Am I too fat?   Am I too thin?   Do I look pretty?   How is my hair?    We are always questionable as to our looks, the way we look to others and ourselves.   We want to look the way how beauty is defined to us on television, at the movies and especially in magazines!   Unfortunately, while their definition of beauty might be good for those who enjoy it, or those who actually look that way, it doesn’t do any good for those of us who cannot li...

An interesting article I found while all the election hubbub was going on!  An article written by Sarah Jio of Glamour Magazine !  She has some good tips, that anyone could use!  Her article is entitled "How to avoid post-election depression if your cadidate doesn't win".     http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/how-to-avoid-post-election-depression-when-your-candidate-doesn-t-win-301749/   Her last paragraph reads: Choose to be at pe...

I found a very interesting article written by Sandy Banks, a Journalist for the  Los Angeles Times .   It is about the choice of President-elect Barack Obama, the views of people both blacks and whites from her native city of Cleveland.   It was interesting to me because the views of the people she talked to were pretty much what a lot of Americans has been thinking and how they felt.     There were several things in the article that struck...

One moment I'm in, logged into JU, then I try to comment, I'm out? I go to the Forums, I'm logged in, I search for the article I'm interested in commenting on, I get there and it is fine. I go back to the JU main page, I'm fine.  I click on an article to read and comment, I'm logged out? My blog page is OK too.  But anywhere else, not so? 

  "It will be a stirring sight to watch President Obama, his wife Michelle and their beautiful girls step through the doors of the White House," George Bush said [article linked above] Good on you President Bush, like John McCain, you are both very gracious in calling for the unity of our country!    

I keep hearing people referring to the outcome of this election as the biggest effect because of race.  It is not just because of the Black votes, although that helped, but let us not forget that the Black race is no longer the top minority in this country, in terms of numbers, even today.  It is also not because of the so called "White consience", though many like to believe this. Let us also not forget that the real reason the Republicans didn't have a sweep is because of what ...

We can all give a collective sigh of relief   Whew....that shit was close!   I can go out and buy a handgun...finally!   We won't get over Palin anytime too soon...more of her mug all over - YEAH!   We can all keep our jobs!   Black people can continue to retreat to the back of the bus!.....yeah...I said it...read it whatever way you want!   That Husseing Obama guy can go back where he came from!   Was that Africa or th...

The world as we know it will end! Run for your lives, Black people will be in charge!   OMG......we won't get rid of them!   OMGGGGG.....the country goes down the toilet!   The Muslims will come in and take over!   We all gonna lose our jobs!   People gonna have to stand on the street corners and give to the poor, freely and willingly!   Move over buddy.....your rights will all be gone!   Our country will be left o...

THINK WRITE ERASE THINK WRITE ERASE RINSE AND REPEAT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN....   THESE ARE MY THOUGHTS ARE KEPT TO MYSELF LATELY UNIMPRESSED, UNMOTIVATED DISILLUSIONED  

A FLAME BURNS IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER     YOUR SMILE FOREVER SEALED IN OUR MEMORIES WE MISS HEARING YOUR VOICE, YOUR LAUGH AS YOU TEASE, MISCHIEVEOUSLY THE CONCOCTIONS YOU WOULD CREATE WITH A FRUIT OR VEGETABLE YOU WERE OUR OWN CHEF EXTRAORDINAIRE YOU DOUTED ON US, YOUR OFFSPRINGS YOU WERE ALWAYS FAIR, AND FILLED WITH LOTS OF LOVE THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN YOUR 69TH YEAR ON THIS EARTH FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS, OUR LIVES ARE BLESSED BECAUSE OF YOU ...

I'm laughing at myself now, but I was fuming a bit an hour ago! I still love the library, but they can be a lot of pain when it comes to charging fees!   Remember those dvds and books I mentioned in my other article....? Yeah, I received a phone call, right after I wrote the other one (though my views still remains!) my daughter had a missing disk in one of her returns.  I usually check the cases, but being in a hurry, I forgot to do that this time!   I still had time ...

After picking up my son from school, I told him I was going to stop at the library because his sister has books that are due today, and we both have DVDs to return as well.  We ran inside of the library after finding parking, which took a few minutes longer than usual, apparently because of voter registration, and it being the last day in our state for voting registration, so many people were trying to get registered before 10pm tonight. Anyway, my son said, "Who borrows books anymore...

You know those stories, you've had them read to you as a child, seen the movies, read the novels when you grew up...."and they live happily ever after".  Is that an illusion, a lie, are we trying to make an illustion reality?  Shouldn't we really not give that illusion to our little impressionable ones? Hmmm....I do like the , love, love, LOVE the ideal of "happily ever after", and why not?  Why shouldn't we?  I love romance, love the feeling that being in love mak...

Exactly how honest are you on your blogs?  That is not a rhetorical question and that is not because someone lied to me or I caught someone in a lie.  This is a truly honest question!  People do make things up, don't they?  Sometimes I wonder do they really feel this way? How do I know that is the truth?  Why should they lie?  I guess I have no choice but to take them at face value, we all do right?   But I'm getting away from my point in this article, I ...