So… this is my attempt to justify paying the annual fee for this website. This has been a crazy year. It seems like I say that every year. We are days away from 2022 and I don’t know if I should be breathing a sigh of relief that it is almost over or I should just hide under the bed and wait for “the purge”. In January 2021, My husband […]
Around this time (every year), I contemplate going back to school. I love learning. If I had discretionary income (along the lines of lottery winnings), I would be a professional student. With that said, social media has made learning a lot easier. I was able to make the best Lemon Blueberry Scones (thanks to http://www.momontimeout.com) in celebration of the Royal Wedding, and “You Tube University” has reduced the repair costs […]
I want to begin this letter by congratulating you on making it this far. To your parents, who are most likely members of my Generation X tribe, I say well done. I hope that your offspring picked degrees that will get them closer to their desire for independence (and you closer to that man/woman cave that you have always wanted). Members of the class of 2018, as you prepare to […]
The hubby made this week’s Mixtape after I did our taxes. The bad news… we owe. The good news… we did not owe as much as we did last year. Is this justification for Paul Ryan’s celebration tweet? The secretary he spotlights can now pay for her Costco membership, but can she afford to actually shop there? I love Costco, but I know that I cannot leave there without spending at […]
A few quotes from Dr. King to consider while listening to this week’s Mixtape… A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to […]
Click here to go directly to the Mixtape… To paraphrase a wise man, you can have one million “atta-boys” but one “oh-shit” can make all the “atta-boys” a distant memory… I have been thinking a lot about the action of forgiveness. Wikipedia provides an exceptional definition: Forgiveness is the intentional and voluntary process by which a victim undergoes a change in feelings and attitude regarding an offense, releases negative emotions […]
This week’s Mixtape continues with the final Women’s History Month podcast. Ironically, three men were on my mind this week… Stephon Clark: Nikolas Cruz killed seventeen people with an AR-15 and is still alive. Dylann Roof killed nine people in a church and is still alive. Stephon Clark’s alleged crime was breaking and entering, which is a misdemeanor. Stephon Clark had a cellphone in his hand. He was presumed armed […]
I wake up with the knowledge that I will go through my day wearing one (or many) of my titles. Woman, wife, daughter, sister, friend, employee, manager, servant, Third Wave-feminist and writer. It can be tiring. In fact, I have yet to meet a woman whom did not use the word tired in a sentence when describing a moment in time. I was born a Woman; the other titles […]
I am frustrated women (or any minority group) receive only 28 through 31 days of observance and acknowledgment. However, until minority accomplishments become standard in the history curriculum, small crumbs will do. Initially, when I asked Matcha021 (aka Hubby) to create this mixtape, I asked for I AM WOMAN by Helen Reddy to be included. I assumed he would understand what kind of musical vibe I wanted for this mixtape by […]
The Search for Generation X 