A Little Something to Cook on My Way Up North

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I started this book in 1992 with plan to publish the same year. Since that time I have constantly been on the move with a three year on site contract in South Africa and even more than any thing else, I have lost someone who truly was responsible for everything than I am and hope to be. That person was my wise, loving and beautiful courageous caring mother. (You will find three poems about my mom in this book, she did get a chance to have them read to her before she past, during her 89th year, her response was boy "you learn that in school ", I can't tell you coming from her just how good I felt) As you explore this book, I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do. My plan was to produce a book with just a little different twist that will entertain, educate and amuse all of you. It is very difficult to not have things around you effect how you feel or react in life, some of those experiences are reflected in this book. Over the years I have had the experience sharing experiences with two special people Johnny and Dale Cochran and enjoying a side most Americans do not know. I witness his passion and support for those less fortunate within the La area. I seen his love, care and concern for his wife Dale his children, mother and father I have seen a woman who truly stands by her man. I witness Bill Gray 111 as a congressman walk away from all the power trapping of Washington D.C. to give his service to Bright Hope Baptist Church (where he has been a great preached since 1973) Bill Gray played a very key role in implementing economic sanctions against South Africa as the author of the 1985 and 1986 sanction bills in congress. Fifty years from now, the world will began just how significant that was. He has led the United Negro college Fund to a level no one ever expected bringing in billions of dollars to help sustain historic black universities across the century. This allowed him devote much more time to his loving family. In a tribute to him I wrote and still believe