On this holiday last year, I participated in a community service project as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service celebration on campus. I vividly remember the frigid temperatures in Asheville that day and how, no matter the layers I wore, I still felt numbness in my feet and hands after a morning of working outside… Read More Leading Boldly, with a Servant’s Heart
Goooooooooooooooooooood Wednesday, my new listeners! This is DJ Lady Luck, Ms. Lucretia King’s “Wednesday alter ego” – her musical messenger of hope, of dreams, of lessons learned, of social commentary, of fresh sounds to explore! I know she briefly mentioned me in a post last year titled “What’s Your Security Blanket?!” And let’s just say, I’ve been around long… Read More DJ Lady Luck Presents… Yuna
*Warning: This is one of my classic “lengthy” posts, something I intend to curtail with the use of an updated blog schedule and writing outline in 2017. But for today, it is what it is – because we are still in 2016. So, please choose to read this how and when you want. I suggest doing so while sitting… Read More 2016: A Year of Struggling for Hope, Letting Go, and Praying for Time
It’s been just over six months since my last post, and – as usual – too much has happened in between then and now to try to summarize those events or my thoughts, reactions, and responses to them all. However, I couldn’t let 2016 close out with just one post on the books, so here goes: “Someday… Read More Someday at Christmas…
While attending a networking social on Thursday, I blindly volunteered to be a Saturday substitute reader for MARRS – Mountain Area Radio Reading Service of Asheville, NC, a radio reading service for individuals who are blind, visually or print impaired. Volunteers of this nonprofit read local news and events from a number of newspapers and weekly… Read More Blindly Entering A New Frontier – MARRS
I had purchased this book over six months ago and let it linger on the lower shelf of an end table until last month. In a fit of purging and “clearing out” the old or unused to make space for the new – new ideas, new projects, new perspectives to fill the new freedom I’d been… Read More Book of the Month: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
“The hair is the most elevated point of your body, which means it is the closest to the divine. … Because the hair is the closest thing to the heavens, communication from the gods and spirits was thought to pass through the hair to get to the soul.” – from page 4 of Hair Story: Untangling… Read More I Am Not My Hair… Well, Not as Much as Before
Today marks the start of a new season in the year – autumn! And for me, this month marks the start of a new season in my life – one filled with an extended stretch of free time and reborn creativity in the words, crafts, images, and ideas I generate! But, in an effort to… Read More Small Victories
As you all know, prolific reading makes you a better writer. So, in addition to realizing my dream of becoming a published writer, another one of the challenges I gave myself at the start of 2015 was to bring my inner “bookworm” back to life. To do that, I established a Goodreads account last weekend… Read More Book of the Month: Hair Story by Ayana D. Byrd & Lori L. Tharps
January is a month full of major life milestones for me, and as I take time to reflect on what has happened in January 2015, I can’t help but also look back over all the other “fresh starts” I’ve made at the beginning of years past! Ever the “eager beaver,” I try to get my wheels in… Read More A Month of Milestones
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