Shay For the past eleven years, I have felt as if I were living in some type of social experiment. What happens when you take a Black woman from a very large, urban and diverse city and stick her in a small, rural and homogenous state? Does she assimilate? Does she lose it? What happens? In …
This week has been an emotional ball breaker for me; I’ve been stuffing down my feelings and not wanting to give words to what I was feeling for fear of being seen as a whiner. The danger in writing and talking about race so often is that after a while people stop listening; they truly …
I recently made the decision a number of months ago to not write at length about my personal life or family. This decision came after discovering that the number of local folks reading this blog had grown, and while I am a big-mouth in general, being a big-mouth in a small town can be embarrassing. …