Category Archives: family life

we are all Wonder Women

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Sheila Morris

Huge thanks to my good Sister Marla Wood for posting this powerful image on her FB page. I thought when I saw it, wow, this is a great theme for Women’s History Month. Let’s get down to it. In March, … Continue reading →

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: these are his stories, these are his songs

Posted on February 24, 2021 by Sheila Morris

“The church is the oldest, the most continuous and most important institution ever created by the African American people.” — Henry Louis Gates, Jr. told Jeffrey Brown of PBS in an interview about his new four hour two-part documentary The … Continue reading →

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troubles in texas

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Sheila Morris

Our thoughts for the past few days have turned south and west toward my home state of Texas, and Pretty’s second home state with me when we were bi-stateual from 2010 – 2014. We are a thousand miles from our … Continue reading →

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if the answer is a bridge too far, the question is what is a welcome diversion?

Posted on February 14, 2021 by Sheila Morris

The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming – down under to the 2021 Australian Open Tennis Tournament that began with high hopes for real live fans in the stands but now those stands have been emptied for a five … Continue reading →

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This is Dedicated to the One I Love

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Sheila Morris

Return with me to those thrilling days of yesteryear, actually twenty years ago this week, to meet Pretty who magically changed from being a close friend and confidante before the spontaneous trip to Cancun pictured above in February, 2001 to … Continue reading →

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Down a Rabbit Hole Through the Looking Glass

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Sheila Morris

Found your pilot. Died in 1956. Earl Matthew Quigg of Hokenbaqua, Pennsylvania. Born in 1930. Air force. Married. Died on Sept. 17 at 3:15 pm of crushing injuries and conflagration, .7 miles south of Richards, Texas in open pasture. Thanks … Continue reading →

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MLK Day in 2021

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Sheila Morris

“As I began doing the research for this email and was reading the speeches of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I had no idea that the events – the breach of our national Capitol building on January 6th  would occur.  … Continue reading →

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yep – this is who we are

Posted on January 9, 2021 by Sheila Morris

The images flashing across the television screen this week were appalling but compelling. I couldn’t look away, even when I didn’t want to see, much less believe, what was happening in my nation’s capitol. An estimated 10,000 of mostly white … Continue reading →

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the final new year

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Sheila Morris

  She sat in her large recliner covered with worn blankets for extra warmth.  She was shrunken with age and her spine was so curved by scoliosis she slumped down into the bowels of the chair. It seemed to swallow … Continue reading →

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from the prom to white christmas to 2021

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Sheila Morris

Pretty and I began Christmas Day with a musical comedy called The Prom that started streaming on Netflix in December with a cast that featured three of our film favorites, Meryl Streep, Kerry Washington and Nicole Kidman. The movie got … Continue reading →

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