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Boyz II Men
I saw them in concert this weekend. Mike is missing so we didn’t get the baritone breakdowns, i.e. “Girl I’m sorry, please forgive me for all the wrong I’ve done.” But it was still utterly delightful! Husband and I both enjoyed them so. It begs the question “What ever happened to Boyz II Men?” They are still amazing singers and their songs are exceptionally romantic and touching. Once, around about 2001, Vibe magazine did a feature article on the boyz and the long and short of it was, that people were over R&B – just done listening to the harmonies and crooning. It was (and has been for some time…
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Green spinach and eggs
I like my friends to have healthy appetites and adventurous taste palettes. Otherwise, who will keep me company at the wide variety of restaurants out there waiting to be patronized? Who, if not them, would eat my creations? And who else is there to join me in ordering a dessert, rather than passing judgement and a guilt trip? Yep, I have good eaters in my circle. Recently, a college friend came for a long weekend. She’s always known me as an eater, but missed out on my metamorphosis into a cook. I knew her as a bacon connoisseur, not the porkless dieter she has since become. But people change. It’s…
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Purple is beautiful
I saw The Color Purple stage play last night. Look what God has done! Alice Walker’s novel confirmed for me at age seventeen that I wanted to be a writer. I remember sitting in my bedroom one summer day and reading the entire book. I don’t remember leaving the space. For hours, I read about Celie, her sister Netty and Mister. It was disturbing, amazing and inspiring. Was it fiction? Naw! The story was too good, you can’t make that stuff up! I ended the day spent and ironically refreshed. The women – black women – in the story endured physical and sexual abuse, colonization, racism, incest, infidelity and remained strong. It makes me wonder…
