Archive for September, 2009
Where are all the black people?
“Where are all the black people?”
That’s what National Park Ranger Shelton Johnson has been asking for many years. Ranger Johnson has worked for the National Park Service for more than 20 years, spent mostly at Yosemite. And in those years he’s seen so few blacks that he refers to black visitors as ‘a sighting.’
When I [...]
Tip Sheets: Call for Ideas
This blog, 17Seeds, is all about spreading ideas that lead to biblically-based racial reconciliation. Toward that end, I formed the goal to create 17 tip sheets. So far I’ve only written four. Two more are in the works, but I’ve run out of ideas.
This is where you step in, with your cape waving artistically in [...]
Remembering Four Little Girls
One Sunday morning in Birmingham 46 years ago a bomb took the lives of four little girls. It was September 15, 1963. The girls, all under the age of 15, were part of a church youth day celebration at Sixteenth Street Baptist. The sermon that morning: The Love That Forgives.
The blast shook the community, the [...]
Closer to the Truth?
My family moved to Greensboro, North Carolina in the winter of 2003. My time was divided between being a mom to two young children, a kindergartner and an infant, and getting a small at-home Web design business off the ground.
In my spare mements, I was writing my second novel. To say the least I was [...]
People of Walmart
When I think of Wal-Mart, I think of a melting pot. No, I’m not talking about a plug-in appliance you’d find on aisle 19. I’m talking about the proverbial mixing of various bits of this and that to create something new and interesting. Something that’s pleasing to the eye and the palette.
Not all of my [...]
