Once upon a time, while driving down the highway, I spotted a billboard. It was black, with white letters that read, “Don’t make me come down there.” Then, beneath that one, threatening sentence was this: “God.” Have you seen that billboard, too? At first glance, the billboard got a bit of a …
Peace With Everyone?
One night last week, my husband and I were watching the Olympics on television. We were watching a few unknown-to-us basketball players on the court. Their passion was contagious and, at several moments during the game, my husband cheered aloud and talked back to the television. He cheered for the …
Running Your Race
In high school, I ran track. I was a sprinter, and I was fast. I even won a few medals. Just a few years ago, for my fiftieth birthday, my husband took me to Hawaii to celebrate and I signed myself up to run in the local YMCA’s 5K run. Race day was hot, and the course was heavy laden with hill …
Planting New Paradigms
My paternal grandfather was an agricultural extension agent in rural Virginia, long before I was born. In his role, my grandfather traveled around from farm to farm, teaching landowners in his African-American community to cultivate the soil in a manner that produced the greatest yield of crops. In …