Stories of Reflection
A collection of stories reflecting on some of life’s most impactful experiences.
Listen, I absolutely knew today would happen. Listening to Trump over the past few years, months, weeks and days, especially after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the election, I knew this would happen. As ...
I am coming to terms with what some of you know. Grief doesn’t have an end date. You might have seen/heard versions of this. But after seven years, it hits fresh and new ...
“Can you think of an experience when you felt unwelcome, or that you didn’t belong? What was the situation? What did you perceive the signals to be? How did that make you feel?” This is ...
My writing has been blocked for the past couple of months. Some of it has been due to life circumstances. I’ve had so much going on, with a lot of really meaningful work happening at ...
October 17, 2020 On a beautiful and crisp Saturday afternoon, I was relaxing after a busy morning of cleaning, doing laundry, getting groceries, and doing yard work. Tired, I lied down onto the couch to ...
I couldn’t sleep last night. Three days ago, Jacob Blake was shot. And as you know by now, I need time to process things when Black people get shot or killed by police. Because I ...
A Southern Boy and God We grew up next to a dirt road. God was in the three churches that lined Church Street. First the Baptist. Then the Presbyterian at the other end of the ...
Today, I read a wonderful, wise and loving farewell – and admonishment – from Rep. John Lewis. He spoke to all of us about what we need to do from here, for this nation to ...
I’ve decided to talk about things as they occur to me, rather than subject you to a chronological slide show like our parents’ friends used to bore us with (“… and here’s another shot of ...
We walked for miles in every Southern city we visited. Urban walking. We wore jeans and sneakers. Sidewalks. Paved park paths. Asphalt. Cement. Church to parsonage to park to museum to memorial. We chose centrally-located ...
