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Monthly Archives: May 2021

Underground Railroad

May 31, 2021 · by Sherrie R. Lowly | in Uncategorized | tagged ColsonWhitehead, ToniMorrison, UndergroundRailroad | Leave a comment

Last night, Tim and I finished watching the series, The Underground Railroad, based on Colson Whitehead’s book by the same name. I’m haunted by the characters depicted on the screen. I finished reading the book a couple of years ago now, so watching the written images come to life on the screen brought the characters […]

My Mom

May 8, 2021 · by Sherrie R. Lowly | in beauty, Connection, Home, hope, Mother | tagged beauty, Legacy, love, Mom, Mothers, Spirit | Leave a comment

My mom is beautiful. She just turned ninety-three-years old. I don’t know if she ever really yearned to be a mother—especially of five children. I’ve not asked her that question. Or was it the only alternative to a woman of her generation, married young with an eight-grade education? Her own mother died when she was […]

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