by Toni McNaron | Oct 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
When I set out to write about Jesmyn Ward’s novel, Salvage the Bones, I meant to speak about several aspects that have moved me and driven me to deep thought. I became so wrapped up in talking about Skeetah’s relationship with his white pit bull, China,...
by Toni McNaron | Oct 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’m definitely a cat person when we are dividing the world into cat people or dog people. So when I began Jesmyn Ward’s 2010 novel, Salvage the Bones, I was not immediately drawn in. The opening scene depicts a female pit bull named China as she gives...
by Toni McNaron | Sep 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
An old friend of mine generously provides me with clippings from magazines like The New Yorker and The Atlantic because she knows I don’t subscribe to them but will want to have read parts of them. She also sends me links to articles from The New York Times for...
by Toni McNaron | Sep 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
In Birmingham, Alabama, in my childhood years (the 1940s), there were two professional baseball teams–the Birmingham Barons (all white) and the Black Barons (all black). These two teams alternated performing at Rickwood Field and I went to games fairly...
by Toni McNaron | Sep 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Often I am very late in coming to know about people or events popular around me. So it is with Eddie Murphy, though I am happy to learn that we share April 3rd as our birthday. Of course, I know his name as a comedian of major significance, but comedy is not my...
by Toni McNaron | Sep 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Like millions of other Americans, I watched a lot of the two memorial services held recently to celebrate the life of Senator John McCain. As I was witnessing the beautiful service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., I asked myself why I was doing this. ...
