Once there was a wedding Today is my wedding anniversary. The photos are of the principal characters. What a time it’s been so far. This is mewas thenand you then and still we through dark sometimesthen now and will bethough clouds werearewill come and the rain is coldthe nights are always soft through the windthat […]
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The Snow White Tigress -by Mike Steeden On July 3, 2021 By ResaIn Book Reviews, Interviews My words are in blue. Mike’s words are in black italics. “Frenchie” sobriquet for the French Resistance hero of this tale, is one kick ass martial arts fighter. She can kill a nazi in the blink of an eye. She […]
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Independence Day 1907 Audubon, Iowa The Sherd and Laura Goff family Read more …
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J. F. Frazier’s Studio, Audubon, Iowa 1907 Audubon I knew this was Leora Goff but had no idea how old she was. Then I noticed this very faint mark in the lower right. I could make out that it was from Audubon! According to Leora’s memoirs, they moved “in March of 1906 to farm eight […]
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Mechanics “These are not weeds, but garlands woven by time on your existence.” It is my tenth day in the seniors’ home. I’m doing a survey for my thesis on speed of social change. I gather distilled wisdom, but the context has changed. They are unable to build a relevance for themselves in new frameworks. […]
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Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro is a much needed lesson in our history I did not plan on an extra post today (actually, I rarely plan them, they just happen) but when I read Keith’s post, it was far too valuable not to share. He makes some points in this post that we ALL need […]
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Coming Clean: Stories by Betty Moffett I am a born and bred Southerner successfully transplanted to the Midwest. Very early in my life I learned to love the stories I heard on my grandmother’s screen porch. Soon after, an intense love affair with ‘Black Beauty’ taught me the power of stories to transform and […]
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Child in the arms Child in the arms sleeps. In the dark trees a marten bows branches beneath its weight, before the meadow is streaked with swallows. […] Read the complete poem Tip: The new book, a small collection of poems with water running through them,water and what’s thicker than water, blood that binds […]
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For a period of five months the 11th Airborne Division would receive jungle warfare and intensified combat unit ground training in the primitive land of jungles and mountains and thatched huts and the native population fondly called, Fuzzy Wuzzies. The Papua brigades and Allied forces, that fought in what constituted the Cartwheel Operations before the […]
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Understanding Our Past — CRT: Part I Okay, folks … it seems that there is much confusion surrounding the concept of Critical Race Theory or CRT. The confusion is twofold: genuine confusion by people who truly do not understand the theory, and fake outrage by racists and Republicans (largely one and the same) who are […]
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