BIRTH of a NARRATIVE I continue to create because writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind. Alice Childress Margo, the hypersensitive, obtuse, and decidedly obnoxious antagonist of Unfinished Business: A Celebration of Black Life,

COMMITMENT: CHANCE, CHOICE, or the ROAD not TAKEN You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt   I’m in a committed relationship! I’ve

MY THIRD ACT  I need to keep thinking and analyzing, and have that transformed onto a piece of paper. Besides, if we as African American women don’t write our own books, then other folks will continue to define us. Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole January 2nd, 2017  Greetings:  Happy New Yea

AND STILL I WRITE!  You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt This edition of my quarterly electronic newsletter holds the distinction of bein