January 9, 2015 Factoids (extracted from imdb.com; Pictures and Photos from Cabin in the Sky): A 1943 film version of the Broadway Musical of the same name Directed by Vincente Minnelli (father of Liza Minnelli) Cast: Ethel Waters, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Mantan Moreland, Bill Bailey, Butterfly McQueen, and others … More A Look Back at “Cabin in the Sky”
NOTE: This piece is the first of a series of Essays on Race. I wrote it in the spring of 2014 and, obviously, a lot has happened in the sphere of race relations since then. Ferguson. Staten Island. The callous murder of a 12-year-old black child. Ad nauseum. I have to stand up, speak up—for … More Race and Community: Lessons from a Black Woman from Baltimore
December 25, 2014-January 7, 2015 On Christmas morning, a half hour before Noon, I looked up to the Sky, as I often do, And saw the Moon Chasing the Sun. The Moon was riding across the Sky on a low cloud fast-moving toward the Sun, which peeked from a higher, but still, cloud. Not believing … More A Christmas Sighting
December 24, 2014 I fought so hard not to get sucked in to the World-Wide Web that spins and spins. A web of Truth, of Lies and Sin. A web of Love and Hate and Lust; Pain and Suffering imagined and just. Welcome to The 21st Century Tower of Babel. Fools and Idiots, Bards and … More The World-Wide Web
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2015! For the first time in my life, I am excited to start a New Year. No fears and worries that this year will be just like the last. No resolutions, broken the minute I write them down. Just a hope and a dream. A promise only to myself, to … More Ringing in the New Year 2015
Lately, I’ve been thinking about my favorite toys from childhood and how they have shaped my life. I grew up in the 1950s. My first five years of life were spent with my parents in a small one-bedroom apartment in West Baltimore, on Division Street. The building had been converted from a Catholic convent in … More Christmas Past: The Toys I Played With—And How They Shaped Me
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