Archive for March, 2008
A Snack Break
Okay, let’s take a break. It may surprise some of you but I can be a fun person. I don’t always talk/think/blog about racial stuff. Sometimes I take a snack break, for crying out loud.
Check out my guest blog spot at Tyora Moody’s blog, The Cookie Aisle, http://www.cookieaisle.com.
Thanks, Ty. It was super fun writing that [...]
Go back to the good ole days
I’m in love with machinery. I know I’m not quite what most folks expect from a black girl from the sticks of northeastern North Carolina.
As a kid, I devoured any issue of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics I found in the school library. While everybody else wanted me to go to ECU and [...]
Junk Drawer Gospel
I’ve got the entire easter message, yes, the whole gospel … in my junk drawer. Everything you need to know about Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection is in that drawer. Yes, I know what that Robert guy said, ‘All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten.’ But he hasn’t seen my junk drawer.
Yep, [...]
Pickles and Cheese and Hating Your Neighbor
The following was written in 2007.
Today a trip to the fridge took me back more than three decades. As I reached for the sliced cheese and bread to make my four-year-old’s lunch, I glanced at a jar of sweet pickle relish and in a blink I was back at the Rexall Drug counter in Edenton.
The [...]
