Editorial THE BLACK CARD: BIG MAMA SAID: YOU NEED TO CALL A SPADE A SPADE AND END THE GAME! By Terry Allen If Lucille “Big Mama’s Allen had lived her prime during this new digital season, then her rules of thumb taken out... Garland JournalJune 10, 2022
Editorial THE BLACK CARD: BIG MAMA SAID: “YOU PUT YOUR FOOT IN IT” We Have to Prevent the Tragedies in our Communities from Buffalo to El Paso and Save Our Democracy Garland JournalMay 27, 2022
Editorial THE BLACK CARD: BIG MAMA SAID: GIVE PEOPLE THEIR ROSES WHILE THEY CAN SMELL THEM! THANK YOU FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED MARY S. MCFALL! By Terry Allen I don’t think I will get much disagreement when I pull this “Big Mama” rule out of her Play-book. On the... Garland JournalMay 13, 2022
Editorial THE BLACK CARD: BIG MAMA SAID: DON’T MAKE A BED YOU DO NOT WANT TO LAY IN By Terry Allen Lucille “Big Mama” Allen’s birth in 1906 sparked an imprint that created a lesson for a life-time. Her lesson empowered all... Garland JournalApril 29, 2022
Editorial THE BLACK CARD: BIG MAMA SAID: THE LONGEST JOURNEY IS FROM YOUR HEAD TO YOUR HEART. KELVIN JOSEPH AND OTHERS – WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? By Terry Allen Every Sunday evening, we knew a lesson was about to come when Lucille “Big Mama” Allen sat on the back porch... Garland JournalApril 22, 2022
Editorial THE BLACK CARD: BIG MAMA SAID IF THE GRAVY ON YOUR PLATE DON’T FALL ON MINE THEN YOUR GRAVY IS NO GOOD By Terry Allen Lucille “Big Mama” Allen wanted us to know that no matter, if we were not being a servant to others then... Garland JournalApril 15, 2022
Editorial The Black Card: BIG MAMA SAID: Blessing are like boomerangs. You have to send them out to get them back! By Terry Allen One of the greatest lessons taught to me from Lucille “Big Mama” Allen’s playbook became a common saying in the family.... Garland JournalMarch 17, 2022
Editorial THE BLACK CARD: BIG MAMA SAID: TRY ME AND YOU WILL REAP WHAT YOU SOW By Terry Allen When Lucille “Big Mama” Allen stood in the doorway between the kitchen and the “big room” and spoke from her playbook,... Garland JournalFebruary 18, 2022
Editorial BIG MAMA SAID: JOB WELL DONE, RECOGNIZE GOD HAD A PURPOSE FOR YOU, HOLLYWOOD By Terry Allen When any of us completed a chore, task or assignment, my grandmother, Lucille “Big Mama” would publicly tell us that we... Garland JournalFebruary 3, 2022
Editorial THE BLACK CARD: BIG MAMA SAID: “KEEP ON LIVING BECAUSE HEALTHY LIVING IS CRUCIAL! JOIN US THIS MLK WEEKEND As I opened the front door of the home my grandfather built with his own hands Big Mama shared one of her standard “Baby,... Garland JournalJanuary 13, 2022