by Thomas F Daniels | Jul 16, 2017 | Events
A concept that I could never get through my thick skull was the difference between the mouth and the source of a river. In fact, I had to look up that information before writing this because it just doesn’t seem logical. The source part is quite easy to understand...
by Thomas F Daniels | Jul 9, 2017 | Issues to Care About
I am writing this blog on July 4, 2017. I saw on the news this past week that a majority of young Americans are not proud of their country. As a sixty-eight year old white man, I find this poll disturbing. While I was preparing a song list for our Black and White Like...
by Thomas F Daniels | Jul 3, 2017 | Issues to Care About
Jackapoos, Yorkipoos, Puggles, Labradoodles, Sheepadoodles, Goldendoodles, Cockadoodledoos ( I’m just messing with you on that last one to see if you were paying attention; no way would a rooster mate with a poodle, a St. Bernard maybe, but a poodle…?) Growing up, I...
by Thomas F Daniels | Jun 25, 2017 | Memory Lane
Lo-Lo’s Chicken and Waffles is a chain of homemade Southern soul food restaurants. In our book Black and White Like You and Me, we have a section about stereotypes including types of food blacks enjoy. Clearly then, the stereotype is that Lo-Lo’s would only be...
by Thomas F Daniels | Jun 11, 2017 | Events
Mrs. Suzanne Sarkesian invited Thomas Marsh and me to appear at her book club which we did last week. Suzanne had asked us to appear even before we had finished writing the book! Encouragement like that was certainly a boost to our enthusiasm and confidence. When we...