Vera Katz called me a week ago to give me the heads up on a reading she’s directing of a new work by Caleen Sinette Jennings. My ears immediately perked up. Caleen is a very talented playwright. I’ve shared the one-act festival stage with her at Source Theatre here in DC. [...]
The President did double time this week with his weekly address and the eulogy he delivered today at the funeral mass for Senator Edward Kennedy in Boston.
It’s the 4th anniversary of the devistation that hurricaine Katrina unloaded on the Gulf Coast. Today, Michael Jackson would’ve turned 51, had he lived. Spike [...]
I wasn’t a big reader in my early years; but I could read. My parents read to me, my sister, even my older cousins. We got free books in school. I remember each of us got a set of Dr. Seuss books: Stop That Ball, One Fish, Two Fish, Three Fish, [...]
If this man should fall, who will lift the flag and carry on….
Brigadier General George C. Strong to the 54th Colored Regiment of Massachusetts. July 18, 1863
I am not watching network or cable news (online) today. If needed, you can read the Boston Globe aritcle here. I’d rather remember in my own [...]
I remember my vice principle in high school patroling the halls snapping the order to “Get to Class!” Well that’s where school stops and life-learning starts.
Last night I treated myself (i.e., stepped away from the laptop to engage in life), to a workshop reading of Anu Yadav’s Classlines, a series of monologues or stories [...]
Something about “back to school” that feels like a new beginning even if you’ve so-called graduated from it all. Saturday, I joined a newly formed group called the Grassroots Education Project to assist Harriet Tubman Elementary get in shape for the first day of school - that’s today. Neither rain or stifling [...]
Before getting into the President’s Weekly, I hope you will take a look at “Critical Condition” which was highlighted last night on “Bill Moyers Journal” (PBS). “Critical Condition” is a documentary from the series P.O.V. (also PBS). It is one of the rare television moments during this health insurance reform debate that we [...]
For myself, without yet suggesting that others follow me in an open boycott, I will not personally travel in a state where civilians carry loaded weapons onto the sidewalks and as a means of political protest. I not only believe such practices are a threat to the future of our democracy, but I am firmly [...]
Celebrate! As of today, Eclectique|916 has been live for one full year. It occurred to me last night as I was blogging about the Burqini. Oddly, my first post was about Muslim women’s fashion. Snap! I really didn’t plan that.
There are three people I have to thank for getting me [...]
Apparently officials in France and Italy have decided the Burqini reveals too little and have banned women from wearing them to public pools and beaches.
Thanks to an Australian sportswear company named Ahiida, Muslim women can be modestly attired while fearlessly active in the water and on dry land. Ruqaya Al Ghasara, a [...]
