MY NAME is Charlotte A. Clark-Frieson.  I am 52 and in the midst of my mid-life crisis…. 

I am an educator, AND an entrepreneur. Yet in reality, I don’t know who the hell I really am.  At 52 years old, it seems as though I just decided to try to find myself.

I’ve done a lot of things in my life, yet, it seems I had never done anything worth a darn, until I decided to pursue my life-long dream to be a writer.

Thus, in a futile attempt to salvage the remaining years of my life, I’m starting this blog, about 20 years late.

Because I didn’t actually start trying to fulfill my life-long dream to be a writer until I hit 50, I’m now trying to play catch-up.  So, believing that I didn’t really have time to submit my manuscript to 150 traditional publishers, and be turned down 150 times, before finally having it be accepted, I self-published my first book entitled “Chief Cook and Bottle-Washer” The Unconquerable Soul Of Wilkie Clark.   

Here’s What it looks like:
The book is a biography about a man that I really loved and adored.  My father.  

Because of him, I am a deep thinker.  I am concerned not only about education, I’m concerned about the realities of life….black life in particular…..because I am a black woman, trying to live and survive in a world dominated by the white middle class.

I am a christian, although daily, definitions and perceptions of christianity are changing as often as the sun rises and sets…

All my life, I have maintained a very deep concern about politics, racism, and hypocrisy in everything.  I spend a lot of time meditating on economics and economic empowerment. 

Thus, these are the things I write about.

So deep was the concern and influence that my father had on me, until I started a Foundation in his honor.

Last year (2005) we launched a Black Weekly newspaper.  On July 22, 2005, we published our inaugural edition of The People’s Voice Black Weekly News.  I write a column (most weeks) in The People’s Voice, which you will find posted here on my blog as well.  

Want to know more about me.  It’s okay.  My life is an open book.  Visit me on myspace.com.   Here’s The Link:   http://www.myspace.com/caclarkfrieson

Hope you like what you see.

Charlotte A. Clark-Frieson