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Continue reading →: The Repeat Test
Invest a few minutes to avoid time-wasting activities in your day. Step 1: List numbers representing your waking hour up to the hour that you will go to bed. I’m gonna try it…hopefully no patterns of timesucks arise. Let me know if you see a change!
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Continue reading →: Take a Seat For What You Believe
A Damascus High School student, a 15 year-old girl, sat quietly during the pledge of allegiance, to show her discontent with US policy in Puerto Rico. She is currently being defended by the Maryland ACLU, though I am unsure why she needs a defense. This tenth-grader is following a long…
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Continue reading →: Manx???
So Spanx, the company known for “holding everything in” for us girls, has launched a men’s line. Products include a t-shirt that smooths out a man’s stomach and chest area. There is also a Men’s Starter Kit that is comprised of a top and bottom item. Another item of interest…
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Continue reading →: Real Talk: Background Checks
Tomorrow is a House vote on background checks as part of the larger gun control legislation. THIS SHOULD BE A NO BRAINER!!! Please contact your representatives today to urge them to support mandatory backhround checks.
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Continue reading →: The Thumb Drive
Most of us still have one. Whether you call it a jump or thumb, this author’s message really hit me. All those ideas, random poems and chapter drafts that swirl in my head or live somewhere in my home, need to be breathed to life. Whether it’s a tap on…
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Continue reading →: If We Ruled the World
Things would be verydifferent… But as I wake from my reverie, I am warmed by the news that a woman will direct the secret service. WOAH!!!! And she needs no confirmation. Julia Pierson previously served as Sullivan’s chief of staff and has 30 years of experience. Perhaps she can address…
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Continue reading →: Guns: Senate Vote Today
I don’t get the point of legislation that would not include a ban on assault weapons. Meanwhile the Mayors Against Gun Violence launch a $12 million campaign hoping someone will notice. REALLY?!??? I mean, I understand “baby steps” and I hear Feinstein talking about getting it on record even if…
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Continue reading →: Crossing Into Good Health
Adrian Dantley, former NBA player and Hall of Famer, gives high fives to the kids as he helps them cross the street to school. That’s right, he’s a crossing guard in Silver Spring, MD. Nope. He doesn’t need the money…it’s the health benefits. DAMN.
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Continue reading →: Oh, I Get It…
I remember years ago Native Americans attempted to get the Washington Redskins to change its name…and it didn’t work. Well a federal trademark court just heard arguments this past week, let’s see what happens. In 1992, fans lost their mind about changing the name. I will say, as a native…
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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.”
