I took a break from writing my column in the newspaper over the holidays and into January, and I really missed it. So now I’m back, and Sunday my column was about a totally cool collection of photos that The Brooks acquired, from the old Memphis World newspaper, which closed in 1974. I’ve seen them all (the one on this post is a Hooks Brothers photo of the Zeta Phi Beta sorors at “Carmen Jones” at the Ellis Auditorium in 1953). Most of the photos are as fascinating as this one, mostly for the ordinary life of middle-class black Memphians they show. The photos will be part of an exhibit that goes up at the Brooks and Rhodes later this summer.

Even though I needed a column break, I never really run out of ideas, but if you’ve been wondering why I write the way I do, and have a suggestion for something for me to write about, please send it along. Hope I’ll hear from you …