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411 Focus

Daddy was strict, but he was honest. Like James Brown sang, he "didn't take no mess"
How people treat their "pets" provides a pretty accurate gauge of how they treat people
And, if you do decide to recycle, make sure you do what my step-mother called a "half-a__s" job
They, my "first" mother and my stepmother each loved in her own way, to the best of their ability, and became friends

Archived focus Headlines

Daddy was strict, but he was honest. Like James Brown sang, he "didn't take no mess" - 06/16/2019

How people treat their "pets" provides a pretty accurate gauge of how they treat people - 06/06/2019

And, if you do decide to recycle, make sure you do what my step-mother called a "half-a__s" job - 05/24/2019

They, my "first" mother and my stepmother each loved in her own way, to the best of their ability, and became friends - 05/11/2019

Somebody tell me why there is such an unwillingness, really an aversion, it seems, to recycling! - 04/26/2019

I look around, and I don't recognize fear in others' eyes... Am I the only one who's scared? - 03/22/2019

As I got older, the term "colored" became offensive, and by the time I was a teen ... I was a "Negro" - 02/23/2019

I will forever be grateful to a woman who leaned into my world and told it like it was - 02/08/2019

I hate bad grammar... I hate "acceptance" of poor language ... - 01/31/2019

In those days, nothing -- except what my folks couldn't produce themselves -- came in a box, and few things from the two grocery stores "in town" - 12/29/2018

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Other Focus Headlines

Somebody tell me why there is such an unwillingness, really an aversion, it seems, to recycling!

I look around, and I don't recognize fear in others' eyes... Am I the only one who's scared?

As I got older, the term "colored" became offensive, and by the time I was a teen ... I was a "Negro"