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Writing gives me that outlet I need to get recognized and show my passion for it.
After writing a four-hundred and four-page novel and following with a mini-novel, I have come into a circle of like-minded friends in Helium.

Bay Minette has just been published,

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Politics, News & Issues > US Economy Assessing the issue of homelessness in the USA: 2 of 23

The homeless has a new face added to it today. It's not just about the Alcoholic, the bag lady or the veteran. It's about you and me, and the average Joe considering the interest rates homeowners must endure. America's economy, the crude oil prices and medical expenses are all contributors to the downfall of this great natio...
Society & Lifestyle > Racism We can unlearn prejudice: 12 of 38

The fabric of Black America is coming apart at the seams……..and it’s all our fault. Not because of the old time rhetoric of ‘I can’t advance because they (white America) don’t want me to, or I was qualified for the job and they gave it to one of their own, no it’s because of acting...
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Pain in life: 22 of 57

While the conversation between Lara and Patricia continued heatedly, a few blocks away, Cindy was preparing to go to dinner and to the prom with Boyd Jamison. Boyd,coming from parents of very modest means, did not have a car, nor did he know how to drive for that matter. Cindy had borrowed her father's 1975 black Cadillac Br...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Workplace horror stories: 13 of 32

My horror story is not your typical story that one is lead to believe. My story started over a year ago. One of our top accounts,who I will call Mary, warned me. She said, "Are you still trying to promote your book?" I replied, "Yes, I am." She said, "That's good. Because if you aren't, then I suggest y...
Arts & Humanities > 20th & 21st Century US History Living history: The Civil Rights movement through my eyes: 6 of 12

To this day it has been exactly forty years since the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr.,on April 4,1968, and the actions of The Civil Rights Movement has barely changed the hearts and minds of most of America.I was fourteen years old when I observed my mother and father's reaction when he was killed. I fe...
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Morality in politics: 3 of 6

What would you think if you discovered your rights were being taken away from you in plain sight? That's what is happening in America today. Voting rights are being questioned by the political system that was supposed to be in place by and for the people. But who are those people? The middle class? The poor? What I'm about t...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Remembering my childhood: 28 of 55

Back during the time of my childhood, one could say that our neighborhood was "exclusively" a village. In 1959, I was five years old. My sisters and brothers were the proverbial "baby boomer's and I can remember when the threat of WW-III was looming over our heads. In my neighborhood, there was no where to hide. No shelters,...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Vacations: 14 of 25

Summer for me, is like a sad, misty feeling as if it will never come again. It is my favorite time of the year, although to most, they complain wishing it was winter and when winter arrives, they complain and wish for summer again. Then it starts all over. You can never please everyone at one time. When I was a child, we nev...
Sciences > Surgery Neurosurgery from the patient's perspective: 4 of 7

My body had a mind of it's own. It did what it wanted to do, especially on it's left side. The football size length of our aesthetically white hallways of my workplace posed a problem for me. I felt like Atlas, holding up the world each time I took a personal break from my safe, comfortable customer service chair, leaning my...
Religion & Spirituality > Christian Beliefs & Culture Putting God first in your life: 55 of 72

As a very young woman, I leaned on my peers for life's' experiences,(running around getting tea totaled, driving drunk, smoking, cursing and swearing, partying and in general, just being stupid which could have led me up into a tragic situation. At one point, I leaned towards my own understanding and not the FATHER"S. But li...