I used to make my living as a newspaper journalist. Now I work as a freelance writer and consultant.  Over the years, I have worked an eclectic mix of odd jobs and entrepreneurial projects to supplement my income when the business of selling words gets slow.

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My name is Linda and I am a Facebook social groupaholic.

I wasn’t always so hopelessly addicted.   It happened suddenly and without warning.

I started out as a casual contributor, posting occasional status updates in Facebook news feeds and on my wall.  I kept my musings to a m/… Read full post »

When I lived in D.C. in the late ‘70s, my tiny studio apartment was on the northwest side of the city, in a building right across from Meridian Hill Park, commonly known in the black cultural community as Malcolm X Park.

It was in Malcolm X Park where guys and a few… Read full post »

Art Blakey, the late jazz drummer and band leader would have been 90 years old this year had he lived.  He was born in October 11, 1919.  He died on October 16, 1990.    October also happened to be the month that I met him and his Jazz Messengers 30 years ago/… Read full post »