Musings of an Editor, Writer, and Storyteller

What a year 2020 has been. Like millions of others I'm looking forward to seeing a different year. While I'd prefer to go back a few...

Even though some literary purists still look down on self-published authors, I'm happy that these authors' dreams aren't depende...

Right now my kids are fast asleep and finally have some highly coveted "me time." So I decided to visit my neglected blog to let i...

This songs fits my mood perfectly today.

Yesterday my uncle passed away in Ferriday, Louisiana. Louis Evans. We called him Mane. After spending seven months suspended in a...

Interesting title, isn't it? What does it mean? If you regularly peruse USAJobs in search of  a federal job, then this time may mean...

Around 2pm today, I was sitting at my desk and feeling a bit sluggish after having not gotten much sleep last night. I decided to take a qui...

My friend texted me this morning that a Baton Rouge man's shooting was "hard to watch." I didn't know what she was talking...

It's Sunday night. I'm at the laptop with two class assignments due by 11:59 p.m. As I write this post the time is 7:27 p.m. Most ...

Some years back I wrote a blog post on the black romance magazines . It was an ode to my hormonal teenage years when I desperately sought ...