Archive for January, 2009

• Grandmas. You Gotta love Them!

  Sunday, January 11th, 2009

  Most African Americans are a mixture of many races. My family is no exception. My maternal Grandmother was African American, American Indian (Tuscarora), and Chinese. She was short, thin, wiry, and had waist length hair. She was very quiet and even as a child I realized there were some strange ways about her. She was [...]

• What every Woman Should Know

  Sunday, January 11th, 2009

  The older I get , the more I look at today’s world and wonder what went wrong.  In the day of free sexual freedoms, some women feel this means having the right to bring children in the world. Where they and their children will be abused by immature, worthless men, who can’t or wont live [...]

• Southern Love 60′s Style

  Friday, January 9th, 2009

  I never throw anything away. I am a pack rat and its genetics passed on from my mother. She would find things in stores and bring them home even if no one in our house could use it. Case in point. There were some dresses she brought home after shopping one day. They were too [...]

• Retirement is for the birds

  Friday, January 9th, 2009

  I can’t believe it! This March it will be five years since I stopped struggling out of bed at 9:45pm to get to work at 11:00pm. No more working long, cold nights on wards poorly staffed while being underpaid and under appreciated. But I miss it and would give up fighting Medicare for everything I [...]

• The strange twist in life’s Journey

  Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

  My mother graduated high school and the following year I was born. There went her dreams of becoming an English teacher. For years I heard about those dreams and felt her regret coming from every pore. My mom worked at many jobs always striving to do the best work that can be done. I can [...]