Last Friday on Okaloosa Island in Florida’s Panhandle, a Georgia tourist who was visiting The Boardwalk, a swanky series of shops and cafes located adjacent to one of Florida’s pristine Gulf Coast beaches, was...
Read MoreYesterday, my mother handed me an article written by Jacob Bogage of the Washington Post entitled “Buffalo’s East Side was a food desert—the shooting made things worse” and, suffice it to say that the...
Read MoreToday we commemorate D-Day, the date in 1944 when Allied Forces stormed the French coast in the last stages to rid Europe of Nazi tyranny. I have always taken note that in most popular films about the D-Day invasions at...
Read More“Well, son, I’ll tell you, Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up,And places with no carpet on the floor—Bare.” Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, “Mother-to-Son,”...
Read MoreYesterday, I had the privilege to serve as a chaperone for my daughter and her friends in the Florida A&M University Forestry Camp during their trip to Apalachicola Bay where, for several hours, they learned the intricacies...
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