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Continue reading →: Papal Cheat Sheet
I was raised and baptized into Catholicism, but have not been a practicing Catholic in over 20 years,for many reasons. However, I can not help but raise an eyebrow when Catholicism makes the news which, in the last decade, has been too often. With a Papal resignation, the world is…
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Continue reading →: Sequestration 101
A breakdown of four widely-held myths regarding the sequester. Bottom line: Congress didn’t do its job and this could still be avoided. Did you contact your representatives?
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Continue reading →: Is Your High School Athlete Covered?
Rocky Clark’s Law is a hard-fought win that any parent, grand parent, coach, youth sports league should know about and I am hopeful they will. When we eagerly sign our child up to participate in soccer, Pop Warner football, gymnastics, are we reading the fine print? We never want to…
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Continue reading →: Real Talk: Access and Equity in Health Care
Most who know me (professionally or personally) know that I have issues about which I am passionate. You could scan the categories of this blog and figure them out. 😉 One such issue is health care which has been a recurring theme in my career. I am a proponent of universal…
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Continue reading →: And the Winners Are…
My daughter bailed on me for our annual tradition, so I was left to my own sense of style. I have to say that the over-forty women showed how it’s done on the red carpet. Charlize Theron, Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Octavia Spencer, Salma Hyek and Jennifer Anniston looked FABULOUS and…
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Continue reading →: The Impatient Yogi
Stretching…then the “Dog, Cow and Cat Poses” per my son… (Apologies. Technical difficulties prevented the video from loading.)
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Continue reading →: Our Oscar Picks
For fashion, of course… Soooo, last year we slacked (I know you were heartbroken…), but this year my daughter and I are all over it!!! Who will have the top Red Carpet fashions?!? I want to see the star of Beasts of the Southern Wild, Quvenzhane Wallis. She was so…
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Continue reading →: A Fallen Hero?
As his bail hearing continues in South Africa, <a href=”https://muleoftheworld.org/2012/08/07/blade-runner/”> Oscar Pistorius’s</a> chances are bleak, but not compared to those of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, whose life was cut short. Early on Valentine’s Day, Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend in his home, reportedly mistaking her for an intruder. When I…
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Continue reading →: Welcome Back Robin
Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts looks fabulous on her first day back to work. “I have never been so excited to hear that 4 am alarm!” A welcome that included a personal video message from the President and First Lady, Roberts looks refreshed and happy. Many speculated that she would…
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Continue reading →: The Customer Is Never Right
Or helpful, apparently. On Monday, I purchased six cupcakes from Harris Teeter (yes I am putting it out there) for my daughter’s birthday. The icing was DISGUSTING; she threw it away. I felt so bad. Normally I would bake myself but we celebrated yesterday- and she had Mom’s homemade carrot…
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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.”
