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What?!? Don’t fret, I’m clutching my pearls too as I type this. I mean what can one really learn from a scripted television show, posing as a candid look into the lives of young hip hop artists as they gallivant around Los Angeles punching and humping each other into professional purgatory? A lot, dear Watson … Continue reading Three (Yes, Three) Things I Learned from Love and Hip Hop: Hollywood
Our job as parents is to teach our children how to survive. We teach them basic things from how to eat to how to use the bathroom, but it's also our job to prepare them for the more complex things in life (although judging from the condition of the ladies room at my job, some … Continue reading What I Learned from My Kid, Pt. I
It's 5 am, I'm sick as a dog and I'm up writing. Guess you would call this a true labor of love. But I digress, as always. (If you follow my posts, remember I never promised you perfection or any resemblance of normalcy.) So I got on my normal "lost in thought" part of the … Continue reading Three Things a Writer Will Always Do
So I decided to write a letter to some of the main characters I created because we've been through so much together. And it goes a little something like this ... Dear Main Characters: I know we've been through a Loy over the years, but I've been feeling the need to tell you how very … Continue reading An Apology Letter to My Main Characters
I don’t know very many people that get up in the morning, dress in their best, and skip to work because they are thrilled about what they do from 9 to 5. I know there are some people out there with really cool jobs like the guy who rides roller coasters all day to “test” … Continue reading I Quit My Job! You Should Too!
I had plans to write this epic blog Monday morning about an article I came across a few days before. But I didn’t. I didn’t write it because my mind couldn’t focus on anything but the fact that it was 5 a.m. and I still hadn’t finished my first cup of coffee. With my … Continue reading Pinocchio: “I’m a real writer I swear!”
I was on a roll for a minute there. I’d come home after work, sit at my computer, and pump out an entire short story in one night. Not sure what happened, but if the legend is true …I’ve been stricken with writer’s block!Dun, Dun, Duunnnn!!!Doctors and scientists have been studying this phenomenon for centuries … Continue reading How to Beat Writer’s Block!
So it’s raining like an S.O.B. right now and I really don’t mind.“What!” Sometimes I surprise myself with the stuff I come up with. This time last year I would have had a million and one comments about how sugar melts in the rain I don’t mind it so much because it’s good for my … Continue reading Attack of the Life Altering Tomatoes!
I’m an average American. I get up every morning, shower, dress, make coffee, and head out the door (sometimes ten minutes late) to start my day. I sit in traffic, drop the kids off, and make it to work in time to check emails, run reports, and attend meetings. You know, normal stuff.While the term … Continue reading What is Normal?
When Black History Month came around this year I decided it would be best for the children to learn about what it means. They're four and six, however, so I asked the hubs where he thought I should begin. Quite a bit more reality based than I am, he said as a family we shouldn't … Continue reading I Am My Daughter’s Keeper! Women’s History Month from the Mouth of a Babe
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