Month: January 2011

Written by Alan King

The Journey for the Unseen Beauty

Editor’s note: The essay below is in response to the What Book Changed Your Life Contest by Marita Golden. Winners receive an autographed copy of Marita Golden’s newest book THE WORD: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing. Submission deadline: February 5, 2011. Click here for more contest info. When Shake […]

Written by Alan King

2010 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys mulled over how this blog did in 2010. Thank you to everyone who visited the blog, shared stories and helped spread the word. Here’s a high level summary by the folks at WordPress.com of this blog’s overall health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can […]