Twas the Week of Christmas and a Powerful Weather Storm Moves Across the Country
Over 200 million people from Seattle to Maine are under a weather storm alert. Meteorologists say a fast system known as a Bomb Cyclone is moving across the country. The storm is expected to cause bitterly cold temperatures, dangerous winds, snow, rain, and flooding...
#7 Persevere Thru the Pandemic Series: Words to get thru the Holidays from Hurricane Katrina survivors
The narratives in my book on Hurricane Katrina women survivors provide strategies on how to get through stressful times, like the Christmas season. “Just do what you can do” one woman said. Another woman commented, ‘decide to just get one or two things done each day...
Dartmouth College: Talk on Mississippi Hurricane Katrina women survivors
This month, I gave a talk at The Roundtable for Black Feminist and Womanist Theory. The three-day event attracted scholars whose work is grounded in one or both constructs. My talk highlighted one aspect of my book, the Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina:...
First snowstorm before Thanksgiving.
A November storm is dumping large amounts of snow in New York. In just one-hour, four-to-five inches of snow fell in Buffalo and more bad weather is expected as the system moves northeast. According to Accu Weather, Lake-effect snow over Lake Erie and Lake Ontario is...
