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 [...]

 Stripping Obama Of His “Blackness” by Rambling Raven
I, like millions of others, basked in the glory of the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President-Elect of the United States of America. It’s been a long time coming. I cried tears of joy on November 4, 2008. I cried for my parents who thought they [...]

Is Being a Single Parent an Option For Me??
Last week at work (these conversations always seem to take place among co-workers), there were several of us huddled around, talking on our break, and the conversation veered towards relationships and children. I automatically cringed. I knew what road this conversation was going to ease on down [...]

The calendar says that we officially have a few more weeks before old man winter is upon us. Yet, somehow, he always seems to arrive early here in the mid-west. The sun goes into hibernation, leaving behind a sky full of brooding dark clouds. The air turns thin, crisp and cold. Without much warning we [...]

What’s Really Important? By Rambling Raven
   I am by nature a worrier. I can’t help it. Needless to say, the state of the country and the economy has me walking around with a sour look on my face. How can you not help but feel a little anxiety? Everywhere you look the decline of the [...]

Reason, Season and Lifetime 

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People always come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.
 
When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do. 
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When someone is in your life for a REASON,
 
it is usually to meet a need you have expressed outwardly or inwardly.
 
They have come to assist you through [...]

I spent my twenties working at a company where I was the youngest employee by 15 years and the first EVER female in a technical position (computer programmer, then later, Data Processing Manager.) I was constantly being told I was still “a pup” and “wet behind the ears” and all manner of other condescending crap. [...]

There is a school of thought which says in order for us to achieve, we must first believe we are capable. Studies show our brains don’t know the difference between a memory of an event and a visualization of an event that has not happened. Interesting implications, wouldn’t you say?
As avid readers, I’d say that [...]

Books have been such a big part of my life, all my life. I have grown as a person, lived vicariously through others, learned vocations, and escaped the familiarity of my life through books. When my house burned two years ago, a big part of the restoration bill was cleaning and restoring my library of [...]

Reading is…comfort. More than anything else, when I want to get away from the world and it’s stresses, nothing calls my name louder than a good book and my couch. Curled under a blanket on a cold winter day, or sprawled out in front of a fan on a hot summer day - matters not [...]