I named it for the Maroons, escaped Africans who built free settlements in Jamaica. They didn't petition. They took it.

Guests were thrilled to be on Tom Joyner or CNN with no plan for what came next. I teach the follow-through.

I had to build our own village in Dallas. By my son's college graduation, I had grown and unlearned alongside him.

Swift River returns to the Portland Parish village floods emptied, where my great-grandmother was born in 1881.

I rose to executive producer. I Googled every guest, because our listeners were ten times more skeptical than me.

On my way to a job in Jacksonville, I walked in, got hired almost on the spot, and stayed 10 years.

Easier Said Than Done went through four or five edits, and my editor still caught every adverb I overused.

I studied education at Howard and taught in Missouri and Jamaica before deciding it wasn't my work.

I named it for the Maroons, escaped Africans who built free settlements in Jamaica. They didn't petition. They took it.

Guests were thrilled to be on Tom Joyner or CNN with no plan for what came next. I teach the follow-through.

I had to build our own village in Dallas. By my son's college graduation, I had grown and unlearned alongside him.

Swift River returns to the Portland Parish village floods emptied, where my great-grandmother was born in 1881.

I rose to executive producer. I Googled every guest, because our listeners were ten times more skeptical than me.

On my way to a job in Jacksonville, I walked in, got hired almost on the spot, and stayed 10 years.

Easier Said Than Done went through four or five edits, and my editor still caught every adverb I overused.

I studied education at Howard and taught in Missouri and Jamaica before deciding it wasn't my work.