Is Life Fair?

People often parrot the words: Life isn’t fair. It’s not that life isn’t fair, it is our callousness in taking advantage of the disadvantaged that creates a disparity. It’s all a game of monopoly, the game board is an illusion. We might own all the wealth and our larder might be overflowing but at the […]

Grown Folks

All grown folks know that change is constant and that consequences are a natural occurrence. Why is it we act on impulse knowing that there will be a debt to pay? Why do we believe we can act with impunity without facing condemnation? Some of us live a life of folly, forgetting that the debtor […]

My Take On Humanity

Most of the people who walk this Earth are ghoulish ghosts some of them levitating, some perp walking. None can trust what most say because they all have become talking heads, spinning tales like salesmen/women whose only interest is garnering a sale. Words without action is like a boat without sails. We are all careening […]

Spinners

Children spins toy tops, while adults spin tales. We hide under the cloak of superiority and religion, espousing lies like a leaking faucet. The devil isn’t in hell, he is alive each day in the hearts and minds of those who practice debauchery and depravity as a way of life. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025

Games

All of us from time to time indulge in playing games. People aren’t pieces on a chess board, we feel, we see, we hear. Brutality and barbarity isn’t a winning strategy. We need to ask ourselves what is the legacy we are fostering, is it one of barbarism or humanitarianism? How we will be remembered […]

Emancipation Day

For people who were trafficked to South America and the West Indies, I hope I haven’t excluded anyone, today marks the day we were emancipated. We need to ask ourselves: How can one declare the right to themselves to keep another being chained in perpetuity because they believe it is right to do so, and […]