My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Female
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	writer, musician
Location	Chicago, IL, United States
Introduction	I travel (usually on the Amtrak Cardinal train!) between Chicago and my home state of West Virginia, playing blues piano and talking about whatever I'm writing about. My hope is to grow spiritually (I'm a Quaker)and learn to cooperatively address the horrendous issues on this planet. I've published my major work through my own Peaceful Patriot Press: the biographies Peaceful Patriot:The Story of Tom Bennett and Stepson of the Blues: A Chicago Song of Survival www.stepsonoftheblues.com
Interests	blues music, arts education, W.Va. politics, Chicago politics, W.Va. history, Chicago history, West Side Chicago, rail, Quakers, sustainable farming, black history, African American history, West Virginia history, race relations, prison reform
Favorite movies	"American Violet", "Cadillac Records"
Favorite music	Howlin' Wolf, Aretha Franklin, Elmore James, Larry Taylor blues and soul band, Santana
Favorite books	"New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander, "Color Purple" by Alice Walker, "Strange as the Weather Has Been" by Ann Pancake Arlene Jones' West Side novel, "Billion Dollar winner," South Side author Angela Jackson novel, "Where I Must Go," Sudhir Venkatesh, "Gang Leader for a Day"