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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What the Hair
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Comedian Chris Rock outs black women regarding their hair secrets in his documentary, Good Hair, now in theaters. And Nia Long, actress and one of the women he features, sits down with six other well known women in the November issue of Essence to discuss the topic further. They’re not the only ones entertaining the [...]
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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 [...] -
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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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.
Had she not [...]
