Celebrating Our Differences
Back in the Day… Starting in life, I began to formulate how I would impact my world and eventually the world at large. When I was three or four years old, my parents opened a juke joint named “The Dew Drop Inn.” And my aunt and uncle,…
“I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I’ve learned, is the stuff of mastery.” — Danielle LaPorte Sometimes you find yourself at an impasse, pondering which direction to pursue. Of course, there are many directions, Up, Down, Sideways, North, South, East, West, Left, Right, each with its…
At some time in our lives, most of us have come to a fork in the road and needed to decide what direction we should take. If only we had a GPS to guide us, or even an old-fashioned Road Atlas or one of those maps we…
Where are you going? Are you moving in the direction of your dreams and desires, or are you wandering along, going through the familiar motions of well-worn routines? Your direction is something to think about. What direction is your life taking? And do you realize that your…
This was one of the two paintings Miles and I collaborated on for his Paris reunion show. It was created for a show which was the last summer of his life. Basically the last tour in France. We worked on it in the spring of that year 1991in…
Susan Peters, ” living a vigorously physical and intellectual life…” “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced” James Baldwin. I am in my seventh decade. A former runner, my sprint through life, along with that of other…
Who had the most positive influence on you as a child? 2/10/21 My paternal grandfather, whom I always knew as Earl L. Heverly, but whose full name was literally the longest name of anyone I know, “Lincoln McKinley Earl De La Monte Heverly de Heverly,” given to him…
What is the best thing that I have learned over my76 years that can help us move toward financial equality? PROPER USE OF LIFE INSURANCE My Non-Professional Advice: As near as possible to the age of responsibility, 18, buy as much quality-level term life insurance as you can….
In March 2020, school systems were ill-prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic’s mandates for masks, online learning, and closure… especially schools serving high numbers of children receiving free and reduced lunch and Title I services. Title I services include but are not limited to literacy programs to ensure children…
Yesterday I took my mother to Verizon and I noticed that next door there was a Harold’s.(Chicken Shack) I couldn’t believe my eyes! So you know I went in there to make sure it was what it said it was. And to my culture-starved eyes appeared my…