by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Nov 5, 2020
When I say the country has spoken, I bet you think I am talking about the election. Oh, but I am not. If we learned anything from a history not taught, but carefully doled out and reinforced, and then piece-mealed into neat little months of the history of “the other,”...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Oct 21, 2020
I have sons under the age of 30 and a part of their world is watching videos uploaded to social media sites. More and more, these videos are of real life conflicts that have captured the attention of tweens, teens and adults all over the globe. With the ushering in of...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Sep 9, 2020
My mom was a huge music fan, so my sister and I were blessed to hear music all the time in our household. Some songs a little too often if you asked us, but hey… what can you do? One song I remember touching me deeply is Alfie sung by Dionne Warwick. What a voice....
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Jul 29, 2020
What’s it been like emotionally to be an African American woman in America? That’s a question asked of me frequently these days. It has been a constant deferment of emotions. An almost daily setting off of fires in my heart, building to an explosion that my mouth...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Jul 8, 2020
I woke up this morning with fear nagging at my heart and my gut. It started last night. I couldn’t sleep, which was curious because it had been a good day. I laid awake until 2am as the same difficult conversation I had earlier with my son played for the last time in...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | May 27, 2020
Mental health awareness is more than a week. My teenage son woke up a few weeks ago and said “You know who I am praying for? I am praying for the people who are dealing with depression and anxiety. I know how hard it was for me when I was depressed to be...
