Black History Month: The Buffalo Soldier Who Went to West Point by Alice Adams Henry Ossian Flipper began life as a slave, March 21, 1856, in Thomasville, Georgia, the eldest of six boys. His parents, Festus and Isabelle Flipper, were owned by Ephraim G. Ponder, a wealthy plantation owner, who encouraged his slaves to excel in Read more
Serendipity: A Love Story By Alice Adams Our eyes first met when neither of us was looking. I was sitting on my friend’s Ursula’s living room floor. We were surrounded by papers. Ursula was doing post-grad work for another law degree. I was editing her paper on “The Polluter Pays Principle.” We had been working Read more
The Perfect Funeral by Alice Adams One evening my husband and I had a conversation about our final tributes. It began because we had just attended another family funeral, which was, with all due respect, just awful—like the last half-dozen funerals we had attended. We didn’t want to bore our family with yet another sit-in-the-pew Read more
Requiem for a Ponytail Originally Posted on Jewish Herald Voice by Alice Adams Five days a week for more than 30 years, my husband, Ron, had arisen, showered, and dressed in a coat and tie—the required “uniform” for male educators since he began his career in the late 1950s. Then, after teaching high school math Read more
Patients Regain Bladder & Bowel Control after New, Non-Invasive Procedure Originally posted in the Houston Chronicle by Alice Adams Last holiday season Andrea again turned down numerous invitations, trapped in her own home by urinary incontinence—loss of bladder control. The leakage from her bladder had begun when she laughed, sneezed, or lifted something heavy. At first, Read more
