Sleeping Under the Stars in a Gated Community

Sleeping Under the Stars in a Gated Community

It is always great when I get invited back to a site for a sleepover. Last year we attempted to sleep under the stars among the ruins of the tabby slave cabins on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina. Mother Nature had other ideas, a violent thunderstorm and rain that...
Sleepovers, White Privilege and Comfort Zones

Sleepovers, White Privilege and Comfort Zones

As I lay in the cabin I couldn’t help but think of the people who had lived within the wooden walls of our tiny room. Oh if the walls could talk; the stories they could tell. The joys of new birth, the sorrow at loss; the immense pain and burden of working so hard...