For my second cup of coffee this morning I decided to substitute the coffee (and the caffeine) for a hot Chicory drink, the chicory representing freedom, insight and empowerment. I’m drinking it now as I share this with you. The word that jumps out to me is freedom. The idea of it. Because I question if I’ve ever truly felt free. The idea of freedom sounds fabulous. But what does it truly mean to me. Or you for that matter. Does our individual takes on freedom match up with o

I didn't save the post because at the time that I saw it, I brushed it off. But the idea of what she said, the gist, stayed with me. And this is why I am sharing this: The gist was that the white lady was doing artwork representing the black woman as source. She received some hate-filled love from someone who said 'go back to Africa.' The white lady went on to describe herself as white with the inference that she wasn't of the land colonially renamed Africa. This is what I w

Month In Review On the heels of turning 60 in July, August felt like a bridge from the old to the new. Like all roads have been leading here. Me and Chloe Josephine That feeling was reinforced in two spectacular ways. After I closed my entertainment business back in 2021, I put performing tribute shows on the back burner, with only the occasional one-off here and there. My last one-off show happened at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2024. Or so I thought. Last autumn, I receiv