determines what you take with you. What do you pack it in? The idea of a suitcase was an afterthought. At the time it was created, only rich people traveled, and

On This Journey, Enjoy The View

There will be a lot to see

Inner Journey

In order to go anywhere, your mind and body have to be ready to go. I believe this is why most people don’t travel far from their home. We are not willing to leave behind the familiar to seek out the unfamiliar.  For some of us, there is too much danger in the unknown. In

Sometimes it won’t look the way you planned

There will be ups and down on the journey

  You just learn the new rhythm

Fascinating Places

2019 will be a fascinating journey for me. It has started with a bang.  I have spent the first part of January reading books that take me deep into the jungles of the African continent. I read the story of one of the last people brought to the United States on a slave ship. He