First posted August 3, 2016. First, let me share with you the process I go through to realize I want to write a blog because I do not have a “blog urge” that often. Usually, this process starts with a very subtle, almost unnoticed “noticing.” That is how this blog started some time ago. It started with a noticing about Memorial Day – nothing big – just a little tickling in my brain. At first, I noticed that something had changed about Memorial Day. When I was a child, Memoria

First posted June 29, 2015. Can you believe that Bill O’Reilly actually said (I saw it! I heard it!) that – and I paraphrase – we no longer have a problem with racism in this country? He went on to say that there may be some (a few) deranged people who are racists and racism is no longer a systemic problem. Shouldn’t there be some kind of awareness or sanity test that is required if people are going to speak as “authorities” on television? Of course not! This is America and a

First posted May 26, 2015. I have such fond memories of Memorial Day when I was a child. It was always a family day when the extended family would get together for a peaceful quiet day of being together and “remembering.” It wasn’t a big whoop-de-do day like the Fourth of July with hoopla, drums and fireworks. It was always a quiet day to remember all who had gone before us and to show our gratitude for everything those who had gone before had given us including our lives. We

First posted December 13, 2014. Living out in the country as we do, we have fallen into the habit of keeping in touch with the world by...

First posted September 8, 2014. I am sick and tired of hearing one black man after another who is successful in the current culture say...

First posted September 2, 2014. Racism Revisited – Alive and Well I was recently asked by one of “my kids,” a sixteen-year-old high school student in Germany who had to do a term paper on Martin Luther King, to share my experience of that time with her. This is how I responded to her questions. I thought you might find it interesting. Dear Annika – I am on a plane taking off from Las Vegas. We have been out here meeting with a friend of mine whose cancer has returned and we a

First posted May 17, 2014. TWO FRIENDS WERE SENT TO JAIL TODAY FOR IN THE COURTS THERE WAS NO WAY FOR JUSTICE TO BE SERVED. Anne Wilson...