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Holiday Delight: Alvin Ailey’s Virtual Season!
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Not’cho Grandma’s Sweet Potato Pie
My mother was the best cook and baker. Unfortunately, she didn’t write down her recipes. She made everything from memory and taste. I’ve spent most of my adult life trying to identify and replicate some of food-memories that made my taste buds sing. Now that I’m focused on removing sugar from my diet, replicating my Mom’s dishes flavor for flavor is even further out of reach. About fifteen years ago, I asked my paternal Grandma to share her Sweet Potato Pie recipe. She also cooked by taste and feel. So what she rambled off to me on the phone was basically a round about suggestion on how she begins to get…
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Not’cho Mama’s Banana Pudding
Lockdown and a sweet tooth At the beginning of Covid-19 shutdown, I stocked my cupboards like most folks. Baking and desert items were high priority. Two boxes of Nilla wafers somehow made it in the grocery cart of emergency foods. At the time, making homemade banana pudding sounded like amazing self-love. One of those boxes disappeared as snacks and the other just got used for what it was intended. But it took some inspiration. I had been sick off and on for many months before I was diagnosed with diabetes in July. I immediately thought I would throw away everything in my house that contained sugar but that would’ve basically…
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Not’cho Grandma’s Sweet Potato Pie
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Discussion Questions: Marriage & Relationship, Part 3
Join me Tuesday, November 17, 2020 for Part 3 of the Marriage & Relationship: Modern Conflicts vs. Biblical Principles virtual study. We will explore the marriage of Adam/Adamah & Chavah/Eve and the relationship between Man/Woman and Human/Spirit. Text: Genesis 1-5, Revelation 22 Discussion Questions What are your ideas of manhood and womanhood? When you think of two people joining in marriage, what does that represent to you? Do you see husband and wife as an equal partnership or as an hierarchal relationship? What is your interpretation of the following verses? The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.…
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Marriage & Relationship: Modern Conflicts vs. Biblical Principles, Part 3
Join me Tuesday, November 17, 2020 for Part 3 of the Marriage & Relationships: Modern Conflicts vs. Biblical Principles virtual study. We will explore the marriage of Adam/Adamah & Chavah/Eve and the relationship between Man/Woman and Human/Spirit. Text: Genesis 1-5, Revelation 22 Discussion questions will be posted in advance of the Zoom call. Feel free to add any questions you may want to discuss to this post or the Discussion Question post. Zoom Meeting Details Topic: Marriage & Relationship: Modern Conflicts vs. Biblical Principles, Part 3 Time: Nov 17, 2020 07:30-9:30 AM Mountain Time (US and Canada) Scheduled for this time every 2 weeks on Tue, until Feb 23, 2021,…
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IG Live Reading @UrbanExpo
The poems read were selected from Clichés: A Life in Verse, Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace, and I AM Woman: Experiences of Black Womanhood. All the books are available for order in my store and on Amazon.com (quicker with discounts).
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Virtual Phoenix Urban Expo – TODAY
Hi join me today at the Virtual Urban Expo 2020 by Greater Phoenix Urban League Young Professionals – Saturday, November 14, 2020! Go To Event Page Hi Everyone – this Hopin event will begins at 10:00am Mountain Time and goes until 3:00pm on Saturday, November 14, 2020. Join me! Chat. Order. Enjoy the speakers. When it’s time, you can join the event by going to the event page.
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Song & Verse: I just wanna live by Keedron Bryant
My heart. Gospel remix I just wanna liveGod protect me I’m a young black manDoing all that I can (Can)To standOh, but when I look aroundAnd I see what’s being doneTo my kind (Kind) Every day (Day)I’m being hunted as preyMy people don’t want no troubleWe’ve had enough struggle I just wanna liveGod protect me(Just stay right by my side)I just wanna liveGod protect me(Just stay right by my side) So many thoughts in my head (Head)Will I live? Or will I end up dead? (Dead, dead)It’s an unequal sequelNo matter where I beThere’s no place safe for me (Me, me, me)Oh, oh, oh-ohI’m not asking for too muchSo Lord,…
