“At home I pulled all my blinds. I said to my Grandmama and Mama this and that. I said to them, You believed in signs. I remember that well. I remembered how my Mama could read the steam coming off a soup kettle. Especially if it had good, fresh marrow in it. And if I didn’t feel good, Grandmama would go out and bring in fistfuls of wild herbs. She’d throw them in broths and read, depending on my ailment. She was half doctor, half priest. I said to her once when I had the croup and she was making me drink something that had grass in it, I said, “Grandmama, are you making me drink magic?” “No baby, this is good ole-fashioned hoodoo.” HomeMotherFamilyMedicineGrandmotherMagical RealismMatriarchsHoodoo Book:Sugar Cage Source: Sugar Cage
“even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.” DeathDecisionCapable Author:Connie May Fowler
“If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizen’s movement that helps heal the deep racial, economic, and cultural divides tearing us apart, you must read Eric Deggans’ Race-Baiter. No book of recent vintage so thoroughly dissects the media’s monetized appetite for division. Provocative, honest, and smart, Race-Baiter is a supremely important book. Read it and let the conversation begin.” IfsWantImportantBookCountryHelpingCareRaceEconomicHonestMediaMovementCitizensConversationSmartHealDivisionDividesAppetiteProvocativeEricVintageIf You Care Author:Connie May Fowler
