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Time to Break Up—and Let the Addictions Go
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The holidays barely have time to breathe before they’re replaced—nearly stomped out—as retailers race toward the next sale. One celebration blends into the next until you’re not quite sure what season you’re in anymore. You didn’t imagine it. But one thing is certain, they play on your addictions. Addictions occur also
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Sink or Swim: Bayou Lessons in Resilience
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When it came to sink or swim in the Louisiana bayou, I wasn’t sure if it was a racial, gender, or generational thing? But — it was a story I often heard from older African American men who shared this childhood memory. It goes like this: A father or an older
Where Have All Our Colors Gone?
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Where have all our colors gone? Cue the 1960s song Where Have All Our Flowers Gone by Peter, Paul and Mary… Where have all our colors gone, long time passing? Where have all our colors gone, long time ago?… Oh when will they ever learn, oh when will they ever learn?
Resolve or Regret: Rethinking Your New Year Resolutions
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Time, and time again, we decide this time we’re gonna beat time, and accomplish all of our New Year resolutions. But in reality, we’re only setting ourselves up for failure—once more. As we inch closer to each new year, we welcome it with hopefulness. Yet at the same time, our heart
Head on the Chopping Block: Surviving Without Team Support
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Have you ever had that dream—or perhaps, that nightmare—where you’re standing side by side with your coworkers, and then everyone takes one step backwards, and you don’t realize it? And you’re left to face the boss—alone, your head on the chopping block? Or has it already become a reality? Either way,
Crying over Spilled Milk: Turning Regret into Growth
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Crying over spilled milk IS a waste of your energy. I said it—but it needed to be said. Of course, we’re all guilty of doing it. But the one thing we have to accept is that we can either clean it up or spend time gazing at it lying there and
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Brain Fog to Laser Focus: Regaining Clarity in Work and Life
When a last bout with Covid ended, I worried that so had my career. I could no longer think in straight lines, and I needed my analytic conscious to complete tasks. I could not focus. I worried not only for my job, but the fact that I also freelanced for a popular online newspaper, and […]

August 20, 2025
Phobia of Public Speaking: From Butterflies to Boldness
I dreaded public speaking since I was a child, and I have more than one reason. Besides getting butterflies in my stomach beforehand, whether for a class project or an area speech tournament in high school, I still carry trauma from the day my father insisted on being in the room to hear my oration […]

August 13, 2025
Whether Pigs Have Wings: Life, Literature, and Legacy
In seventh grade social studies, our teacher Mrs. Hebert (pronounced AY-bair here in Louisiana) had us to memorize every stanza of Lewis Carroll’s classic, The Walrus and The Carpenter, as a lesson on life, literature, and legacy: The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — […]

August 6, 2025
The Man with the Pink Knapsack: Even If No One Sees Your Rainbow
Within seconds he had passed in front of me, seated in my car at the red light intersection, before my delayed reaction spotted him and tuned in that bright and sunny day. He walked at a fast pace, escorting an old bicycle on the sidewalk, as if he were escorting his date to senior prom. […]

July 30, 2025
Some Manners, Please: Frankly, My Dear, I DO Give a D—!
(Note: I wrote this piece as a guest blog for entrepreneur and mentor Connie Ragen Green’s Huge Profits Tiny List website. I was grateful for the opportunity. Since then, even the President has dropped F-bombs on national television and it did not seem to have fazed individuals — at least, publicly. And rude behavior everywhere seems […]

July 23, 2025
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Time to Break Up—and Let the Addictions Go
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Welcome!
As an award-winning journalist, historian, writer, and online entrepreneur, I’ve dedicated my life to sharing stories that shape our world. I believe in the power of words to convey dreams, ideas, and experiences. My journey as a writer began in an extraordinary childhood as an Army brat, experiencing the harmonious world Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., envisioned—a foundation that still informs my work today.
After my family settled in my father's hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana, I later discovered a vibrant culture that inspired my passion for writing and community advocacy. I’ve channeled this passion into my work, from co-publishing Creole Magazine in the 1990s to authoring For Shakespeare's Stepchildren: 10 Essential Writing Tips and Techniques: Secrets of Successful Writers, available on Amazon now. And recently, I uploaded my thesis in book format, Just As Brutal But Without All the Fanfare: African American Students, Racism, and Defiance during the Desegregation of Southwestern Louisiana Institute, 1954-1964, which tells the inspirational story of the brave young men and women who desegregated the school, today known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It became the first higher education institution to desegregate in the Deep South.