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Why I Teach Ebony Visions and Cowrie Shell Dreams: Black Storytelling and Children’s Literature Across the Generations
IN 1967, after a four-month stint in corporate America, I announced to my supervisor that the job was not my suit of clothes. She was...
jonetta rose barras
Jan 31, 20246 min read
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AN EMPTY BOOK?
HAVE you ever opened a book, started reading, and had zero to no idea what you were reading? Maybe there were even a few missing pages. ...
jonetta rose barras
Feb 3, 20233 min read
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Survival of the Fittest
IN Science class, I've learned about natural selection and how it causes animals to adapt and evolve to their environment using inherited...
jonetta rose barras
Jan 8, 20233 min read
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AN ANOMALY NO MORE
MY mother has bestowed upon me many advantageous lessons in the form of beatings, groundings, and neglect. "You need to learn to be okay...
jonetta rose barras
Jan 8, 20234 min read
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DANCE, DANCE DANCE
“A lot of suffering happens when we are thinking about the past or the future; we go over and over those things in our mind,” Horan says....
jonetta rose barras
May 21, 20221 min read
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I WILL SMILE
LEANNE Brady once expressed the following sentiments, “So yes, today I am full of sorrow, But I will smile a little more with each...
jonetta rose barras
Feb 10, 20223 min read
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Pieces of him, Pieces of me
A lot of my life I have been piecing together different parts of my dad, like a puzzle but without all the pieces. Well, a puzzle made up...
jonetta rose barras
Jan 9, 20223 min read
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Discovering the Strength Within Me
“It is for the best.” “You have to be strong.” “Why are you crying?” “Why aren’t you crying?” “You have to be strong.” “It’s part of...
jonetta rose barras
Dec 14, 20214 min read
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MANY MANY MEN
BECAUSE I am authoring this essay, you might be thinking that my dad’s absence brought me to a higher point in life, made me independent,...
jonetta rose barras
May 9, 20215 min read
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Just Don’t Bother!
I don't know who you are, or where you are, I really don't know why it would even matter. I'm your 9-year-old daughter and you are my dad...
jonetta rose barras
Apr 8, 20211 min read
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Forgiving Fair-Weathered Fatherhood
Sometimes, a person can say everything without a word. Other times, silence just isn't enough. On October 18, 2014, I saw my father for...
jonetta rose barras
Apr 7, 20215 min read
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An 'Undistancing' PandemicProposal for Fathers and Daughters
By Linda Nielsen The Covid-19 crisis presents a rare and much-needed opportunity to repair and strengthen father–daughter relationships....
jonetta rose barras
May 10, 20202 min read
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Spotlight: Destiny I. Dicks
How Does It Feel Having A Father? I don't know. I never really have.
jonetta rose barras
Apr 1, 20203 min read
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Growing Up Without A Father
When I was four months old, my father was sent to prison for being involved in gang-related activities that he never mentioned to me.
jonetta rose barras
Dec 18, 20193 min read
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The Man Across the Street
My father is that man who works across the street from where I live.
jonetta rose barras
Dec 18, 20194 min read
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