I am so thrilled to say that I have a short story in the new Chicken Soup book. Look for my story on Page 16 - Walking the Lessons of Life
Excerpt: And in the last block she taught me the joy of accomplishing goals.
“Nanny, I think I see cousin Mittie’s house!”
“Are you sure? Do you remember what it looks like? You know you were a lot younger the last time we went to visited her.”
“I think that is it, because there is a lady standing on the porch waving at us.”
She laughed at my reasoning, “Well, I guess you are right then.”
As we approached the old white house we could see cousin Mittie standing on the porch with a big loving smile on her face. You could tell that she and Nanny were related, because they were both tall, with brown-sugar skin and high cheekbones. She came down from the steps to greet us with her arms stretched open to give us hugs and kisses.
She bent down to me and put her hands on my shoulders. “Did you enjoy your walk today baby?”
I looked at Nanny and we smiled at each other. Then I turned to cousin Mittie and said “Yes Ma’am, I sure did!”
These were, literally, the building blocks of my childhood.
These timeless quotations culled from the celebrated corpus of writings by W.E.B. Du Bois are presented with illuminating introductory essays by Aberjhani. Narration of the Audible book performed by Catherine Byers.
