Tomorrow would have been my grandmother’s birthday. I am not sure how old she would have been ; you never asked Lucille Rose how old she was. She was a beautiful, stubborn woman who stressed the importance of manners and always saying thank you. It is also one of my nephew’s birthdays, but their day …
Tag: dreams
Happy Birthday to …
Time is always speeding past us. Always moving forward and going on whether we like it or not. Anniversaries and birthdays come... And often we come up with elaborate ways to celebrate them. In my case, I love to plan and then life does it thing and the plans go to waste because there is …
Pausing for a Happy Dance
Today, I had every intention of finishing the poetry post after school was out. Then I read something at lunch that stop me in my tracks. An email informing me that I am now the new English Department Chair. For the past three years there has been a different chair. Each time I found out …
Laboring Away on Labor Day
Leaving my neighborhood this morning, I noticed something unusual for a Labor Day morning trash cans lining the curb. This just shouldn't be.. don't my neighbors know that the trash men don't come on holidays. But maybe this year, it is going to be different.. maybe they will come. Maybe America or at least Orlando's waste management company has …
The Way
It was good, genuine people, bad times, too few words too many emotions that broke the world we made loved thrived in It was good people
Thanks Chef Ramsey….
Intense, assertive and talented, Chef Gordon Ramsey is one of the world's most famous chefs. As a devoted fan, I have watched every episode of Kitchen Nightmare's (both U.S. and UK versions), the F-Word and Master Chef as soon as they are available on-line. He has inspired millions of people to go back into the …
Cheeseburger Cart
Once upon a time, I joked about getting a food cart and taking it downtown to feed skinny chicks. Girls who clearly needed to eat, who were an unhealthly kind of skinny. It wasn't a very good joke. It implied that I have a problem with slender women. I don't. There isn't a rivalry between skinny and …
One Name: Two Fates
Review of The Other West Moore By Wes Moore Available through Amazon Since the day that NPR aired a story on this book it has been on my reading list. It was one of the first books that I added to my current reading list on Goodreads. Then I purchased my kindle and material reading …
This Week’s Review…
This week's review has been postponed because my mind and heart were captured by A review will be posted as soon as I have been released...
Wool Over Our Eyes!!
The United States of America is in a crisis, not the financial one facing the economy; it is a crisis of conscious. A crisis that I believe has been created by the media and the politicians to distract us from their lack of leadership. I also believe that it occurs on both sides of the …