By Joy Lynn Clark April 22, 2022 A couple of weeks ago I decided to put the site, “under maintenance”. It has been weird. For the past few years my thoughts can be accessed by anybody from anywhere whenever they choose. It was a breath of fresh air once again. As I fired up my laptop and I put on my headphones and went to my comfortable place of singing and producing music. It was bittersweet. Boy was I glad to have the music back in my life but boy was I said too. I started to reminisce about all of the sexism and racism that I always encounter just…

By Joy Lynn Clark April 4, 2022 Remember that show that me and Besty went on right after high school? It was the Jerry Springer show. I didn’t wanna tell a soul because I thought that my parents would be mad at me but, my mom saw it. I blushed because it was so wild, but it was OK.

April 1, 2022 By Joy Lynn Clark As a kid, I always looked forward to visiting my grandparents. My mom and dad grew up down the street from one another so I always had an awesome visit seeing them both. On my mom side there were lots of kids and when I was super young, some of them still lived at home. I was the only, “little” kid then but I loved playing with those super cool teenagers. Back then my mom and my grandparents siblings would visit periodically. Whenever my great aunt and uncle would visit there would be a huge catfish and chicken fry. I really didn’t like…

March 31, 2022 By Joy Lynn Clark Throughout my life I have always had a weekend trip or sometimes a weeklong vacation in the country. By country I mean right around the lake in Michigan. I have been there many times. On mom’s side we would travel to our favorite orchard to pick apples and grapes. This orchard is the kind where patrons buy a wooden bushel basket and fill them up. I always wanted a really special thing with the apples but we mainly just eat them for a snack. Grandma‘s real specialty was wine and vinegar. As a kid, I had had plenty of vinegar to put on…