Death came in threes this week.  It began with the passing away of Ed McMahan, the Tonight Show sidekick of former host Johnny Carson.  Days later he was followed by Farrah Fawcett, an actor best known for her role as a female detective on the hit series Charlies’s Angels.  (Loved her.)  And hours after that [...]

There’s a sign on the employee entrance of a local steakhouse restaurant that reads: “Perfect practice makes perfect.”  Not practice makes perfect.  Perfect practice makes perfect.  I found it an interesting post because it reminded me of something athletes already know.  
Athtletes don’t endure hours of rigorous training simply to hit the mark.  Their goal is to master it.  They know that the more [...]

Six months ago my daughter’s hair hung just below her shoulders.  But massive breakage left her with not much to show for it.  To protect what was left and camouflage the damage, I put her in braids.  She liked them until someone teased her for wearing extensions, and passed the pressure on to me to remove them. 
Had she not [...]

In 1991 I recorded my own cassette album (yes, cassette) featuring seven songs I wrote under the name Karen Metcalf.  The title was Don’t Let it Show.  A disc jockey at Louisville radio station WLOU, then secular, was gracious enough to play one of my songs (I’m the One) on the air for me. 
He also [...]

There’s a reason why the lyrics to the “queen of soul’s” (Aretha Franklin) song Think has been pulled up 52,516 times.  Apparently, we still need to hear them.  The Chris Brown/Rihanna beat down story couldn’t make the point more clear.  By now I’m sure you’ve heard some version of the alleged fight between the hip hop [...]