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*When I graduated from college the first time followed my dreams and became a newspaper and television news reporter. I traveled across the country covering stories, one of the most memorable was when I met Nelson Mandela during his visit to the United States after his release from a South African prison. When I graduated [...]
*It happened when I was on my way through security at Honolulu International Airport. I was on a “eat more fruit and drink more water” regimen in an effort to lose weight (story of my life.) And I forgot about the steak knife in my purse I used to cut fruit. It was before 911 [...]
*Why does it seem the most prejudiced people in our society are in positions of authority where they can do the most damage? There was the (now imprisoned) Pennsylvania juvenile court judge who sentenced first time offenders to jail time in exchange for kickbacks, the Massachusetts lab technician who tainted evidence bound for criminal court [...]
*While I agree the story about Manti Te’o and his internet romance with an imaginary woman has been overrated, it serves as a cautionary tale that shows what can happen when you replace physical interaction with texts, tweets and emails. Of course, technology has its place, but when it comes to judging a person’s honesty, [...]
*Miraculously, and by the grace of God if you’re reading this, we’ve made it to yet another year. Despite the fact that to many, 2012 brought illness, death, heart break, heart ache, loneliness, insecurities, disappointments of unfilled dreams and/or expectations; and the realization of the little known fact that some individuals really do come into [...]
*I’m glad Zoey, the 3-month old daughter of Kasandra Perkins and Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher will get the financial support she needs from the NFL. That’s one less thing her caretakers have to worry about. But judging from the way her parents died there’s no telling what she already has been exposed to [...]
*Thirty-five years ago when I grew up in east Tennessee the only people I saw with tattoos were members of a motorcycle gang. I had to go to school on the other side of town to see white people, because only black people went to my church and lived in my neighborhood. When my teacher, [...]
*If I could package common sense and convince people that it was going out of business maybe I could get them to value it, and possibly stand in line to pay for it. People don’t value what’s free. Common sense is no different. Take, for example, the nationwide panic that set in when the Hostess [...]
*Once when I was in high school a friend and I cut class together. We were smart enough to create a fake doctor’s note for the teacher, but we walked around the neighborhood where everybody knew us, knew we should have been in school and – unfortunately for me – knew my mother’s phone number. [...]
*If you thought the Saturday Night Live parody of the Vice Presidential debate was humorous, then you’ll love the homemade skits posted on YouTube depicting that Cleveland bus driver who put the rope-a-dope on that loud mouth female passenger (“woman” might be too feminine a word to describe her) on his bus who had the [...]
*Two years after I renewed my passport I still hadn’t used it to travel abroad. So when I saw the Living Social special that allowed me to spend a week in one of ten Mexico destinations for less than $300 I purchased it without hesitation. The travel voucher was good for two adults and two [...]
*Last week a chemist in Massachusetts was charged with obstruction of justice after she admitted to rigging drug samples often used to determine the guilt or innocence of defendants in criminal court cases. Annie Dookhan tested more than 60,000 drug samples over nine years at a Boston state lab. While co-workers performed an average of [...]
*While people in Chicago are worried about boycotting teachers, a school district in Arkansas has banned students from bringing peanut butter products to school. That means no sandwiches, no candy bars, no cookies no nothing if it contains that versatile go-to snack food. Take nuts out of the equation and that rule is hard enough [...]
*First it was “Toddlers and Tiaras” a reality TV show about pint-size pageant contestants. And just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, somebody at the TLC network decided to give the most outrageous tiara tot and her family their own show. It’s like when TV news crews show up in the neighborhood and [...]
*Actor Clint Eastwood took the Invisible Man reference to another level last week at the Republican National Convention. Although his presence confirmed his support for the RNC his speech did more to confuse rather than to convince me of that party’s political stance. And I thought his portrayal of a cantankerous old timer in the [...]
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