Black History Month/Valentine’s Day Mash-up

February 26, 2017

We’ve just ended the month of Black history and Valentine’s Day and rather than add to the discussion about the atrocities of slavery or the commercialized list of ways to love your loved one, I wanted to reflect on something different. Why not marry the two topics in a discussion of how enslaved people expressed […]

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“Need Has No Season”

December 19, 2016

It’s the time for giving (so everyone says) and I felt like writing, so I decided to share a personal experience that encapsulates the title of this post, which is actually a Salvation Army motto: some people are in serious need all year round, not only at Christmas. Here’s my story….  A few Christmases ago, I gave myself […]

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