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~~~ Today, I learned that one of my favorite National Public Radio (NPR) shows, Tell Me More will be taken off the air August 1st. In addition to cancellation of the show there are 28 positions that are being eliminated. As reported by NPRs The Two-Way, “These times require that we organize ourselves in different […]
Read More Do We Care?~~~ Mother’s Day use to be one of my of my favorite days, until 2011. This is the year that my mom passed. I still had my grandmother to be with and love; however, not having my mom that first Mother’s Day was and is still painful. My grandmother passed a few weeks after Mother’s […]
Read More Mother’s Day Musings~~~ Every girl on this planet that we inhabit should be afforded the right to an education. Every girl should be able to feel safe and not live in fear of being hurt or taken from their family. A little over one and half weeks ago the news of 270 Nigerian girls, abducted from their […]
Read More Girls Around The World~~~ When I was a child my mom told me to always be kind to people, especially service workers. People who worked in the kitchens and did janitorial work she said would always be helpful. From time to time to make extra money she would do some light housework for a friend. Her belief was […]
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~~~ Pound Cake Love April 15, 2011 at 7:04am marked the last time, I communicated with my mother at least in the earthly realm. She breathed her last breath sometime that morning. But this blog post isn’t to reflect on her death; for that you can look at post from April and May…
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~~~ Early in our marriage, my husband and I decided to continue attending our individual churches. He is Catholic and I am Baptist, we figure different staircase same heaven. We alternate taking time to attend each other’s church and after 19 years of marriage, it works for us. One of the…
A photo often says more than a full written page. In thinking through the the events important to me in 2013, I consolidated to four photo collages. Family, Sorority, & Political Activism as well as some main news items are the pinnacle of my year. So as promised in the 2013 Year In Review blog […]
Read More Photo Collage: 2013 Year In ReviewToday marks PaisleyPerspective.com 3rd Anniversary with the first post being January 1, 2011. The first month there were 507 views, December 2013 there were 1,410 views with a total over the three years of 17,103 views. I personally have gone through some life situations that have resulted in sporadic posting. I hope to be more […]
Read More 2013 Year In Review~~~ Today commemorates the 50th Anniversary of what is now called ‘March on Washington’. In 1963 the event was advertised as ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom’. It was organized by a collaboration of leaders across various social and civic activist organizations. The march was decades in the making, even before the Montgomery Bus […]
Read More Still Striving To Overcome~~~ My very first day of school, specifically pre-school was well over 4 decades ago. However, I remember it and each milestone first day from then on. But the most significant day that sticks with me is my first day of high school. I remember shopping for the all-important high school wardrobe in South Carolina, […]
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