by Jemelene | Oct 1, 2020 | Mama Jem, My News Review Columns
Note: Following the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon i write a piece that was published in the News Review. This is a follow-up to the original article. On the first day of October 2015 I was training for a new position at work. The...
by Jemelene | May 9, 2019 | Mama Jem, My Posts at The Glorious Table, Pastor Jem
At the age of twenty-seven, I stood in a church on Mother’s Day and wept. I’d been diagnosed with a condition that made it difficult to bear children, and being a mother had been the dream of my life. Even in elementary school, my career goals always revolved around...
by Jemelene | Dec 27, 2018 | Mama Jem, My Posts at The Glorious Table
I remember crawling under the Christmas tree as a small child, before the packages were in place. Those first few years we didn’t have lights on the tree, we had a spotlight under the plate glass window shining on the carefully placed ornaments. I remember the warmth...
by Jemelene | Sep 30, 2018 | Mama Jem, My News Review Columns
Author’s Note: On October 1, 2015 our town was shattered by the unthinkable. A shooter entered a classroom on our small community college campus and killed nine of our own as well as wounding nine others. My response that next day was a piece that reflected my...
by Jemelene | May 17, 2018 | Archived Jem, Mama Jem, My News Review Columns
It was a Saturday and I was expecting guests the next afternoon to celebrate my 6-week old baby. I was staring at a tray of cake crumbs stuck together with blobs of icing. They were supposed to be Petit fours. I had followed Martha Stewart’s step-by-step...
by Jemelene | May 11, 2015 | Mama Jem, Pastor Jem
It’s natural to be want to be right. There is something about walking out life on a platform where your word and thoughts are set out for the world to read. Ideas come from research or personal experience, either way, that’s what this writing thing is...
