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Welcome to my new creative writing site. You will find only original content here. I consider this to be a safe space to voice my opinions on current events, share short stories and poetry, all written by me! I plan to also post photographs here that highlight my travel experiences. This very well could be my first step to becoming a published author! Becoming an author is something I’ve mused about for years.

I retired from the Federal government in 2023. I spent 33 years serving the American citizenry, and I take great pride in the service I provided. However, during those 33 years, I spent a lot of time musing about being a writer. While pursuing my undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I considered majoring in Journalism but finally settled on English. I’ve always enjoyed writing. I possess deep familial roots in southeastern North Carolina and southwestern Virigina where my flair for storytelling was cultivated. At my core, no matter where I choose to live, I will always be a Southerner. Several of my family members reveled in great storytelling. Some just told funny stories about everyday life, while ours used their storytelling skills to teach the younger generation about history and their ancestors. Many of them farmed, and from the rich agrarian culture I grew up around I like telling stories about that way of life. I really enjoy writing short rural narratives that center around my ancestors. Many of these stories are fictious but the people in the stories actually existed. I am keenly aware of the contributions my family, and families like mine, made in building the nation we live in today. These stories are very important in keeping our historical memories intact. We, as a people and nation cannot know where we are headed without knowing where we have been. Many younger generations have no knowledge of what happened before they were born, where the food they eat comes from, or how the food they eat is grown and harvested. Many of them are ignorant of systems that have been in place in this country since its origins. This dumbing down of the citizenry is causing major issues that are manifesting in negative ways today. Many of my short stories aid to not only entertain but educate and inform like many of the famous American authors that came before me.

So that’s that my two cents. Please feel free to let me know if you like or dislike the stories being posted here in a respectful manner, of course!

Tamara

Only Uncertainity lies ahead

What will your life be like in three years?

No one knows what the next second, minute, hour, day, or week has in store for us. We must live through those measures of time to truly find out what will happen next. Yet, we still plan, set goals, and pray for our desired manifestations to come to past. In most cases many outside forces are affecting the outcomes we pray to manifest in our lives, yet we focus on the parts of those outcomes that we can control. Or, at least that is how it normally has worked for me! But today I feel the nation has moved into some new unwelcomed realm.

For most of my life, and I am now 59 years old, I felt the world was mine to conquer. If I failed, I viewed the failure as my fault. But now I no longer feel that way. I feel as if my country, or at least 45%  or so of it, along with the leaders running the government are working to ensure all I have built is destroyed. I feel that my very life, liberty, and ability to pursue happiness can be ripped away from me in the blink of an eye. Most of my ancestors lived their entire lives under these constraints and citizens of many other countries fully understand living life under these dynamics. I now understand living under the pressures of these dynamics too.

As an African American living in the so-called land of the free I now understand all too well that for over 60 years a certain segment of the American population has been silently working hard to destroy my right to live freely in this country. Because of this hatred of my people, I really have no idea where I will be living in the next three years. I may be living in a foreign country waiting for the rebellion that surely will arise to put down the kleptocratic government in charge. Or, and I pray daily, that the good in humankind will peacefully see to the definitive neutralization of this evil regime in next year’s midterms.

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