She’s a freelance writer who leans into her past as a psychotherapist while pursuing the truth about being human.
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The biography of a winning coach who transformed the lives of African American children in Aurora, Illinois, a Midwest city that wanted to remain innocent of racism. It is an American story of success against the odds, where a realized potential is stronger than the tidal wave of a community’s beliefs.
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Publication date February 9, 2026, by Koehler Books, Inc.
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The People Spoke – The Government Listened
Today the president’s “border czar,” Tom Homan announced withdrawal of ICE from Minneapolis. Why? We can only assume the massive objections on the part of American citizens played a part. It was the same when ICE ended its Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago just 3 months ago. In Chicago my…
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Why Pity is a Mistake
Time to change the racial narrative. The Black story is about overcomers, not victims.
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Red-hot Anger in A Deep-freeze Climate
Watching videos of the Minneapolis protesters this week, bundled in ski garb, down coats and balaclavas, has me thinking metaphors. They are in a deep freezer, their red-hot anger packaged in cellophane. Because my own nose hairs freeze when I walk between back door and garage here in Illinois, I…
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Don’t Quit. Keep Going.
The White version of Black suffering remains stuck in victim-thoughts. When we hear stories of people made to suffer, we identify with their pain and mentally turn them into victims. We miss the point. Pain is the crucible that teaches us how to survive pain. There is no better example…
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