by Liz A | Oct 19, 2021 | Pepper and Bear
Valentine Excerpt from Easy Street: Based on my mother’s memoir Without averting her eyes from the tabernacle, Baba brushed the top of Diane’s head with a kiss. The beads of her rosary slid through her knotted fingers, click, click. Over and over, she murmured her...
by Liz A | Aug 16, 2021 | Pepper and Bear
Battle buddies A note with the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaching and current events. As a long time Army wife, I’m not really surprised at the current chaos in the Middle East, and doubt most of those who served there or who’ve intimately supported the troops, is...
by Liz A | Aug 13, 2021 | Pepper and Bear
Lessons from “Mutilated crumbs and gummy worms” The continuing chronicles of an Army wife and mother “Here Lies Lizzy. She cleaned up crap well! This is the epitaph that will go on my gravestone,” I had blurted out my chosen epitaph along with a handful of expletives,...
by Liz A | Aug 1, 2021 | Pepper and Bear
Black Loyalist Harry Washington Survivor of slavery, war, and disease, Harry Washington spent his life fighting for the same rights his former owner, George Washington, did in the American Revolution. Born in West Africa and brought to America about 1760, Harry...
by Liz A | Jul 3, 2021 | Pepper and Bear
Patriot spy and enslaved African American James Lafayette Patriot spy and enslaved African American, James Lafayette, was instrumental in helping defeat the British during the American Revolution. Despite the British promising freedom to enslaved African Americans...
by Liz A | Jun 19, 2021 | Pepper and Bear
Monuments to our heroes Right before my 18th birthday I took my first flight from Cleveland to attend the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University in Minnesota. Upon arrival, while strolling through the freshman dorm’s foyer, I met Eric, a cadet a few years...
