Creative Writing
African Americans and Cancer: The ugly truth
Welcome to the second entry in my series: African Americans and Cancer: The ugly truth. This narrative follows the first subtopic: Dispelling Myths. What better to follow myth than truth? My passion, perspective, and guided expertise is fueled by my own cancer survival which convinced me that medical racial disparities exist because both cancer and […]
Great to be “GRATEFUL”
grate·ful [greyt-fuhl] adjective warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help. expressing or actuated by gratitude: a grateful letter. pleasing to the mind or senses; agreeable or welcome; refreshing: a grateful breeze. My emotions have been extraordinarily unpredictable this past month. Without sounding like a […]
“Why don’t you make it a rose?”
This is a re-blog of a 2011 post. I needed to be reminded of my own words! So, I’m standing in the check-out line at Publix: my favorite grocer of southern region fame. A slender, young black child with a head full of twisted knots observes my left wrist and blurts, ” I like your […]
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated: Celebrating 70 Years of Timeless Service
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated Gamma Rho Omega Chapter, Inc. Platinum and Pearls: Celebrating 70 Years of Timeless Serves The Gamma Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated celebrated seven decades of contributions to the Jacksonville community on Saturday, August 25, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency on East Coastline Drive. More than 300 […]
The Provocative 32 Hygiene-Stroke
I like doing it in the morning. It has emerged as a sensual ritual since the deciduous death of my sexy, thirty-two, adult soldiers. Most stand upright and salute when I smile like victors of a daily battle with debris. I am sole leader of a decay-prevention platoon who boldly confronts caffeine stains; random, […]
The N.B. Forrest Rebel Brigade Reunion
The occasion of the Nathan B. Forrest Rebel Brigade Band Reunion was held last evening, June 21, 2014 at the Sheraton Hotel (Deer Creek) in Jacksonville, Florida @ 7:00 p.m. It was a culmination of years of murmurs, suggests, ideas, non-ideas, and finally, band members Russ Carpenter and Leonor Diaz took the helm as leaders […]
Penny Dickerson 