Over all this collection of poetry, prose, skits and monologues is about Raising Black, returning to our basics, that is the essentialness of our relationships to friends, family, community & faith yet thru life's Joy's and Pain and finding the stuff of our faith, resiliency and hope again. Please enjoy! Penny Meacham, a Writer, Poet & Performer. I live in Asheville, NC. Writing is a love/hate thing wherein I struggle to get what I want, need, to say out as cleanly & clearly as possible. Inspiration can strike anytime challenging me to relay true. Don't always succeed, I strive on anyway.