Monday, June 30, 2014

WHY I WRITE BOOKS

SHARING MY THOUGHTS about why I write books – 1. My books are primarily a salute to the resilience, the stubborn insistence, of Black Americans to be active citizens in a country that still, to this day, functions in the shadows of slavery. My parents and grandparents loved America; I love American – not because of Abraham Lincoln or the founding-fathers, but because my parents, grandparent, and ancestors worked bled and died to make it our home. The Elaine Riot of 1919 was but one of many rebellions by Negroes around the country that year - history records those rebellions as the Red Summer of 1919. Elaine, Arkansas was the site of the riot: the riot was sparked by Negro Sharecroppers attempting to form a Sharecroppers Union. If you’re a reader click on the site – If you’re not a reader, click anyway. www.adolphusward.net

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

ON AGING AND GRAVITY

JUST SHARING a few thought on aging and gravity. A while back I looked at myself in a mirror and discovered I’d morphed into ET, that wrinkly little extra-terrestrial in science fiction. True, 6 feet 2 is not short; but there was no denying the bags under my eyes, the drape of flesh beneath my chin, the saggy tit’s that used to be pect’s, and the ass that was no longer there. I can understand the tug of gravity on every part of my aging body, but I don’t understand what happened to my ass – what the fuck happened to my ass. True, I never had a big ass, but I did have enough to hold my pants up. Now it looks as if what I did have has melted away – maybe that’s what naturally happens to an aging ass, it just melts away. www.adolphusward.net

Sunday, June 1, 2014

CONFLICT INFLUENCES BEHAVIOR

I’m sharing and selling - I am who and what I am by the choices I’ve made. No one, nothing has contributed more to who and what I am than me. It was and is my choice my behavior that makes me who I am. In my novels I look at how conflict influences character behavior. www.adolphusward.net.