To Thee I Will Sing: No Justice, No Peace.

Dear Friends and Readers, I want to thank you for reading my blog over the past year. I started it in late Oct/November 2013 and I am quickly approaching 1,000 readers. I didn’t really know how many people would follow me so I am startled by the number of “my followers” and  every time I…

Race Based Traumatic Stress

The see-saw, existential experience of being Black in America continues to throw me up and down, to and fro…..like I am on a little tug boat on a stormy sea.  The recent events in #ferguson have shook me and I find it deeply disturbing that an African American unarmed teen could be shot and killed…