Tis The Season To Share Gift Ideas & Reading Suggestions

 If you are in need of a last minute Christmas or Kwanzaa gift or just want a little something for yourself, I invite you to consider ordering the latest copy of Midnight & Indigo:Celebrating Black Female Writers (Issue #3).  You can order a copy (or copies) directly from their website or Amazon.  They also showcase stories and essays on their website.

Plus, if you are interested in reading more of my fiction, I have a short story featured in Midnight & Indigo’s latest edition.  My story “The Easter Speech” is a bitter-sweet glimpse of the bond between a little boy and his grandmother and how the grandmother’s love serves as an anchor in the little boy’s life.  

If you get a chance to read “The Easter Speech” please feel free to come back here and share your thoughts about it with me. 

I'M BACK!!!

I know it's been a while since I touched base here. All I can say is, several years ago, social
media’s rise in popularity blew in like a hurricane and left the blogging world in pieces. Like a lot of my old blogging buddies, I abandoned my post (s) and moved elsewhere. Typically, these days you can find me on Facebook and Goodreads, but thus far I’ve held off on jumping aboard Twitter, Instagram and the like.  I mean really, who has the time and energy for all of that, particularly if you have any interest in living a real life (and not a social media contrived one)?

In any case, I’d still like to use this platform to share my work and perhaps, occasionally, my interests, concerns and warped

sense of humor. So, allow me to start with some links to my most recent publications.

In April of this year, Mississippi Folklife published

Forgotten Images of An Invisible Man: Resurrecting the Art and Memory of Photographer TC Reese,  an essay I wrote about

my uncle, a black photographer with MS and TN roots.

If you've enjoyed my fiction in the past, or if you are new to my fiction and are

interested in a sampling, check out my short story “The Inheritance”  that was recently (June 3, 2018) featured in The Root.

As always, feel free to share you thoughts about the material in the comments section.  I do have one more link to share, but I think I will save it for my next post.