I belong on the Reasonable couch. *Rabid Steelers Fan* @ShilohCarnegie #TJAMS
Jun 25, 2020 • 25 tweets • 10 min read
I have to tell y’all something.
Last night I had an amazing conversation with my Black brother. He was living with me when Obama was elected the first time and since then we talk politics more openly than I do with most people IRL.
We talk all the time, but last night we had a long conversation...
Oct 31, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Since so many of you are new Peeps of mine... and because I'm feeling like tweeting about it... Domestic Violence Awareness Month holds significance for me for very personal reasons... 20 years ago, on November 8th, 1998, my father murdered my mother, then killed himself.
My father wasn't "physically" abusive to me while I was growing up, not in the way you'd imagine, He did like to choke me when he was really angry. I just didn't realize that this wasn't normal behavior. At some point when a friend witnessed it in horror, I figured it out.