We travel our life paths, picking up experience, finding teachers and lessons everywhere. And sometimes if we have been attentive to the lessons they pay off in unexpected ways. That is part of the story of my father getting admitted to the University of Chicago after the end of […]
This weekend after finding excuse after excuse not to watch the recently released documentary Cries for Syria my husband put it on the television telling me I had to see it. I watched, I cried, I watched, I cried. As the Trump regime soap opera goes on and jokes are […]
Today I’m turning my page over to three cogent voices on the assault on our art, culture and communities that is proposed in the new budget. . First Daphne Muse is from a writer, social commentator and poet who has allowed me to share an important letter she wrote on the […]
I always have problems answering the question of what poet or poets most influence me. In what way? In what period of my life? Living or ancestor? Yet when one of them passes I am deeply aware of how profound their influence was and is. Mari Evans is one such […]
A question that I often hear these days is “how did we get here?” Here politically in this country, here individually in our lives, here globally looking at the millions of families who flee war, face famine. Yet the line from there to here only needs a look at the […]
The news seems to be such a flexible subject these days. North/East/South/West which direction distorts the best? Today I offer my take on the news informed by the African honey bees’ transcontinental story. As you may know, a Brazilian geneticist decided to breed hard-working African bees with mild mannered and […]
race definitions when i was a child race was brought to me in mouthfuls of differences and spit when i was a child there were the negroid the asiatic and the caucasian races and sometimes there were the semites to define the race of arab and jew […]
If you go to any bookstore, independent or chain, it will seem as if you are inundated with magazine choices. But often the best magazines cannot be found on those shelves. Caribbean Interview is an important magazine that needs to read, looked at and enjoyed with its mix of visual […]
It has been suggested that the Trump regime wants to limit the counter-terrorism investigations to “Islamic Terrorism” and not worry about domestic terrorism. This being planned in face of the fact that most acts on USA soil have been the result of home-grown American terrorists, mostly white and mostly Christian. […]
All of us are a product of our families and communities, and also, importantly the people we encounter throughout our lives, the ones who make us see a little more, think a little differently, demand that we stretch our awareness and grow. I have been unusually blessed in this area. […]
