Lucinda (Cindy) Foster Grace's Page

I had some incredible offers to help Teresa with her website and website hosting. Thank you so much. I'm always moved by the kindness and generosity of others.

In the meantime, I have a rudimentary page up on Facebook. Go there and become a fan!

http://tinyurl.com/5jm2dx

Also, I received an email from Teresa today. She had been to the library so she could access the internet. I had emailed her a link to the blog story so she would know what the internet world was doing to get her message out.… Continue

For about two years now, on my personal blog www.fuzzyredrobe.blogspot.com, some of you have been reading about my friend Teresa who survived God only knows what in the Sudan to come to the United States and make a life for herself and her three boys.

Well much to the delight of all, she's launched her non-profit to help the folks back in her native Bor, South Sudan. Her goal is to build a clinic that can provide classes on the basics of being a single mother like proper nutrition and preventat… Continue

This is a novella cleverly disguised as a blog post. Enter at your own risk.

As readers of this blog, I hope you are entertained or moved. Red in this instance is merely a writer’s device used in a feeble attempt to tie all of my wayward notions together. However, as you read, I think you might find it uncanny, as I did, how important the color red seems to be in my life.

Deconstructing the superficial theme of red is ultimately NOT the primary purpose of this entry. It is the need for persona… Continue

I'm a child of the '80s. Well, more accurately, I was a young adult of the '80s. I graduated college in 1982 and embarked on a career as a copywriter in the corporate world of large advertising agencies. An environment that one colleague of mine fondly referred to as Sodom and Gomorrah. It was my version of Bright Lights, Big City without the cocaine. Oh believe me...cocaine was around and in abundance. I was just the offspring of a pharmacist who promised to kick my once skinny arse should he e… Continue

The first rule of keeping a Mom happy is:

Don't yell at her at 6 a.m. because she has the unmitigated audacity to tell you that she wants you to stop smoking...especially when you've been coughing for over a month and she foots the bills for the health insurance, the co-pays and the medication required to keep you healthy even though you choose to do something that is most definitely unhealthy. And because she loves you beyond reason.

Also, don't threaten her with "Not having a close relations… Continue