By: Author Reneé Drummond-Brown The paradigm shifts in a colored gal’s role which goes from coldest to colder to cold. Never can she be lukewarm. For she MUST wear Ephesians WHOLE body of Armor ON at all times to defend her household’s honor. She deals daily with stupidity under all manner of attack from family […]

By: Author Renee’ B. Drummond-Brown Run boy run. READY. AIM. FIRE! Bang. Bang. Two to the chest. One to the head. Pow. His cell phones dead. Dedicated to: Bullseye.

By: Author Reneé Drummond-Brown Medusa’s mop. Mop top. Top hat. Hat hair. Hair Naps. Nappy kitchen. Kitchen’s hideous. Hideous mane. Mane curls. Curly grass. Grass roots. Rooted Gorgon. Gorgons’ myth. Mythical creatures. Creature features. Featured roughnecks. Roughneck barbarians. Barbarian airhead. Heads’ defiled. Defiled temple. Temple headache. Heads’ poisoned. Poisonous venom. Venom substance. Substance secreted. Secreted […]

By: Author Reneé Drummond-Brown Betrayed. Stolen from their hut. Sold out by their own. Chain linked. Captivity. Beaten by boisterous waves across a battered angry sea. Locked into AND out-of a keyless door of no return. With the hope of absolutely NO possibilities. Beaten down by a lady of liberty. Fenced into a mesh of […]

By Author: Renee’ B. Drummond-Brown Every man is an island Alone answering for one’s soul Alone in the grave Alone in death Alone in grief Alone in sin and furies of insanities plea Alone in truths Alone in lies Alone in mess Alone in friction Alone in bitterness Alone in cries Alone in loneliness Alone […]

(The Answer to: Dr. Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise”) By: Author Reneé Drummond-Brown Maya, Of course, they wrote you down in history. You proved them wrong in truth. But you planted for me calligraphy, so, I’m heard on paper all the way to God’s celestial roof! My passion for writing does upset them. But I […]

By: Author Reneé Drummond-Brown She found him in those streets. Cleaned him up. Kept him as her own. Bought shoes for his crusted feet(s). Gave-em her car, loan and put-em in a house of his own. He bruised her heel(s) Just like her Momma said he would… Lost toys “belong” in them streets. Put “IT” […]

What’s in a naME? A wise Professor at Geneva College once taught me, Careful what you name your child, ‘Cause’ that’s what they’ll grow up to be! Search your Bible carefully for a strong Biblical naME, Knowing what I know now, I would’ve certainly done the same. When you pick for your child, a naME […]

“Flow Jordan River Flow” “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;  male and female created he them. And God blessed them and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, […]

FATHER WHO ARE THESE KIDS TODAY? “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,” (2 Timothy 3: 1, KJV) Eli! Eli! Why are they so ungodly? Did we give them too much? Did […]