Upcoming Works: The Fall 2019 Edition
Hey what's going on?It's me again, Nicole Alicia coming to you from my living room, writing this blog this afternoon. I am trying to squeeze in a little post before I have to rush off to do my hair (so I don't look to crazy for my friends baby shower tomorrow) and before I have to run and get my kids from daycare/school.I just wanted to do a quick post about what I'm working on. Maybe for verification to myself that I am actually "getting back to the writing" as I say, and partially to update you, my lovely readers who continue to hang in there with me and read my ish (I really appreciate you ALL).I had this idea come to me over a year and half ago that I started working on, but I got stuck and then health problems slipped in, making the decision to grow our family through fostering, life and yada yada yada.I'm obsessed with vintage culture as many of you know I have two vintage shops online because of my obsession Dear Alice Co. and Blu-83 Vintage.,<---------SHAMELESS PLUG :)
Because If I decided to keep all the cool stuff I find, my husband will kick me out LOL :) Just joking, but I do have a slight vintage collecting problem, so I thought why not share, and sell some of the stuff I find right?
But in addition to the whole "vintage thing", I love black history.I love hearing stories from the elders on how life used to be or how things were when they were young. I also started researching my families ancestry Summer of 2018. Now on my mother's mother's side my Grandma Alice, there's a lot of mystery and also not that many elders left to get information from, but it was interesting what I found out.Also surrounding that, I specifically love hearing about Kansas City and how it was "back in the day".
So, I decided to run with these two topics and began to write what is most of our grandparents story. How during the "Great Migration" if you will, during the late 1930's and 40's our Great-Grandparents and Grandparents came from the South to the "Big City" to start a life.I don't of course want to give it all away, but I think you get where I'm going.P.S. This will be a novel....not sure if it will be my second or third ;)A lot of the time, we don't want to look back. But if you look close enough you can see that really like the Bible and my Daddy say, "There's nothing new under the sun".Until next time....