Faye McCray

Junot Diaz interviewed Toni Morrison last Thursday and it was broadcast live on YouTube, sponsored by New York Public Library. I hadn’t heard about the event before last Thursday and when a good friend of mine sent me the link, I damn near crashed my car.  Toni Morrison is my favorite author of all time…

As a mother of a first grader, my heart breaks every time I see these beautiful faces and remember the senseless and violent way their precious lives ended.  My thoughts and heart are with these little souls today and everyday.  Mommies and Daddies, we will never forget your beautiful angels.  We will also never forget those heroic teachers…

While waiting for my eldest to get out of school, I saw a girl, no older than nine, walking with her nose in a Beverly Clearly book.  She was so focused on her book she tripped twice, and was hit square in the face by a stray snowball from the group of boys having a snowball fight beside her. …

I always get overly introspective at the end of the year.  Though time is relative and New Years Eve is really just another day, the end of the year always fills me with nostalgia.  I miss the good memories, am anxious to get beyond the bad ones and hopeful about what lies ahead.  This time last year, I was hitting ‘publish’ on…

CONGRATS, Lisa K. and Melanie P.! Now repeat after me, I promise… not to… download Drake or Ke$ha.  Okay, we’re good here. Thank you ALL again for your support! *** I reached 200 Likes on Facebook!   I can’t tell you how much it means to me that 200 folks have clicked ‘like’ on my…

Hey err’buddy! An article I wrote on marriage is up on Black and Married With Kids.  Check it out here.  For those of you that followed my work at We of Hue, it is spin off of a piece I wrote titled, Raising a Single Mom a few years ago. If you enjoy it, please…