Category Archives: Random

Lessons from a Butterfly

Posted on August 24, 2018 by

One week ago today I was doing my pool exercises when I saw something so very extraordinary I took a calculated risk to retrieve my cell phone from the buggy it rests in without disturbing the amazing sight. butterfly on … Continue reading →

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notes of two native daughters, a native granddaughter, and a native daughter-in-law (2)

Posted on May 26, 2018 by

This quotation from Maya Angelou is written on the walls of what is now The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration located on the site of a former warehouse where slaves were kept in prison while awaiting their fate … Continue reading →

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prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Posted on March 20, 2018 by

Originally posted on I'll Call It Like I See It:
Lordy, Lordy.  I think I’ve just seen the green weenie, as my paternal grandmother used to say when she saw something so inexplicable she was at a loss for…

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A’ja, we hardly knew ye

Posted on February 22, 2018 by

Tonight Pretty and I, along with 12,000 of our closest friends, will say goodbye to Gamecock women’s basketball senior A’ja Wilson who will be playing her final regular season game at Colonial Life Arena. We are carrying plenty of tissues … Continue reading →

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hello, gorgeous – the memories, the music, the magic of Streisand

Posted on January 5, 2018 by

When Ellen DeGeneres introduced Barbra Streisand on her show a week before Christmas, I was a member of her mesmerized TV viewing audience… but felt something was slightly off kilter from the moment Barbra made her entrance. What was wrong, … Continue reading →

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sweet home Alabama!

Posted on December 13, 2017 by

Thank you to the people of Alabama for restoring my faith and hope in a life-long American dream of liberty and justice for all and for reminding me that Every Vote Counts. I especially want to thank the black women … Continue reading →

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#Me Too

Posted on November 28, 2017 by

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Pray, Mourn, Repeat

Posted on October 23, 2017 by

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Silver Threads and Golden Needles

Posted on September 26, 2017 by

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Spike speaks

Posted on July 29, 2017 by

Hello. My name is Spike, and I don’t ever get to say anything in cyberspace. It’s not that I don’t have something to say. It’s just that nobody ever asks me what I think. And I think plenty. That’s what … Continue reading →

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