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Mar 2012

The Hunger Games – Black Rue, District 11 & Trayvon Martin

March 31, 2012 By 13 Comments
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*Spoiler Alert*

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Filed Under: African Americans, Celebrities, Movies, Race & Ethnicity, Racism Tagged With: casting, Civil Rights, cliff Kigar, District 11, Dr. King, Gale, Haymitch, Katniss, Peeta, , Rue, The Hunger Games, Thresh, Trayvon Martin,
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Mar 2012

The Power of Vulnerability And Courage

March 29, 2012 By 4 Comments

Watch this y’all…

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Filed Under: Leadership, Self Leadership Tagged With: Dr. Brene' Brown, TED talks, vulnerability
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Mar 2012

Prepping Easter

March 29, 2012 By 2 Comments
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My little Easter eggs..

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Filed Under: Family, My Faith Tagged With: Ash Wednesdays, chocolate, Easter, Easter baskets, Easter Sunday, Good Friday, Gourmet Easter Gift Baskets, Maundy Thursdy, , , The River
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Mar 2012

What I Wore Wednesday

March 28, 2012 By 3 Comments
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ONE OF THESE DAYS I’m going to get out my real camera, set it up on a tripod and take a proper What I Wore Wednesday picture of myself.  You’ll be proud of me though, I cleaned the mirror!  I simply couldn’t handle posting WIWW posts with big splotches and baby hand prints reflected in […]

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Filed Under: Girly-Girl, What I Wore Wednesday Tagged With: , Kohl's, Old Navy, , The Pleated Poppy, wiww
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Mar 2012

50/50 – Movie Review

March 25, 2012 By 3 Comments
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  I watched 50/50 the other night, and felt compelled to write a review because I enjoyed it so. very. much. I was hesitant to watch it at first because Seth Rogen uses the F-Bomb entirely too much in every single film he’s in and I grow tired of hearing Seth Rogan talking about sex […]

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Filed Under: Celebrities, Movies Tagged With: 50/50, Anjelica Houston, Anna Kendrick, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen
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Mar 2012

The Role of the Media in the Murder of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman

March 23, 2012 By 16 Comments
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While I believe the shooting of Trayvon Martin is a tragedy and is racked with issues of profiling and injustice, another injustice is the fact that the media is presenting this story as a simple black vs. white issue. This is an injustice to the audience. We are being misled to buy into a sort […]

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Filed Under: African Americans, Race & Ethnicity, Racism Tagged With: black men, ethnic minorities, George Zimmerman, media, news outlets, Nightline, Trayvon Martin
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Mar 2012

Update on my book. A lot of #amWriting #amEditing progress. =)

March 22, 2012 By 15 Comments
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I’m excited to update you on my little book project because it’s crowning. I’m experiencing the circle of fire. I’m giving birth to the book.  Right now. These contractions are killer but there’s progress. I met my goal last year to have a rough draft finished by December 31, 2011! That was no small feat.  Intentionally, […]

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Filed Under: Memoir, Writing Tagged With: amediting, amwriting, Gotham Writer's Workshop, momentum, , On Writing Well, Plot and Structure, plotting, query letters, reading, The Writer's Manifesto, , Your Beautiful Book Plan
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Mar 2012

What I Wore Wednesday – blazin’

March 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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I’m so excited to tell you that this post was actually on a Wednesday…as opposed to last week’s WIWW post. (just not today). Progress, friends!

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Filed Under: Girly-Girl, What I Wore Wednesday Tagged With: what i wore wednesday, wiww
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