Archive for the ‘attitude’ Category
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Gratitude Attitude
Monday, November 30th, 2009
If you’re on Tyler Perry’s mailing list you know about the childhood memories he shared. Horrific accounts of the kind of verbal and sexual abuse that could have made him bitter, but made him thankful, instead, for all he has overcome, as well as the new life it has led him to. Evidence you can see in his life and his work. He’s [...]
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Mistakes Happen
Monday, July 20th, 2009
Mistakes are typically associated with failure. But they can also birth possibilities. Sometimes they are blessings in disguise. Just ask Melissa Rycroft. She’s the woman Jason Mesnick became engaged to on reality show The Bachelor, only to be embarrassed by him a few days later when he changed his mind in favor of runner up [...]
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Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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 [...]
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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. He [...]
