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Always There Are the Children
Something devastating is happening, a bone-chilling, frightening thing. The children are dying. In this year alone, I have learned of the deaths of four young people, three of them children under 25 years old. All of them were from people I know; they were firstborns, the first fruits of their mother’s wombs. It has made… Continue reading
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Legacy
Have you ever sat back to consider that the lives your parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles lived is a form of history? The world they grew up in is a different world than the one we are living in today. Even as recent as the 70s and 80s. That world no longer exists. I am… Continue reading
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Unapologetically You
I am no longer doing anything uncomfortable to make others comfortable. Yesterday, I turned 36, and you would think this is a lesson I’ve learned by now. But Paschal’s restaurant was the straw that broke the camel’s back. It upset me for a number of reasons. But first, a little history. I chose Paschal’s because… Continue reading
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Blood Line
My nephew has my birthmark on his chest. My face has my mother’s nose, and my smile is etched with my father’s teeth. I interact with the world as if on my own. It never occurs to me that I swing my arms like my Aunt. Or that the decisions I make may have already… Continue reading
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