Jan 12

SOUND ADVICE IN TRYING TIMES

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I was reviewing some old posts and found this one from two years ago. I believe it is still appropriate for today’s times too. It’s simple. Sometimes less complicated is the best way to go. My sister sent me this message several months ago, when I was feeling low down and a bit helpless. I loved it so much I decided to pass it on. Thanks Sis. My only comment, I would add some additional suggestions to Number 9. If you can’t show up and be counted because of limitations, you can still do something. Call your representatives like I did or email them or write to them like I did. All of that works too. The point is to do something positive. Don’t stay in your own little bubble world and complain about how bad things are if you aren’t willing to do more than complain. Read the rest of the advice below. It needs no further explanation. From a friend’s page. Sound advice for the times. This is also going around and for good reason: 1. Don’t use his name. 2. Remember this is a regime and he’s not acting alone. 3. Do not belittle those who support […]
Jan 04

SAY CHEESE & SNAP, a picture, perfect romance, sort of!

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Photographer Andrea Cochran who does children’s school portraits, can’t stand children. Usually, she uses her chosen career as a photographer to pick up women. She loves them married, engaged or living together. The more attached to somebody else the better for her. She views commitment and long-term relationships with a jaundiced eye. That is until she meets Jamila Butler-Jackson, a very determined mother of twins. Coincidentally, the police department has been trying to infiltrate a child porn ring. Senior Detective Tito Gonzales, pressures Andrea into working for the porn ring by making her feel guilty about the I-spy video she took that caused his third wife to divorce him. The guilt trip works. Andrea joins his squad to work undercover. The porn ring likes Andrea’s school contacts and school photo work she’s done. They decide to use her. Gonzales and his crew love the idea they’ve finally infiltrated the porn ring. They rehearse Andrea in the basics of undercover work and how to see trouble coming. Unfortunately for Andrea, she’s so convincing that her own family and Jamila believe she might be into to something evil and illegal. Jamila tries to avoid Andrea, but she keeps bumping into Andrea because […]
Dec 22

WHY I WROTE: SAY CHEESE & SNAP, a picture, perfect romance, sort of!

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In this age of social media, short-term relationships and instant gratification, I wondered how a woman who loved short-term, uncommitted lesbian relationships looked like. What would it take to change her way of life. What type of woman would change her? What would the woman who changed be like? Would she be a saint-like woman? A good woman who does everything right and perfect. No affairs. No dating more than one woman at a time. Always breaking up cleanly before starting another relationship. Nothing sticky or dual stuff with Miss Goody-Two-Shoes, who is boring as hell but stable as hell. She’s not going anywhere. Or would the woman who tames the no-commitment, short-term relationship woman, be a reformed wild child woman herself? You know the type. The reformed player, who used to be a two-faced scoundrel but found true love. Now, she ignores her own passionate urges and temptations to adhere to her vows and expects the wild child to do the same. Or would she be sort of in the middle … a little bit of bad and devilish mixed with little bit of angel. This type of woman has my vote. I wondered which woman my main character […]
Dec 15

WADE IN THE WATERS

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I’m not one for religious symbolism but the more I hear about foreign involvement in our democratic election system, I keep thinking of a song I used to hear in church Sunday mornings. I was a kid back then. Everybody knows Baby boomer children couldn’t say. “Mom, Dad I’m not going to church. It’s Sunday morning. I think I just sit this visit out. I don’t like how that old guy wearing that long robe talks to us. He’s always screaming about devils and doing bad stuff from that platform he stands on. You and Dad might like him; but he scares the mess out of me. Today, I’ll just sit home and do something that makes me happy. Watching Sunday morning cartoons makes me happy and so I’ll be doing that today, okay? I’ll see you both when you get back from church if I’m not napping, right?” No way was that going to fly with my parents back then. In the only thing flying, would be my butt into next week. That would be after I was released from the children’s ward of the hospital, my father’s opened can of whup my backside sent me. But I digress. […]
Dec 08

SOUND ADVICE IN TRYING TIMES

by B.L. in Other 0 comments
I was reviewing some old posts and found this one from two years ago. I believe it is still appropriate for today’s times too. It’s simple. Sometimes less complicated is the best way to go. My sister sent me this message several months ago, when I was feeling low down and a bit helpless. I loved it so much I decided to pass it on. Thanks Sis. My only comment, I would add some additional suggestions to Number 9. If you can’t show up and be counted because of limitations, you can still do something. Call your representatives like I did or email them or write to them like I did. All of that works too. The point is to do something positive. Don’t stay in your own little bubble world and complain about how bad things are if you aren’t willing to do more than complain. Read the rest of the advice below. It needs no further explanation. From a friend’s page. Sound advice for the times. This is also going around and for good reason: 1. Don’t use his name. 2. Remember this is a regime and he’s not acting alone. 3. Do not belittle those who support […]
Dec 01

SAY CHEESE & SNAP, a picture, perfect romance, sort of!

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Photographer Andrea Cochran who does children’s school portraits, can’t stand children. Usually, she uses her chosen career as a photographer to pick up women. She loves them married, engaged or living together. The more attached to somebody else the better for her. She views commitment and long-term relationships with a jaundiced eye. That is until she meets Jamila Butler-Jackson, a very determined mother of twins. Coincidentally, the police department has been trying to infiltrate a child porn ring. Senior Detective Tito Gonzales, pressures Andrea into working for the porn ring by making her feel guilty about the I-spy video she took that caused his third wife to divorce him. The guilt trip works. Andrea joins his squad to work undercover. The porn ring likes Andrea’s school contacts and school photo work she’s done. They decide to use her. Gonzales and his crew love the idea they’ve finally infiltrated the porn ring. They rehearse Andrea in the basics of undercover work and how to see trouble coming. Unfortunately for Andrea, she’s so convincing that her own family and Jamila believe she might be into to something evil and illegal. Jamila tries to avoid Andrea, but she keeps bumping into Andrea because […]
Nov 24

WHY I WROTE: Dutch Chocolate9: Where is Vita Louise Kane?

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Years ago, long before the girl power, Black Girl Magic and the Me-Too movements, I watched Angela Jolie in the movie Laura Croft Tomb Raider. I was in love with movies again. I thought. Wow! Finally, an attractive woman in a lead role where she carries everything. She played the role of an adventurer, normally inhabited by a man. Think Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones series or Nicholas Cage in the National Treasure series, both men played adventurer roles. Their movies were quite popular with moviegoers. While watching Tomb Raider, years later, I thought to myself. How come there aren’t more action movies like this with women or minorities in main roles? Why aren’t they the stars of show? Is it because nobody would pay to see movies like this? Then I thought. I’d go see it. I bet I could find plenty of other folks would too. I decided I’d write a series of books about a Black lesbian with code name Dutch Chocolate. She has a background in NYPD as a sergeant in East Harlem, before joining the army and going to the Middle East to work in Intel. She returns to work in one of NYPD’s […]
Nov 17

DUTCH CHOCOLATE9: Where is Vita Louise Kane?

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In the 9th novel of the action series Dutch Chocolate, rookie detective Tanya Dodge (from Forever Woman8) searches for Vita Kane, who has simply disappeared. When Tanya’s mother, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Maybelline Dodge, tells her that Vita mentioned a cousin that lived in Wickwire, New York, she takes a leave of absence from the police department. She decides to go in search of the one woman she met that didn’t make her feel less than and listened to her opinions no matter how naïve. She wants to ask Vita why she left the city and would she consider returning to the city with her. Will Tanya find Vita and convince her to be hers, forever? Find out in Dutch Chocolate9, where is Vita Louise Kane? Dutch Chocolate9: Where is Vita Louise Kane? Is now available for order. ASIN: B0DDJGHF3K (Kindle Version $3.99) ASIN: B0DDQ24S14 (Print Version $12.99) Here are the links for: Dutch Chocolate9: Where is Vita Louise Kane? Kindle USA: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DDJGHF3K Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0DDJGHF3K Kindle Print: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DDQ24S14 Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1605295 Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/irTI4_QB6Yc Connect with BL Wilson at these links: My blog: https://wilsonbluez.com/ FB page: https://www.facebook.com/patchworkbluezpress Facebook: https://on.fb.me/1zvTAcl Linked-in: https://linkd.in/1ui0iRu Amazon author page: https://amzn.to/1y7Ncar Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10787497.B_L_Wilson Twitter: https://twitter.com/wilsonbluez Smashwords Interview: […]
Nov 10

WHAT DOES PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE MEAN?

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When I was a kid living in Ohio, I could count on two or three things always happening to me. If it was summertime and school was out, my mother would send my siblings and me outside. We played outside all day after we finished our daily chores which included weeding my mother’s flower garden planted by our house and the large patch of vegetable garden, growing yards away from our lawn. If it was the fall and school was in session, I knew two things. The school’s cafeteria would serve the slimy, nasty-tasting olive-green canned peas I hated. I’d ended up missing lunch recess because the lunchroom teacher believed in the motto “eat everything on your plate” and I didn’t. The second thing that was a guarantee was that I’d start my day just as the other children in my class did, by pledging allegiance. I never thought about the words. I just memorized them. I stood up and faced the American flag hanging in the corner of the classroom every morning. Then I placed my right hand over my heart and repeated the memorized words about the flag and the republic. I knew what a flag was because […]
Nov 01

ELECTION DAY 2016?

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As you can see by the title, I wrote this in 2016. It applies today. I started watching Donald Trump again last summer. I say “again” because I’m a New Yorker. I remembered him from the 1980’s when he redid the Wollman Ice Rink. The city was supposed to rebuild the rink in 1980 but six years and million dollars later, it still wasn’t complete. Trump offered to renovate the rink in 4 months for free. After he completed the rink under-budget and on time, he asked the city to allow him to recoup his expenses by keeping the revenue the rink made until he’d been reimbursed for all of his expenses. He operated the rink and a nearby restaurant from 1986 until 1991. He also operated rink again in 2001 as a joint venture. One of his companies is currently operating the rink. Trump popped up again in 1989, taking out a full-page ad in the Times to bring back the death penalty for the Central Park Jogger’s “supposed assailants” before they were even tried or found guilty. Years later, the Central Park Five’s (as the so-called assailants were now known), convictions were vacated. They all were released from […]
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