You can browse the recent posts below. However, the entries are best read in order. You can switch to the Sequential Table of Contents or you can start at the beginning with An Open Letter Introduction followed by My BBL Led Me To Marijuana.
Most Recent Entries
THE CABIN & THE PIANO ROOM
It was two weeks before I saw Rashaad again. He only came to do big jobs for Mr. Sims or to to make deliveries in one of the trucks....
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MY FIRST KISS
It was the last evening of camp preparation. The next day, church busses filled with cheering kids would be making their way down the long gravel driveway. Rashaad and...
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SWEET SIXTEEN & SHAMELESS SEVENTEEN
I was still sixteen when I joined my older sister at Ambassador Baptist College, (ABC) a non-accredited IFB school which was then in Shelby, NC. Although I had been sent...
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I TOO WAS CRAVING GRACE
Only days after that trip to the club, my doctor’s office called. I was curled up reading Craving Grace when the phone rang. The medical assistant spoke slowly and...
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BOB, THE BUILDER & THE BOUNCER
I’m going to rewind again and this time back to the last eighteen months or so just prior to leaving NC for AZ. I was quickly climbing the corporate...
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I TOO WAS DYING TO BE ME.
I want to go back to just a couple of years prior to my introduction to Mary Jane. I was working as a private duty nurse caring for an...
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MY BBL LED ME TO MARIJUANA
I can see my younger self sitting with my mother and siblings on the church pew. My father was standing behind the pulpit as he preached from the Kings...
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AN OPEN LETTER INTRODUCTION
Dear Diary, Wait. No, that isn’t right. Dear Readers, I’m writing these entries with you in mind. However, they are adapted from my personal diaries and journals. I struggled...
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