Stories

I was a sophomore in high school when Mama became ill and subsequently passed. Her passing left a gigantic void because she was truly the driving force that kept the family intact and in line. Though I was not the eldest child in the family, Mama had ...

It was a beautiful Southern California day! It was a wonderful time in my life. It was the year I turned twenty-one, the year I got married and the year I graduated from college. And now, I was on my way to an interview for my first teaching assignment...

I had what I considered the happiest marital union on the face of the earth and then suddenly, I lost my husband of thirty-seven years. I entered a state of indescribable grief. My first reaction was shock and numbness where I remained for several days...

When I was a student in High School in the late 40's, I was told by school counselors that Negroes don't write, so my dream of becoming a writer was shot down. When I retired, the dream of writing returned. I enrolled in the UCLA School of Writing (e...