Archive for March, 2009
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Monday, March 30th, 2009
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.
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don’t miss your moment
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
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.
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You’d Better Think
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
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 [...]
