Haiti's Hope for the Future - Please support!

This event is important to me and to others, but most of all to those that need it. Please support! Haiti’s Hope for the Future 27% of the population of Haiti cannot afford basic essentials nor send their children to school. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with no government funded social service programs existing to address the needs of these people. Our mission is to raise $398,100.00 needed to build a school for the children of Haiti. With your support we can help achieve that goal. On December 2, 2009, Hope for the...

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Gaming Yo Peeps

You ever have a friend that you thought was down for you, down for your dreams, your aspirations, one who you thought you could share with and be honest with, who you thought wouldn't take your honesty and kindness for weakness? And then they 'game' you? I know it's not just me. Lately, it's been the refrain of my besties and the like. People who seemingly have your back and then you find out that anything but is the case. What is it about the innate nature of people that cause them to 'game' you? Though...

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The Buddy Curse

I think I might have 'buddy' stamped on my forehead. No, really, I'm serious. If you're on my FB page, then you may (or not) have seen my status about my lovely just-turned-96 year old grandmother explaining to me that the reason that I don't have a man yet is because I don't know how to fold clothes. Before that, I was chatting with an ex of mine (though I don't know if he really qualifies as an ex, but more on that later) about relationships and people and why I was still single (well, he wanted to know.) Let's expound. We were talking about...

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The 'Truth' about Chivalry

The following excerpt is from my girl D's blog, "Life in the D Lane", the entry entitled "Puddles". I had to share this story - it might be one of the sweetest things I've ever read. It also, of course, got me to thinking...as most things tend to do. "I took one look outside and saw that the sky was no longer crying, it was screaming, but that wasn’t the reason for my hesitation. I had never come home from school alone in the rain before. I hadn’t gone anywhere alone in the rain before. I always had Chris. He always carried me, put plastic...

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