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Continue reading →: No Martial Law, Please
President Aquino said that he may declare martial law because of the heavy looting. Please no. People are just hungry, afraid and overwhelmed. Please pray or send positive thoughts and money to help the people of the Philippines.
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Continue reading →: Won’t Read THAT In the News
Today my daughter and I attended DC CAP’s annual scholarship seminar and luncheon to learn more about the financial aid process and tuition assistance opportunities for DC students. The highlight of the program was the announcement of winners of DC CAPs contest, Why I Want to Go to College. High school seniors could…
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Continue reading →: Real Talk: Black Bruins
[youtube.com/watch?v=BEO3H5BOlFk&feature=youtube_gdata_player] Just in time for college app season!!! A close friend and educator shared this HuffPo article about the lack of diversity at UCLA and this student’s mission to talk about it. UCLA is not alone. I don’t have the stats on hand but Calif. may be struggling more due…
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Continue reading →: The Eternal Feminist
At times, she dramatically rears her head. Sitting in traffic this morning, this sign jumped out at me. YES!!! And I need a landscaper…
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Continue reading →: Violence is Violence
I heard this and was humbled. In 1996, Ann Arbor, MI, an 18 year-old African American girl threw her body over an alleged white supremacist after a crowd of protestors began to beat him. I can honestly say that I would not have done the same. These are the untold…
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Continue reading →: Writer’s Flood
It has been two weeks since my last post and I am out of sorts. I’ve had another birthday, a bout of the flu and the world has continued at a hurdling pace. There has been so much, too much, to write about that I find myself at that familiar…
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Continue reading →: Best Bathroom Handle EVER
I would love to shake the hand of whoever invented this contraption (and I know it would be clean!).
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Continue reading →: Gifted Hands, Shameful Words
Obamacare is the worst thing to happen since slavery…it makes all of us subservient. – Ben Carson This man has always been a hero to me; however as a child I didn’t know to looked into his ideologies. Many of his recent remarks are shameful.
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Continue reading →: Keep On Truckin
I dont know the last time DC has seen so much action: Navy Yard shooting, government shutdown, bizarre shooting on Capitol grounds and now, the truckers. Today in the DC Metropolitan area, truckers will “ride for the Constitution.” On top of the heavy rainfall, tractor trailers will clog three lanes…
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Continue reading →: Let’s Give ‘Em A Great Tip
I was previously involved in advocating for paid sick leave on the federal level and was thrilled when DC passed sick leave leg (only the second city to do so). What I did not know until recently is that some workers were excluded from this critical benefit. Tipped wait staff,…
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I’m Ayoka
Welcome to Mule Of The World. Musings and rants from this Black woman. Zora Neale Hurston called the Black woman “the mule of the world.”
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