history… Trouble at Bragg 29 Jun 202019 Dec 2023 Night of Terror Early in the morning of 6 August 1941, 500 Black soldiers lay on the ground of the prison yard at Fort Bragg. For five hours they were…
Genealogy Inheritance: Clotile’s Story 1 Dec 20198 Jul 2021 Home Movie There's a home movie from 1964 which begins with Christmas scenes of children playing with toys in grainy but vivid color. Without warning, at about the ten-second mark,…
activism… Diary of the Nazi Years 1 Jun 201912 May 2024 I'm reading the 1933-1945 diaries of Victor Klemperer, a German academic of Jewish descent. Though a Christian for practical purposes, Klemperer's "ethnic" Judaism and his detailed, personal writing make his…
Poetry transit: a poem 27 Dec 201825 Jul 2021 "Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar."* ~ Gloria Anzaldúa -------------------------------------- america is full of ancient children who spit their cage-earned cough on our meticulous brick sidewalks, who…
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 201828 Mar 2023 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,…
An Unhappy Consciousness 