Today’s post is more for me than for you. I’ve been searching and searching for this clip of Craig’s show and finally found it. I remember seeing this monologue the night it aired (sometime the week of Feb. 19, 2007) and it made a dent in me, for sure. Please watch it. I promise you’ll laugh at least once or twice (and if you’re a friend...

I have no idea who actually took this picture, much less who spray painted the words. I’m just glad they did and it made it’s way to me.

I’ve always been told I’m hardheaded. So much that it’s become somewhat a badge of honor for me. In my younger days, there were people on the planet (who shall remain nameless – you know who you are) who were convinced my hard head would be the death of me, and that at the very least, I would have a hard and miserable life because of it....

Easier said than done these days, it seems. Everywhere you turn, people are wiggin’ out. And I probably would, too, if I was facing foreclosure or had lost a my retirement funds in the stock market the last few weeks. Thankfully, neither are true for me. I’ve got my own barrel of monkeys I’m dealing with, though, and while they have diddly to do...

Today is Blog Action Day, and the topic is poverty. This is a topic I thought I knew something about, having been, at one point, a single mother, pregnant with another child, bankrupt and barely employed. In the years since, I’ve “qualified” as living at or below the poverty line a few times. But since I signed up to participate in Blog Action...

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote. The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. And by the end of the night, they were...