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Recalling a Girlhood Idol – Nellie Bly
Posted on May 5, 2015 10 Comments
Before I learned about Lorraine Hansberry, Zora Neale Hurston, and Bessie Coleman I read about Nellie Bly. I was a ten year old black girl living in a pastel colored wooden shot-gun house on an un-paved street in Panama City, Florida when I read about this adventurous, outspoken, writing woman. Today, Google Doodles honors her […]
A Little Black History – Part 2
Posted on February 19, 2015 7 Comments
This is the second part of the collaboration Brian and I created several years ago.
Welcome to My New Website
Posted on December 22, 2014 11 Comments
My plan was to launch this change in January but my lack of technical know-how created this early inauguration. For all of you dear readers who have followed Rigzenchomo – you will be redirected to my new site skywalker storyteller works (still a WordPress site). This site is still a work in progress. But, you can see […]
New Entrepreneurs – Stop Clawing, Become Radiant
Posted on December 9, 2014 Leave a Comment
http://www.telegraph.co.uk How often do you find yourself feeling like a cat clinging to a brick wall? Even though you dig your claws into the bricks and use every bit of strength to move forward, nothing happens. You are just stuck there clinging for dear life. And all you wanted to do was to climb to […]
A Song for All Our Countries
Posted on October 16, 2014 2 Comments
Although this is a song of the Middle East, the heart of it can apply to all of our countries. For the West African countries suffering from Ebola. For the Ukrainians in turmoil. For the Nigerians being kidnapped and murdered. For the immigrants around the world fleeing their countries because of oppression and injustice. Read […]
The Prince and the Goddess – Ideas, Innovations, Inspiration
Posted on October 15, 2014 6 Comments
It’s time for the Artist Formerly Known as Prince to move over and bow to a new Prince. I discovered Prince Ea on the Facebook newsfeed of a Buddhist friend when I wished her happy birthday. She had posted a video, What No One Wants to Say About Ferguson. From the title I thought he […]
Happy Mother’s Day Lucille – A Book Review
Posted on May 12, 2013 2 Comments
Who would believe that a cigarette smoking white woman with only an eighth grade education, five children, and more than twice divorced could plant the seeds for Vajrayana Buddhist practice in the United States? But it is true, a little known story related, in all of its mysticism and contradictions, in the book Luminous Sitting, […]
Free Write Friday – Stormy Night
Posted on April 12, 2013 21 Comments
It’s Friday again, and Kellie Elmore has inspired another short short story for Free Write Friday. Today’s prompt was the above photo. Enjoy. She no longer heard his words. It was always her fault. Ever since the second miscarriage everything was her fault, nothing she did was right. It was her fault they were lost that she […]
Free Write Friday – Yellow
Posted on March 8, 2013 30 Comments
This week’s prompt me took me to an unexpected place.Thanks to KellieElmore.com for another intriguing prompt. Yellow The room filled with yellow light and she felt herself ascending into the light like a feather on a wind current of energy swimming in a sea of emotions beyond space and time into an infinite sphere of softness […]
Angela Davis and I – Poetry, Cinema, and Social Justice
Posted on February 24, 2013 11 Comments
1970, Professor Angela Davis and myself, a college freshman; Angela in the 80s our second meeting; Angela in 2012 at the Toronto Film Festival.——————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Angela My conscience commissions me/to take pen and paper/and give meaning to the meaningless word./Your silence castrates me./Day dawns but I am weary/the pages empty, the hours wasted./What is your glory […]
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