To go directly to the mixtape click here The hamsters on the wheel in my mind kept me awake last night; this morning I am tired as hell. Sleep deprivation is the ultimate punishment to the body and mind. Don’t do it. Before I began listening I asked him what the “theme” was (or, if he had one). He said “olive branch” I love the song choices he made and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today is the last day of the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee, an event that memorializes the marches from Selma to Montgomery Alabama in 1965. Historians state that the events of Bloody Sunday resulted in immediate action by President Lyndon Johnson to submit his voting rights bill, which signed into law five months later. Generation X was born into the civil rights movement. Our generation benefited from Roe v. Wade (1973), […]
I knew that I wanted to incorporate music somewhere on the site. Music is a large part of my life, in fact, once I fancied myself to be a great singer. Of course, after hearing myself, and looking at the pained faces of people who heard me I discovered I was delusional. While my girlfriends dated the athletes, I was into the band geeks and “wanna-be” D.J’s. The advantage to […]
We are the generation that gave Grunge and Hip-Hop a home. The Gen-X years housed some of the greatest musicians and music of our time. The Who’s My Generation was released in 1965. Although created by baby-boomers, to me it is an introduction for what is to come musically for the newly formed (birthed) Generation X. In fact, late Baby Boomers such as Prince, Michael Jackson and Billy Idol (who […]
The Search for Generation X 