by Toni McNaron | Oct 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
This past week, TV stations across the country showed us an amazing scene: Brandt Jean, the 18 year old brother of Both Jean who was shot and killed by a white female police person who went home to the wrong apartment after her night shift was over, asked the trial...
by Toni McNaron | Sep 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
There aren’t many in this country, but I’ve been deciding to enter as many as I can. A couple of years ago I accepted an invitation from a good friend to travel to Washington D.C. to visit the Museum of African American History and Culture and the...
by Toni McNaron | Aug 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
In 2004, Richard Eyre directed the movie, “Stage Beauty,” written by Jeffrey Hatcher and starring Billy Cudrup and Claire Danes. Recently I watched this amazingly beautiful and haunting movie for the third time. A good friend who’d never seen it...
by Toni McNaron | Aug 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
In the August 14th New York Times, there’s an article by Karen Crouse, a sports reporter for the paper, entitled “Tiger and Serena Confront Twilight and Aching Backs.” Crouse clearly admires both stellar athletes, even saying they achieved unique...
by Toni McNaron | Aug 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
A cherished friend just called me to be the one to tell me that Toni Morrison has died. For half a century she has given us book after book after book filled with characters who don’t always succeed but who never lose humanity. For half a century she has...
by Toni McNaron | Jul 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
A friend and I are just back from a magical trip to Eastern Egg Rock in Maine. That’s where a lively colony of puffins now lives, though 40 years ago, almost all the little brightly colored shore birds had essentially vanished from their home. Between using...
