What a beautiful family!

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, sit for a family portrait in the Green Room of the White House, Sept. 1, 2009. (Official White House Photo)
Photo by Annie Leibovitz/Released by White House Photo Office
This official White House photograph is being made [...]

She’s Back…Whitney Houston that is.  Snagged a copy of I Look to You from her latest album and posted the link below:
I Look to You by Whitney Houston*
*Arggh the link no longer works…Sony copyright infringement…they don’t want the song posted on You Tube before the album is released in September.
Well…have you heard the song on [...]

Have you seen the Evian Roller Babies? Are they cute or what…made my day when I saw them promoted on The Today Show this morning.

I Trust You by James Fortune & FIYA Great video to start off a new week.

Who is Susan Boyle?  She’s the singer–who was mocked and shown skepticism–on Britain’s Got Talent. That is until she opened her mouth and wowwed and awed many in the audience and now many of us in the world.   Her appearances were very misleading and what many judged her by.  Especially since she’s not Hollyweird’s [...]

25 TIPS FOR A BETTER LIFE 
    1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk,  smile.   It is the ultimate anti-depressant.
     2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.  Buy a lock if you have to. 
    3. When you wake up in the morning complete the  following statement,  ‘My purpose is [...]

The Day that Black History Met American History
(My inaugural poem)
by K. Kimbrough*
 
On a cold January day
12:05 to be exact
There was a meeting
Where a seated old Abe looked down
And a tall standing Washington cast his shadow
Before a mall
and its historic waters
The meeting
Of the Fore Runner
And the After Thought
The fullness of the contents of [...]

A Few of My Favorite Things
My absolute all time favorite holiday movie is The Sound of Music. I don’t think it is a Christmas movie in the traditional sense but NBC runs it every holiday season. And I watch it every year. On of my favorite songs from that musical is “My Favorite Things.” I [...]

Happiness expert and author CJ Scarlet is starting a kindness revolution and she wants YOU to join her! Over the next year, CJ will personally perform 365 acts of kindness and recruit a legion of everyday people like YOU to perform similar acts in their own communities, such as babysitting for a busy mom so she can take a break, taking neighbors’ trash cans off the street and leaving them an anonymous note, personally thanking our teachers and police officers, and buying a bus ticket for a stranded homeless person to return to their family.

Obama Is Not Our Savior by Rambling Raven
I too cried a million tears on election night, how could I not. It was the first time I was emotionally invested in a candidate and an election. For nearly two years, I watched, wondered, hoped and even prayed that the man who I wanted to see as [...]