Roslyn's Black Pioneers Part 4/4: Remembering Harriet Joyce (Craven) Hawkins
Harriet Joyce (Craven) Hawkins (July 6, 1928 to May 27, 2020) holding her daughter, Merrilee Smith (photo courtesy of the Craven family)....
Roslyn's Black Pioneers Part 3/4
Part 3/4 Ethel Craven-Sweet in her beautiful yellow graduation dress. She was the Valedictorian of Easton High School in 1953 (Photo...
Roslyn's Black Pioneers: Part 2/4
(Jim Shepperson, the man with the suspenders, is the businessman who convinced Black miners to come to Roslyn back in 1888/89. He...
Roslyn Black Pioneers Part 1/4
Samuel Craven, one of Roslyn's most respected miners, beloved husband to Ethel Florence Williams Craven, loving father to 13 (image...
Chapter Five of The Emblem
The Emblem is told in two time periods, the 1930's and the late 1880's. Here's a passage that follows one of the first Black miners to...
Holding Both in Tension
We're a month in to the social distancing mandate due to the threat of COVID-19, and I don't have something particularly original to...
The Emblem: Chapter One
Chapter One: March 1889 When he emerged from underground after hours of toil, David couldn’t deny the protest of his back any longer. But...
Work that Matters: Creating your Masterpiece
*written for "Choices" magazine/ summer 2019 edition There's nothing like a milestone to make you take inventory of your life's...
Write What You Know?
Write what you know.” I believe it’s the most common writing advice an aspiring author will hear. It’s a worthy consideration, but it’s...
The Internal Landscape: Finding Your Resilience
written for "Choices" magazine If Washington state is known for anything in its late August days, its the detrimental wildfires....
