January 2021

One of my favorite movies when I was a kid was “The Never Ending Story.” At the end of that movie the story is on the verge of ending forever and Fantasia, the fictional world, is encased in darkness. Bastian and the Empress, Moon Child, are having a dialogue trying to save Fantasia. In the…

2020 Year in Review

2020 has been a succubus of a year, slowly leeching out my faith in humanity and steadily destroying small pieces of my soul. Its endless propensity for horrendous events/moments has never let up. It all started so benign. At the beginning of 2020, I was wrapping up my annual trip to San Francisco for the…

Best Early Birthday Present EVER!

I can breathe again. When I was a young child, no more than 11 years old, I was horsing around with someone who was my age and weighed roughly the same amount that I weighed. At some point in this playing, I wound up on my back with the person sitting on my chest. I…

Four Years Ago …

I remember exactly where I was, what I did, and how I felt. That day is forever etched in my soul. That was the first time in my life that I was fearful being an African American woman in the country in which I was born. Below is the story of what happened on that…

THIS IS WHO I AM

This is my personal blog. Before the murder of George Floyd and the protesting that followed, I was working on a post about the first time I traveled to Charleston, SC. Well, I just don’t have it in me to post something that brought me so much joy given the recent events. In lieu of…

First Post post-coronavirus

My last blog post was September 10, 2018. There never seem to be enough time or energy to complete posting about my trip to Cuba in May 2017. Now, all I have it time (outside the hours that I am scheduled to work from home). March 21, 2020 was the last day that I spent…