May 23, 2013

Living in the Land of Make Believe: Searching for Allen Iverson

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*No really. I’m actually looking for Allen Iverson. I want to chop it up with him, have a conversation, you know, real talk. I actually think he would actually appreciate my article. I remember meeting him and having a few brief conversations during my time at Reebok, when the company endorsed him. His sneakers were [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: Kym Whitley, Holding Her OWN

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* KYM WHITLEY. Personality. Actress. Comedienne. Entrepreneur. Producer. Mother. Being a true veteran of show business, she’s been all over the circuit. However, what interested me the most was the Kym Whitley that we don’t know much about. And that is Whitley as a mother, a kid growing up and  now, as a debuting personality on [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: No Love Allowed

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Recently Jada Pinkett Smith posted an interesting entry on FaceBook that gave way to many comments and conversation. Not just on social media, but in a few circles of mine. She said, (referring to Rihanna’s song No Love Allowed) . . . “I have always loved these words in this song because I believe it [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: Finding Love before Finding Love

Boston businesswoman Monica Cost, an organizer of MassGap.org

*There are countless self help books that try to teach us how to love ourselves, accept ourselves for who we are and to find inner peace within ourselves. What they are really trying to help us do is to find true love. A love that begins within and one that I believe is the purest [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: Romantic Relationship Readiness

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*I believe that we, as humans, are meant to be in relation. We’re supposed to have relationships, romantic and platonic and they are supposed to be healthy. But the truth is, no one ever teaches us how to do that. There are no relationship courses in school that show us how to figure out our value system [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: 1Q & 2A

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Since writing my book The Things I Used to do to Sneeze!: How to live an authentic life with awesome sensations, I’ve had the distinct honor of speaking with hundreds of people about what it means to them to live in their defined Land of Authenticity and Truth (LOAT) and come out of the their [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: Out of the Woods. . .

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Most of us have heard of Tom Joyner, J. Anthony Brown and Sybil from the Tom Joyner Morning Show; however, less is known about Ms. Nikki Woods, the Senior Producer of the show and wearer of many hats in the Tom Joyner Empire. I had the pleasure of reconnecting with Ms. Woods last week and [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: So, What do I Tell My Boys?

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8There’s a conversation on the table. It’s about race. Actually, maybe we’ve been a little too polite in recent times. Maybe it’s time, we really say what is on our minds. Maybe we just tell the truth. (Are you a fan of EURweb? Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter.) My oldest son [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: If. . .then. . .

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*Most of us remember “if, then” statements from high school math. For example, if x+1=5, then 5-1=x. However, many of us continue to use this statement to apply to what we would like to see happen in our lives. If I had more money, I would go on vacation. If I had more time, I would [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: The Year of Completion

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So, I hope you rang in 2012 in a way that was well with your soul. Whether you partied, slept, kissed, hugged, toasted, cried or jumped for joy, you made it! Well, here we are at the top of Twenty Twelve. Per my research on a few websites, I discovered that “12″ is the number [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: Happy Having this Holiday Season

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*Around age twelve, when we used to drive by a certain business on the way to my Aunt Mal’s house, I used to look at the people coming and going and I began to envision a later me. I envisioned being dressed in pinstriped suits, getting in and out of cars (sometimes I was driving, [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: Challenging ‘Just Because’

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Something’s in the air in 2011. I’m not sure if the recession kicked up the “I’m unsatisfied and what are you doing about it” dust or if it is just the season we’re in. All of sudden, people are a little less comfortable than they were before. It appears to be happening in every aspect [...]