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- Toledo, OH
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Congrats on your much needed success...like you I find myself searching for the perfect job or career when my heart lies passionately with writing. Now, I am so happy that I found this site!! :)
Keep doing your thang! lol. WORD.
Chelle
A place for writers to share and learn from each other.
A place for writers to share and learn from each other.
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Wow. That was amazing. Nice to see a different perspective, and to see that some people aren't afraid to take a stand and voice the truth.
"Obama B(l)acklash - negative reaction to the election of America's first black President either due to the assumption that having a black President negates the need for affirmative action or post-election resentment rooted in racism."
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- Relationship Status:
- Single
- About Me:
- I'll admit, I'm a diva - really, I am or I was. I sang operatically in high school, making me a TRUE diva. Although I can't hit as many of those high notes as I used to, I can still "diva-up" when necessary. If I'd use any ONE word to describe myself, however, it would be just that - WORD. Word got me my first writing job as editor-in-chief of my college paper when I wrote an article about being proud to be from the same town as LA Mayor Thomas Bradley (Negro League Baseball player and founder, Rube Foster is also from Calvert, Texas.). Word got me kicked out of school for being a "black militant" (kind of hard to do at a black school!). Word got my first play staged December 16, 1978, in Wichita, Kansas (it's a musical comedy - yes, I wrote all 34 songs - based on Aesops' fable "The Tortoise and the Hare"). Word got me my first "real" writing gig at The Toledo Journal when the editor read an article I wrote titled "The Mammie Myth." Word got me a second newspaper job at The Sojourner's Truth newspaper, also in Toledo. Word even got me into a post-graduate program to study toward an educational specialist degree when I had to write an essay to apply for a grant to be enrolled in a Early Intervention graduate program at The University of Toledo. After 32 years working as an educator fulltime - as an elementary teacher, an educational consultant for a textbook company, a family life educator, a behavior specialist, a habilitation specialist, and finally in administration as a habilitation coordinator- I gave in to Word and am now a fulltime writer and a parttime Marketing Consultant/ Program Development Specialist/ Staff Development Specialist. I just published my first novel, completed a curriculum guide, and re-wrote a play that I'm entering in this year's National Black Theatre Festival's reader's theatre competition. WORD UP!
- Hometown:
- Toledo, Ohio
- Education:
- B.A. (English), M.Ed. (K-8), Ed. Sp.(Early Intervention Education)
- Children:
- only those I've taught and loved and my nephews, nieces, and great nieces
- Interests:
- #1 - Theatre
#2 - Musical Theatre
#3 - One-Act Plays
#4 - Monologues
#5 - Really Good Acting (Forrest Whittakier in "Last King of Scotland")
#6 - Spoken Word (poetry)
#7 - Politics
#8 - Word Puzzles, games (I'm learning Sudoku)
#9 - TV [I love everything except: reality shows (unless they're about fashion or home design), soaps, those judge shows (which are also soaps), sitcoms, & sports]
- Favorite Music:
- Sweet Honey in the Rock
SPECTRUM (a Toledo-Based women's music group that I sang with for 6 years)
My brother, John's reggae band
Almost all Broadway cast albums, especially if the words and/or music were written by Stephen Sondheim
And, of course, classical (the performance of the classical trio at the Inauguration was DOPE!)
I also like the MOTOWN sound of the 1960s, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, and some Gospel music (mostly old stuff, Mahalia Jackson, quartet singing, like the Five Blind Boys, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, and similar groups)
- Favorite Movies:
- Last King of Scotland (with the world's best actor, Forrest Whitakier)
Silence of the Lambs (with two of the world's best actors)
Othello (with Laurence Fishburne)
Hamlet (with Kenneth Branaugh)
I Am Legend (and almost all of Will Smith's movies)
Pulp Fiction (and every other Samuel L. Jackson movie ever made!)
The Usual Suspects (Kaiser Soze!)
Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
Dangerous Laisons (I love Glenn Close!)
Sweet Charity (my favorite musical!)
Citizen Kane (the world's best movie!)
All About Eve (Betty Davis at her best)€
Little Foxes (Betty Davis at her second best)
You Can't Take it With You (one of the world's best comedies)
The Importance of Being Earnest (also a good play made into a movie)
I CAN GO ON AND ON WITH MOVIES, BUT I'll STOP WITH THESE!
- Favorite TV Shows:
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent/SVU/& the Original, Criminal Minds, Damages, NUMB3RS, The Closer, Saving Grace, NCIS, Monk, Burn Notice, In Plain Sight,Trust Me, The Mentalist, CSI: Las Vegas, The Eleventh Hour, Chuck, Rate My Space (HGTV), Morning Joe, Bill Moyers' Journal, NOW, Frontline, Independent Lens, and The McLaughlin Group
- Favorite Books
- Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
For We Are Strangers by Warren Woodberry
Illusions by Richard Bach
Our Young Black Men Are Dying & Nobody Seems to Care (play script) by my brother James Chapmyn
The Book of every play August Wilson ever wrote!
College 101 by my brother Joseph H. Chapman, MBA
I was once also an avid reader of everything written by Stephen King and Anne Rice, both of whom inspired by first novel:
They Just Be Killing White Folks (A Vampire Tale of Bloodlust, Terror, and Horror) by VaJo PaJefChat [my pseudonym]
- Website:
- http://www.lulu.com/content/5743710
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I Ain't Cha Mama (the title of a play about black women moving from mammie to mama to Ms. Thing AND a song for men who have the audacity to call me "Mama"!)
My play I Ain't Cha Mama was written to chart the evolution of black women from their roles as mammies during slavery and immediately afterwards to being somebody's mama with little recognition as anything else to being leaders in a variety of fields. My song "I Ain't Cha Mama" is the answer to men who yell at black women, "Hey, Mama!" I want to sing it every time I meet a man with "mama issues." I haven't yet, but the next time some man starts telling me I remind him of his mother, my response… Continue
Posted on February 2, 2009 at 12:00am —
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- At 10:02pm on March 31, 2009,
Sonya D. Johnson said… - Dear Geneva:
I am sorry for my very late response, which is an issue when balancing many interests, there are not enough hours in the day. Thank you for your generous comment. I hope that all is well with you.
Peace and Blessings,
Sonya
- At 11:47am on March 22, 2009,
Serenity Woman Magazine said…
- Thanks Geneva for the compliments. We try very hard to make Serenity Woman Magazine what it is today. Be sure to tell your friends about Serenity Woman Magazine and enter to win our "Fave 5" contest. I will send details to you shortly. Thanks again for your kind words and I look forward to many more conversations with you!
Teresa B.
www.serenitywoman.com
- At 6:19pm on February 20, 2009,
deb hill said… - Thanks for the invite...
- At 9:27pm on February 19, 2009,
tryandfeelme said… - Thanks you so much! I have a associates degree in Medical assisting, and I am currently working on my bachelors in Healthcare management. I absolutely love the way you express yourself, I use to write a lot, but then I started taking all these classes and the made me feel like my writing was well... too raw I guess. I think once people start telling you how to write, it scares you a little, at least for me it works that way. anyway I am very happy to be a part of this group, this is cool.
- At 10:40pm on February 11, 2009,
alisha brown said…
- yea, I'm down!
- At 1:40pm on February 9, 2009,
Foxyandfun said… - We do have many things in common I did work at a behavior place and a residental facility. I would like to continue to talk with you and get to know more about you if that is something you would be interested in. Thanks for dropping me a line and I pray that all is well with you. Be Blessed!
- At 12:57am on February 9, 2009,
Fashionista said… - Thanks.... I love this pic too. I'm very new to the site so if you could tell me how to join groups, that would be great.
- At 11:40pm on February 8, 2009,
Ashleigh said…
- I am in the "finding myself"" stage of life... I recently graduated from MSU after 5 long years and I hate my job. My grad program begins in the fall but I am trying to figure out whats next. A discussion about what other people are doing/ what they would have done differently in this stage of life would interest me greatly.
- At 8:34pm on February 8, 2009,
Leslie said… - Nyong is more the writer in the family.. but he wouldn't be too interested in this particular site... (cause he's a guy and all..)
I'll mention it to Gyasi -- she's pretty big on Facebook. I am too. Joseph just got on and is looking for classmates from Newton HS. Check it out if you haven't already. I'm actually chatting right now with an old friend from public/high school that I just reconnected with.
- At 5:13pm on February 8, 2009,
Leslie said…
- In learning more about you through your profile and with each WORD so eloquently stated throughout this blog -- I imagine you sitting in front of the screen, letters forming words like butter melting over kernels of a corn cob. Oh with such ease how it all comes forth..
Diva -- you make it look simple -- but I know that it's not.. I know that it's not because I am a writer like you -- I sit here quietly in my beautifully little made up room with my sun drenched walls and mosaic drapes searching deep within myself to hear what needs to be said... what must be shared with the world at this point in time...
The creative process is so beautiful.. the uncertainty yet the all knowing... the churning that at times derives that not fully being able to articulate IT -- that IT ... that so wants to surface and make ITself known ...
Later..
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