WHAT’S TRUE ABOUT MOST PEOPLE?
MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE HATING ON YOU, THEY ARE NOT WORRIED ABOUT WHERE YOU ARE. THEY’RE WORRIED ABOUT WHERE YOU’RE GOING.
ELIJAH CUMMINGS (1951 – 2019)
Sheila Morris
THIS IS NOT AMERICA
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Category Archives: Slice of Life
celebrating Black History Month with Pearl
In the tiny Sears Roebuck kit house I grew up in, boundaries were both invisible and highly visible. The home was owned by my maternal grandmother and shared with two of my mother’s adult brothers in addition to my daddy, … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, photography, politics, racism, Random, Reflections, Slice of Life, sports, The Way Life Is
Tagged fishing, longstreet cemetery montgomvery county texas, racism, rural family life, sears catalog kit houses, segregation, slave quarters, slavery, texas tanks, wanda sykes
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Emmylou + Pretty = memory maker overnighter
As we left the restaurant Friday night, the cloudy gray skies we had followed to Greensboro, North Carolina rudely let loose with a deluge of rain for which both Pretty and I were unprepared. Jennifer, our friend who had ordered … Continue reading
it’s a simple matter of justice – remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1993 March on Washington for LGBT Equality Twenty-seven years ago this April I marched with the South Carolina delegation in the 1993 March on Washington. It was a life-changing experience not only for me but for hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading
hear ye, hear ye – calling ALL patriots: Mayday, Mayday!
Tears rolled down my cheeks today as I watched and heard House Manager Adam Schiff read the two Articles of Impeachment referred to the Senate by the House of Representatives for trial and removal of the president. Listening to the … Continue reading
boys and girls together
Finn, Oscar, Dwight, George – these are the names of the most important men in my life for the last nine years. I know for sure the number of years because Finn turned nine years old in November, Dwight will … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, photography, politics, racism, Random, Reflections, Slice of Life, sports, The Way Life Is
Tagged babysitting, fabulous huss brothers, new granddaughter
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if these are the last days, we better have cash according to Pretty
Last night Pretty and I were watching who’s the greatest of all time on Jeopardy, bemoaning the fact that neither of us will ever make a million dollars answering questions which we might be able to think of the answers … Continue reading
pretty in fine form for new year’s day
‘Twas the week after Christmas, and all through the house two creatures are stirring, and neither’s a mouse. Only Spike and I are up so far, and in all fairness we’re probably not even stirring – more staring than stirring. … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, photography, politics, racism, Random, Reflections, Slice of Life, sports, The Way Life Is
Tagged 2020, dark, new decade, New Year, sunrise
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