We have 75 more days left in the year of 2016 and it has been a wild, wild ride thus far. It has felt at times like we were adrift in the great ocean in just a little kayak in which to survive. And we still have […]
Over a week and a half ago, Kanye West literally dropped the mic on stage to attend to a family emergency. The crisis being that Kim Kardashian, his wife, had been gagged, bound and held at gunpoint in her Paris hotel. As the reporting goes, over a million […]
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. Mitch Hedberg A very small group of people will completely get and understand my following statement. I hate water. Well, let me rephrase. I hate drinking water. For that matter, I also hate ice cubes. […]
While growing up, I was a little girl looking for a mentor within the school system. I had been labeled gifted and lived in a poverty-stricken neighborhood. Those that could mentor, looked for those to mentor. We would build our community resources through informal relationships and gumption. I […]
This past weekend, I got to play dress up. I’m one of those ladies that almost always wears a dress and heels to work. I wear dresses on the weekend as well. I love gettimg dressed up. Yet, I don’t tend to wear makeup. I’ve got pretty good, […]
As a woman who grew into multiple executive positions over the past decade I learned quickly that introductions tell you much about what you are about to encounter next. Early in my career I somehow became a lightning rod for certain political fractions, that I had no clue […]
A few decades ago there was a television show called Different Strokes that featured Gary Coleman as the cute kid in an inter-racial adoption family. The show seems to have been doomed in that many of its stars had really hard lives after the show ended and several […]
I woke up this morning unexpectedly thinking about a dinner I had a few years back. It was a good dinner but it had all been a set up. Let me explain. There was this young woman who had worked for me for little less than one year. […]
Clowns are creepy. We all get that. Some five year olds out there may not get weirded out by clowns. But they are the minority. Not that I have any hard data on this. It is just my gut feeling. I personally met a clown once. He nearly […]
This past weekend, the television show Saturday Night Live premiered it’s 31st season with a non-stop parody of the Trump-Clinton debate. At one point weekend update skit newscasters referred to Trump and Clinton as a choice between Tang or Prunes. I laughed not because it was particularly witty […]