Years ago, my friends and I started a Gift Basket business where we sold flowers, gift baskets, and balloons. Of course, Valentine’s Day w...

Years ago there was a movie entitled The Butterfly Effect. The theory, by the same name, states that the tendency of a complex system is ...

There lies an immoral, wicked, sinful thing in all of us. Something vile that set up dwelling unbeknownst to many, making us oblivious to...

In a book entitled a Generous Orthodoxy, Brian D. McLaren describes himself as a missional + evangelical + post-protestant + liberal-cons...

I have always been a fan of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Years ago she interviewed a group of people she determined had earned the title, “Sur...

My first job was in a neighborhood beauty slash barber shop where the owner was an eccentric. He would mesmerize clients with his burning...

After twenty plus successful years as a hair salon owner, I began to be pulled in another direction. One Sunday my attention fell on thos...

Who doesn’t love a bowl of good homemade soup? It warms the body and soothes the soul like good food was designed to do. I remember my gr...

I was a late-night fan of the television show, Gun Smoke. Matt Dillion was just a cool dude in my mind. If there was a shoot-out going dow...

Please, Please, Please, begs James Brown in his 1958 release with the Flames. Little did some of us know that we would be crying the sent...

Opposites Attract or so we tell ourselves when we want to be with that special someone that has totally different goals in life, totally ...

I was watching the first episode of the fifth season of This Is Us as Randle explained to his sister Kate that he spent his entire life c...

I love Romantic Comedies. They are great coping tools. Many of them probably seem too predictable to some, but I love the idea that love ...

Lately I’ve been thinking about expiration dates and grace periods. One was created to provide us an optimal period to use certain produc...

You might call me a geek, but I love the Matrix movie trilogies. I can literally quote the dialogue along with the characters. When the f...

When I was young people often mistaken me to be older. I was a serious adolescent with a raspy voice, long legs, and big hips. I enjoyed ...

The Twelve Steps and the Anonymous community were a valuable resource on my road to healing. It was in the safety of those rooms that I l...

Everyone of us are members in a variety of groups that help us form multiple relationships. Each of these relationships has the tendency ...

Families have been under attack for centuries. What started out as the traditional nuclear family, with heterosexual parents and at least...

While making notes for a blog post, the individual letters of the word pain began to speak to me, “Please Acknowledge I’m Noteworthy.” Th...