A Great Big Diva!

2014

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The Universe is calling out to us all. Be the best that you can be, practice patience and tolerance, let love rule - always, speak the truth, keep smiling, take good action, take and maintain control of our lives, be good to others but don't be no fool, FORGIVE, let go of negativity, lighten up, Interact, step out of your comfort zone, don't expect the worst from your fellow Human, LAUGH, dance, cry, grieve, experience silence, experience the Arts, consider History, respect Science, dare to …

The Adventures of Permanent Lifestyle Change Girl – It’s On!

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I am back at it. I have had so many false starts that I refrained from posting about my latest effort to lose weight. But it's been several weeks now and after losing 16 pounds I am formally declaring: IT'S ON! I am obese. I am a fat ass bitch and I'm sick of it. Folks get upset when I call myself fat. They even argue wih me: "You're not fat!" to which I respond: Remind me to never believe another word that comes out of your mouth again! I weigh over 300 pounds! I'm fat! face it! …

Daddy was a Soldier.

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Daddy was a soldier in World War II and the Korean War and he was proud of that fact. Back when I thought I knew everything - I used to say "War World II was Daddy's finest hour." He was in Europe and a G.I. Life was an adventure. Black soldiers were considered heroes, a thing of wonder like an exotic bird - there was no segregation and no Jim Crow in European cities for a soldier. A Black man from the South could walk freely and speak with a man and look him in the eye. I believe war was …

Taking My Life On With Baby Steps.

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Sometimes you just have to think positive! You have to visualize your dreams. But you also have to take the next step which is ACTION. That is my biggest issue - no action - but I'm working on it - one step at a time. I find that when I look at a project, goal or dream as an end, it overwhelms me into doing nothing, never starting, or worse: I start, get distracted and never finish. So I have decided to look at the same project, goals and dreams as a process, and lay them out in small but …

9/11

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Today is a day or remembrance of that terror, that heartache, that shock known as 9/11. I lost a friend when the towers fell that day: Carl Valvo, father, husband and buddy. We all lost so much including our innocence and our naivete. We all became citizens of the world and witnesses to the deep desperation and evil that exists in the hearts of men. Funny that today I am being interviewed by Voice of America. 9/11 probably won't be a topic discussed but I will tell a story of my own and the …