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Precious Lord: A Sunday Morning Tale from 'Leaving Henry' | Read on Amazon

Read excerpt from Chapter One below and order your copy on amazon.com Leaving Henry The next day, I woke up happy that Escelle hadn’t peed on me. I climbed over my sisters as they slept and stood on the cold wood floor. My stomach growled, so I went out to the kitchen to see about breakfast. Momma, already dressed for church, wore a cream-colored embroidered dress with long buttoned sleeves…

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Leaving Henry: The Poignant Life Journey | Excerpt from Chapter One

The Author and her Mother Hello Everyone! My latest novel, Leaving Henry will be available on Amazon.com any day now. It’s been a long road writing my mother’s amazing story, and I can’t wait to share it with all of you. Below is an excerpt from chapter one! Enjoy and don’t forget to purchase your copy on Amazon next month! CHAPTER ONE I woke up on my fifth birthday wet and smelling like pee.…

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Breaking Free: The Inspiring Story of My Mother Leaving Henry

The novel, Leaving Henry coming soon this Fall!

Hi Everyone! I finally finished my novel, Leaving Henry, and have sent it to my editor for editing and review. Writing my mother’s story of the first thirteen years of her life in the rural South was challenging and rewarding. Listening to her share memories about her life as an improvised little girl on a farm in Henry, Tennessee, helped me better understand her motivations and life…

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Homer, Alaska-A Coastal Paradise!

This weekend, I escaped to Homer, a scenic coastal town in Alaska, a lovely paradise!

The Homer Spit Happy Father’s Day and Juneteenth, Everyone! It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been busy winding up my work contract in Alaska. I will return home to Atlanta at the end of the month, and I am looking forward to it. At the same time, I have been feverishly writing my newest novel, Leaving Henry. I am writing chapter twenty-seven and have eight more chapters to go.…

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Nelson Mandela, The Legend and Change Agent

My visit to South Africa-Robben Island Prison

I would stand by this window every morning and observe him going through his routine. I would then call Pretoria. I was very interested in what happened to him daily.-Colonel John Hardman President Nelson Mandela Entrance to Robben Island PrisonThe Long Dark HallwayMandela’s cotstone barrierRobben Island Dining Room Nelson Mandela, the legend and change agent, is known as one of the great…

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My Safari Trek in South Africa!

Read the three-part series on my visit to South Africa this past November. Enjoy and have a lovely day!

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Running With The Reindeer, Very Alaskan!

“It was a cold, bleak, December morning in Alaska, a place so far north on planet earth that if there were such things as popsicle people, they could live there quite comfortably.-Dew Pellucid Happy New Year, everybody! I know it’s late, but as most of you know, I am a clinical social worker and an aspiring Novelist. I’ve been in Alaska, the last frontier, the locals say, on a three-month…

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Just Wait Until You're 95!

Just Wait Until You’re 95!

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I am in the process of writing a novel loosely based on my mother’s childhood years in the south during the 1930s. I just finished chapter thirteen, with 17 chapters to go. Yes, it is a slow process, but shaping up to be a riveting, entertaining, and sometimes ill-fated story. My mother’s memory has faltered for the last two years, particularly during the…

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My Day In Port Townsend

Hello Everyone! I hope you are enjoying your holiday weekend. Take a minute and read about Port Townsend, Washington.

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Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day, Everyone, and if your mother is still around, let her know she is appreciated.

My Mother-“Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue…” Proverbs 31:25-28 Hello Friends! I know it’s been a long time since I posted on my blog.I have enjoyed retirement, working part-time, and best of all, writing my Mother’s Memoir, Leaving Henry. It’s been enlightening and enjoyable…

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New Novel, Leaving Henry Coming In Fall 2023

New Novel, Leaving Henry Coming In Fall 2023

Set in rural Tennessee in the 1930s and inspired by actual events, Leaving Henry is the story of a courageous young African American girl who dreamed of a better life. Born in primitive conditions, life in Henry wasn’t a piece of cake for Ella Ridley. Because of her light skin color, hazel eyes, and auburn hair, her sharecropper father often mistreated her. By the age of ten, she was working in…

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Marietta Square Artistian Market

Today, 9am-2pm. Marietta, Ga on Mill Street.

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Whiskey And Merlot A Love Story A Novel by Anita Dixon Thomas

Whiskey And Merlot A Love Story A Novel by Anita Dixon Thomas

                                                Whiskey and Merlot A Love Story by Anita Dixon Thomas Isabelle Perkins has never met a man she truly loves. Newly divorced at the age of thirty, she doesn’t believe she ever will. Isabelle doesn’t believe in fairy tales. When she meets the dashing Lincoln Davis, she is smitten by his handsome looks and immediately attracted to his take-charge…

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She Was A Fly In The Wrong Soup

She Was A Fly In The Wrong Soup

When young social worker Rachel Thomas accepts her first “real” job at Salter’s Point Regional in Washington State, she expects to be working around crazy people. After all, the hospital was once a notorious insane asylum. Imagine her surprise when she realizes that many of the crazies at Salter’s Point are the professional misfits who are supposed to be caring for the patients. It seems they…