My soul is giddy with technology glee. Very giddy. That’s because I discovered the application iTalk for my iPhone. It is a free application — but it can be upgraded to the premium version for only $4.99. There is a very small, unobtrusive ad at the bottom on the free version.
This application is about the [...]
I just finished the very interesting book Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years. It is about Sadie and Bessie Delany, two Negro women who came from a prominent Negro family in North Carolina. They became career women and racial pioneers: Sadie, the first African American woman to teach domestic science (home economics) [...]
What happens when an 82 year-old mother, a younger sister, and a husband is coerced . . . er . . . encouraged to make a video to wish far away family members a Merry Christmas? This is what you get . . .
Travel back in time with me circa the mid 1960s. My father, who normally had his pictures processed as 35 mm slides, came home with a new invention. (For my sarcastic children who may be reading this blog, yes, we had electricity and, yes, we had indoor plumbing at the time . . .) This [...]
I recently came across this quote by William Zinser, author of On Writing Well. Said he, “There’s not much to be said about the period, except that most writers don’t reach it soon enough.”
I mentally reviewed my writing. Each word is a precious child that I cling to forever and ever. Pull out my four-generation [...]