Memoir The Bible: A Review 26 Dec 201821 Apr 2022 My Bible Story It was time. After the Dhammapada, Qu'ran, Book of Mormon, Bhagavad Gita, and the Tao te Ching, I figured it was time to take on the big…
Memoir… Retention 22 Dec 201825 Jul 2021 I begin the semester with a plea, a sermon, a prophecy: "Y'all are adult students. Stuff happens. Stuff is going to happen. People will get sick, bosses will work you…
history… Families Belong Together: Fayetteville 18 Jun 2018 Cape Fear Indivisible held its rally yesterday at the Market House in downtown Fayetteville, North Carolina. The site of the rally itself, built in the 1830s, is not without controversy.…
Poetry for future generations: a poem 1 Jun 201825 Jul 2021 A tritina is a poem made up of three, three-line stanzas with an ending line. The end word of each line in the first stanza becomes the end word of…
Genealogy… Why I Don’t Respect the Confederate Legacy 8 Mar 201825 Jul 2021 Preface I love the South. I also hate the South. I am descended from at least thirteen ancestors who fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Many Americans…
Sports The Hornets Nickname: A Brief History 4 Mar 201827 Jul 2021 I was born in 1985 in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1988, the Charlotte Hornets, an NBA franchise, began playing basketball at the Charlotte Coliseum. My mom, an avid sports fan,…
Teaching A Letter to My Students (circa 2010) 14 Feb 201826 Jul 2021 I maintained a blog on Open Salon when I was a high school teacher from 2008 to 2011 (when I was laid off). It’s gone now because Salon decided to ax the…
Poetry Prayer: A Poem 9 Feb 201826 Jul 2021 Oh god give me organ that smells like carpet, a thousand cotton-treading feet and eyes that can’t stay open, vestments and breathing and my mother’s hand, mother’s hand, black mother,…
Genealogy The Murder of Joseph H. James: Part II 3 Feb 20188 Jul 2021 When I was in the gym the other morning I saw a commercial for Ancestry.com. Fancy graphics and promises of using your DNA to discover, in the case of the…
Genealogy The Murder of Joseph H. James: Part I 1 Feb 201826 Jul 2021 Well, it's time for another round of weird stories from my father's side of the family. My last name, like LeBron's, is James - though that's where the similarities end…
An Unhappy Consciousness 