My Hometown USA

Another year has sneaked past and once again I take a reflective look backwards so that I may improve my frontwards. 50 years old in 2013 To rate the year, it  wasn't  all that bad… Even if, it was the dreaded year that I turned 50 years old! Or half a century! Yikes. What happened in a nutshell in 2013? We had another terrorist attack where Boston was able to show its strength, another epic catastrophic storm hit, this time in the Philippines where a hurricane the size of Katrina and stronger than Camille (my worst nightmare combo) hit and devastated the country. As humans, we respond. We are fascinated with tragedy because it is where we find stories of true character and survival, something that appeals to us and frightens us at the same time, reminding us of our vulnerability. This past year, our culture was introduced to trending fads such as the Harlem Shake and “ Whatdoes the Fox say? ”  I still do not know what the Fox says but at ...

My 70's class  from Pearl River Central, Carriere, Mississippi H ave you ever just said the wrong thing? H ave you ever been so comfortable with your own skin that you made an off color joke about someone else’s? Or , do you harbor deep thoughts of ill will and dislike that eventually the inside darkness spills out into sunlight, the thoughts become words or actions, leaking out the poison that is within your skin cells? Then you might be a racist. Tracy Being Southern, talking all country and stuff, doesn’t mean you were born racist, or that is okay to act racist or its mandatory that you apologize and make up for a racist history. This country gal is a product of a changing world that has embraced the good parts of being from south Mississippi and pushed the ugly back into a dark precipice. I have witnessed a transformation of white and black growing up together in the sixties and seventies. Uniquely, I am the generation of moving past r...