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Continue reading →: Nomophobia
This is the fear of being without a mobile device. A California therapist has started a support group at the Morningside Recovery Center, to address this addiction. According to a recent study, 66 percent of folks suffer from it. Replacement therapy is part of the treatment so that patients keep…
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Continue reading →: A First For Ole Miss
On October 13, Courtney Pearson made history. The 21 year-old is the first African American woman to be crowned as homecoming queen at the University of Mississippi. Pearson who won by only 110 votes, acknowledges that she does not fit the aesthetic stereotype. This is a milestone especially given the ugly…
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Continue reading →: A Lady of Leisure
NOT! But today, I felt like one. I met my cousin this morning for an introduction to a potential client. Afterward, she persuaded me to accompany her for a manicure. (I will not tell you how long it’s been since I’ve had any type of spa treatment or related service.)…
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Continue reading →: Reasons It’s Okay If I Don’t Work At [company name] Anymore
The following are “guidelines” to let working mothers know when it’s time to re-evaluate. 1. Because I have two lives and I don’t have time to enjoy either one of them. 2. Because trying to be a man, is a waste of a woman. 😉 3. Because my kids will…
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Continue reading →: Malarky
Once I began watching the vice presidential debate, I remembered why I usually don’t…foreign policy. Admittedly, most of that goes over my head with the joint chiefs and names of cities and townships that I don’t know. I like the broad overview, not the granular… I felt a bit more…
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Continue reading →: I Don’t Know How She Does It
A colleague and girlfriend saw this movie in-theater and urged me to see it. However, I seldom get to the movies much less to see what I want; I just caught it on cable. I heart this movie. Talk about hitting the issues of working women and mothers… maternal guilt,…
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Continue reading →: Scary Beautiful
A collaboration between artist Leanie Van der Vyver and Dutch shoe designer René van den Berg. Van der Vyver is South African and a graduate from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
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Continue reading →: One Diva At a Time
October is domestic violence awareness month and a Baltimore salon owner is combining her ingenuity and personal story to help abused women regain their self-esteem. Diva for a Day, is the unique program by Cindy Tawiah, a domestic violence survivor. The program offers a day of pampering in her salon,…
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Continue reading →: Q & A
God, I wish I had more answers than questions! As a writer, I feel like I’m full of questions, all of the time. I write to clear some of it from my mind and for the off chance that I might spark discussion or offer a new point of view…
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Continue reading →: Big Bird
Cuts to PBS? Say it ain’t so! Most of the debate Tweets tonight were about Big Bird. This was also the biggest take away for me. How do you simply change your talking points this late in the game? I’m turning off the commentary now- I can’t take it. They…
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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.”
