Learning from Spain
I recently returned from my first visit to Spain and realized there is so much we as Americans can learn from the Spanish. They have done a lot of things right, and we should copy them! Humanity has...
View ArticleOff The Rails
I first learned to play pool at the Glenville YMCA when I was fourteen. There were hours the kids could shoot and other hours the counselors had the table. They never let the younger people shoot when...
View ArticleA Gram of Determination
In late September as I rounded the corner of a sandy walking path at Mentor Headlands Preserve, a flash of orange and black hovering in green vegetation caught my eye. I stopped to observe and was...
View ArticleTrekking Through Autumn
One of the lingering benefits of COVID is that our initial seclusion-of-a-sort led us outside. As the need for limited activities lingered on (and on) we decided to see some of our city and county...
View ArticleMy Short Music Career
(This is the fourth of my excerpts from my memoir, My Life In The Sunshine.) My musical journey began at the tender age of five years old. My mother sent me to learn piano from Mrs. Lambright who lived...
View ArticleCuba! The land where time stands still, but its people keep it moving.
Many of my trips are determined by countries that represent the African diaspora or a part of Africa itself. I’ve visited Jamaica (about sixteen times-love that place), Bahamas; Salvador de Bahia,...
View ArticleBack To The Beginning
Sometime in the 1980s, I purchased a painting depicting the Ethiopians of Africa as they emerged from Italy’s occupation. I knew Ethiopia as the home of Lucy, one of the oldest hominins, dating back...
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