It’s time to bring you back to the future.  Fall 2010 was the busiest of my 23 year career.  Busy but not hard because everything I was doing I was doing by choice.  So busy that I got way behind in updating my website which is why I have to take you back to get to the present.

     The only place to start is with April 2010 when my memoir “Making Gumbo in the University” was published.   My favorite bookstore, Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books, hosted a reading and book signing for me on the evening of April 29th.  That was quite a night; about 100 people were in attendance.

      And it was extraordinary night and weekend because my sister Elinor, her daughter Tresha and my “little” brother Phillip all came to Raleigh to support me.

     I read from “Making Gumbo…” to give the audience a taste of the flavors of the book.  That gave me the opportunity to present my ideas about diversity in general and diversity on university campuses.  And for me that means engaging people in a dialogue; pushing for a conversation that opens people up to other perspectives and shows people how to respect each others’ perspectives.  On that point I ended my reading by reading from the book’s prologue.  “Daddy liked his conversation the way he liked his gumbo.”

     Then the reading turned into a classroom session.  I took questions and slipped into my professor persona. 

     Really that’s not my fault.  Members of the audience asked real questions about matters of diversity and so I was off and running.  In fact, I had to remind the bookstore staff that they should stop me so that I would have time to sign books.  It was quite an evening.

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