Month: October 2016

  • In Good Conscience

    In Good Conscience

    Illustration from thyblackman.com I have intentionally stayed off the subject of politics as the race for the Presidency has gotten strange, lurid even.  This divisive race is separating the entire nation notwithstanding the fact that there are several other divisive issues that have compounded the already muddy water.   I don’t think that anyone can…

  • From Back in the Day . . .

    From Back in the Day . . .

    When I was a kid, my grandmother had a friend.  She was a play-aunt that we visited periodically. Her name was Glennie and she was a lovely brown woman with laughing eyes, a hearty laugh and salt/pepper hair.   One evening a dinner party was planned and my mom, grandmother and two younger brothers went…