Category Archives: Reading
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage (1997, 224 pages) Pearl Cleage packed her debut novel with fierce love for community, loyalty, purposeful living, intentional mentoring, self-care, and a whole lot of Black Girl Magic before we’d given … Continue reading
Real Life Rants
RANT to difficult to find addresses. Can’t we please have the numbers in addresses visible and large enough to be read from the street? Any building being constructed and all future buildings should include the address in a designated place. Looking … Continue reading
See a Live Show
For a fun date night, get tickets to a holiday play, musical, or ballet. While you’re at it, purchase additional tickets to gift to friends and family. Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing … Continue reading
Rave : Little act’s Thoughtfulness
RAVE to the radio stations that don’t play Christmas music until after Thanksgiving. It is great listening to music that does not add to the “noise” of the very early/dominating commercialism of Christmas. It feels like a big loss when Halloween … Continue reading
Linden Hills
Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor (1985, 304 pages) Linden Hills, like Bailey’s Café, is yet another complex book that I would not put in the “easy-to-read” category. I read this book over 20 years ago. I never forgot how wonderful, haunting, vivid, and compelling … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 