by Toni McNaron | May 14, 2018 | Toni's Blog
Every morning, unless it’s way below zero, I begin my day by walking about a mile and a half in my neighborhood. That means I meet the same people walking their dogs, the same children on the way to or standing in line to board the school bus. It also means in...
by Toni McNaron | May 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’ve loved horses since I was a very little girl. When I was about nine, I read all the black stallion books by Walter Farley. Then I asked for books about horse breeds here and in Arabia. As puberty approached, I decided to be a horse–Smokey, the horse...
by Toni McNaron | May 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
In a recent article in the Birmingham News, several white residents of Montgomery said, when asked their opinion about the newly opened National Memorial for Peace and Justice, some version of “let sleeping dogs lie.” A few even used that exact phrase. ...
by Toni McNaron | Apr 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
In the last weeks of outpatient treatment for alcoholism, my counselor talked to us about what was coming next. She felt it imperative that we find a weekly AA meeting that we attended no matter what. So she enjoined us to “just show up.”. If we were...
by Toni McNaron | Apr 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
My mother was an artist but she died before I was old enough to recognize that. A primary location for her to practice her art was her garden. She and Daddy had bought a bigger house and the vacant lot attached, so Mamie (what most people called my mother) decided...
