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Last year, I could not walk on Juneteenth, as I was still recovering from my emergency room visit due to my bronchiectasis, but this year I was able to go on a fantastic walk. Juneteenth is a great celebration in my view. While I couldn't go for a walk last year, I did write about it, wishing readers a happy Juneteenth and thanking the person who brought the holiday to Texas in 1980. This walk was not a new walk for me. Rather, I started off heading for a place that I have vi

I am a big fan of reading and a big fan of Little Free Library as well. Historically, I have read a lot of non-fiction, but, as a young person, I read a lot of fiction. Once I started working, I was "too busy" with work to read "for fun" and quit reading fiction. A few years ago, I restarted with a big passion. What I like about Little Free Library is that it is convenient, and it is good for the consumers of books, who pay nothing. For me, the best thing is that it gets me t

Robert Hamburger wrote this book in 1973. He went to Fayette County, TN in 1965 as a civil rights worker and stayed a week with two of the people in the book, Harper and Minnie Jameson. Fayette County is to the East of Memphis, and it has about 42K residents. The book tells the story of the Blacks in Fayette County through speeches that the author heard from many folks. They discuss the time period from 1959 to the early 70s, The author did a good job of discussing the key fo

In 2020, the George Floyd mess opened my eyes to something: We are still a racist country. His death stunned the country. It took place during the pandemic, and it resulted in the prosecution of the white police officer who killed him. The bigger issue, to me, was that the relationship between blacks and whites in the U.S. was shown to be under pressure. He grew up in the Houston area and is buried in Pearland: I was hopeful that this murder would help change things based on