It’s Been A While! Here Is an Update, of Sorts
This is going to be the first random post in the four years since my blog, folklore & literacy, went live on November 30, 2014. The reason why I am doing th...
Category: Musings
#Throwback Thursday: What Do Louise DeSalvo and Aesop Have in Common?
Greetings! Happy 2018! I’ve elected to re-publish one of my early posts – back when I had about four followers!- while I figure out what I want to d...
Celebrating the Birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Two years after the Detroit riots (also known as the the 12th Street Riot, the 1967 Rebellion and the Uprising of 1967), and one year after the assassination of...
Where Is The Love? Reflections On Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
When we were children in the 1960s and 1970s, family who had migrated from the south to cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and Indianapolis made annual ca...
True Names: Reflecting on Lost Lives
“Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once, so I can see that my joy and pain are one.”** I am in pain over our nation’s ...
Memory of First Reads
Note from Leslie: Clicking on colored text will allow you to discover more about that item! One of my early memories is of receiving books in the mail beginning...
“My Friend Victoria”: Finding Value in Uncomfortable Readings & Viewings Part Two
PART TWO (Read PART ONE) The farther away I get from my first impressions of this story the more it becomes other things. Is this what happened when Jean Paul C...
“My Friend Victoria”: Finding Value in Uncomfortable Readings & Viewings
PART ONE I am having difficulty thinking about the film “My Friend Victoria” and the Doris Lessing novella “Victoria and the Staveneys,” from which the film was...
Tearful Reunion With Some Classics
Oh! How is your summer going? I also mean: goodness gracious but I hope you have had some fun and/or a vacation and things like that….! ….found myse...