Month Published: July, 2020

Baseball was big when I was a kid, at least in our house. Mom rooted for the Dodgers, because she liked underdogs, hated the establishment, and ...

My good friend and former partner, Paul McCary, reacted to some of my stories about my childhood by writing about his life as a child in ...

We took a few days of vacation on Cape Cod last week. It was cloudy and cool, so we traded sitting around our house for sitting ...

In these heart-wrenching times, many folks are asking, “How can I help?” or “How can my family be part of the solution?” As a Black Woman, ...

I loved my grandfather. He was a character. He was full of life and fun and hard work. Grandpa loved to talk. Talking was how he ...

I grew up in Eggertsville, a village that was part of Amherst, a town just north and east of Buffalo, New York. My family’s house was ...

I’ve become an anti-racism activist. I’m not a demonstrating activist or a protesting activist. My activism is talking to people about racism. Primarily as the result ...

Juneteenth should be a national holiday. When I first heard about Juneteenth, I thought it was a nice little idea to commemorate a time in history. ...