Bereaved and Blessed

Ideas Underwater

July 23, 2012

Towards the end of this past school year I chaperoned a field trip with my son Sean’s second grade class to the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) here in Chicago. I was responsible for exploring MSI with a group of five students, including Sean. I have always loved going to MSI and especially enjoy […]

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Gatekpeeing (7th Edition)

July 22, 2012

How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the seventh edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. After the events of this past weekend, I am having trouble getting back into my blogging groove, so it seemed […]

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Let All Around Us Be Peace

July 21, 2012

This weekend has been wonderful, busy and at times bittersweet for my family and me. We got to spend quality time and had a lot of fun with loved ones, some of whom we hadn’t seen in a while, at a family reunion. In light of the family reunion, we didn’t spend much time in […]

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An Ode to BlogHer`12

July 20, 2012

August 2nd – 4th in NYC, Bloggers free to be you and me. Sessions, parties and keynotes, Networking and sharing antidotes, Exhausts and fills us with glee!

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Thursday’s Voice: Week Three

July 19, 2012

Thank you for your continued support of and enthusiasm for my fellow writers and me at The Today Voice since we launched our new writing project this month. I especially appreciate those of you have taken time to comment on my posts over there and share your thoughts on the prompts each week here and/or there. The prompt […]

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Dove VisibleCare: How Does it Feel to be Beautiful?

July 18, 2012

When I was growing up my maternal grandmother, mother, sister and I had a running discourse that went like this, one of us would ask another one, “How does it feel to be beautiful?” The person on the receiving end of the question would answer, “You oughtta know!” I always loved the message that it […]