new era

 Barack Obama,an African American has been elected President. I have lived a long time, brain disease or not, to see the color barriers in America fall.  My father owned a restaurant when I was young. A separate table with a separate water fountain  was in the back hall for any Black people who wanted to eat there. I remember other such degradations but I will save them for an essay.  

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 05 2008 by Diane Bechtler and is filed under Meanderings.

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Diane Hoover Bechtler earned her MFA from Queens University in Charlotte, NC, where she lives with her husband, Michael Gross who is a poet with a day job. She has a cat named Call Me IshMeow.

Diane has been published in journals such as The Dead Mule, School of Southern Literature and Thema Literary Journal. As well as writing short stories, she is looking for an agent for her memoir, Losing Balance.