Sweeping Through Life

Dear World, I know I have not blogged in awhile, but I needed to let somethings out. This past weekend, has been emotional between all the politics, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and watching Hidden Figures and An American Girl Story: Melody, I have been fighting back tears.  All  have thought about is the United States going back to a time when people of color or women did not matter? It makes me question about what opportunities will my daughter have? What will the world look like for her? Is it going back to separate bathroom, fountains and doors? At the moment, it sure feels that way. I can not shake this feeling and the closer the 20th gets the more worried I get about it. I really trying to keep hope alive but day by day, my hope is being chipped away. I have tried to distracting myself by not watching the news, but it still seeps in. I am trying to find the positives in all this but at this time, I only see one which is people starting to mobilize and band together fo...

The other day I went to the library and there was a group of young girls, about 5 of them, were arguing in the lobby. I saw a women with her 2 year old go to the library counter and complain. The library security guard went to to escort them out of the library, the words that were being said ....all I could say was wow. I know that I sometimes have a foul mouth, but they totally had me beat. As they were being escorted from the library, they kept yelling at one another and the security guard. As they got into their car in the library parking lot, one of the girls said  "Mom, get in the car." To my astonishment, one of the people in the group was one of the mothers' of the other girls. As I watched them get into the car and drive to a near by church parking lot they continued to yell and scream at each other, I still was amazed at the fact that a parent was encouraging this behavior. When did parents, stop being parents? I remember when all the parents on my street, scould...