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IF YOU WANT MORE
- find your happy place
- memory makers over Memorial Day
- I will be missing you, Tina Turner
- Calling All Lesbians – Time to Speak Out!
- Nana, is your birthday over yet?
- Prologue to I’ll Call It Like I See It Revisited
- Economics 101 Revisited
- Epilogue For Deep in the Heart Revisited
- and then there were these Mother’s Day Moments in 2023
- making fudge with my mother
- if not us, who? if not now, when?
- guns over children? american carnage
- the eyes of texas – and the rest of the world – are upon you
- one final birthday card – and gift
- you can cage the singer, but not the song – Harry Belafonte (1927 – 2023)
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Flannery O'Connor answered the mystery for me of why I write?
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I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
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Tag Archives: fishing
celebrating Black History Month with Pearl Harris
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 family life, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, politics, racism, Reflections, Slice of Life, The Way Life Is, The Way Life Should Be
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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unfinished business: a man of letters
In the summer of 2018 I published eleven stories focused on letters written during WWII by my father to my mother, his mother and others. I ended the series with the assurance that I had other letters written by my … Continue reading
Posted in family life, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, Reflections, Slice of Life, sports, The Way Life Is, The Way Life Should Be
Tagged 1950s education, 8th air force, basketball and baseball high school coach, brazoria, covid, dallas cowboys, earth burning, fishing, grimes county texas, gun violence, hunting quail, letter writing, miami florida building collapse, richmond, segregated schools, southern baptist churches in richards, sports teams, WWII veteran
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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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I'll Call It Like I See It 