People talk about living a happy life, a successful life, a meaningful life. But an authentic life? What is that? Just as a successful life can be defined in many ways, so too can an authentic life. For example, some people will define a successful life as being financially affluent. For others, it will be […]
“Made it through another anniversary that I normally don’t acknowledge publically but someone needs to know that no matter what – with God and the support of others, you can have the victory. So I needed this today. Sharing it with you and anyone else who has been victimized, traumatized or abused in their past. […]
I found this on one of the many Web sites I haunt: The average woman would give up relations for 15 months for a closet full of brand new clothes. Blink, then read it again. I’ll even bold and all-caps it to make it a little bit easier. THE AVERAGE WOMAN WOULD GIVE UP RELATIONS […]
Last Sunday, my kids and I prepared our favorite meals and snacks and got ready to party. If you didn’t know any better, you might have thought were having a Super Bowl Party one week early. It wasn’t the Super Bowl we were celebrating, but my son’s participation in the Education Bowl. But wouldn’t it […]
The highly anticipated movie “Red Tails” hits theatres this Friday, Jan. 20th. “Red Tails” stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard and Ne-Yo, among others, and tells the real-life account of the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black World War II fighter pilot squad. The squadron, which was sent to North Africa and Italy to escort white bomber […]
We all live by faith. The question is: In what? In most conversations about faith, we generally mean that “everything will work out for the good.” In a religious setting, it usually means to have faith in God. As we give our attention to the various aspects of our lives – our health, finances, relationships, […]
So far, so good in 2012. But as we know, life is not always a smoothly paved road. Sometimes it’s pretty damn rough, in disrepair – rocky from heartbreak, marked by potholes, overflowing with disappointment and often impassable from loss, grief and misunderstanding, despite our pledged best intentions at the beginning of a new year. […]
It’s that time of the year when most of us become ultra-conscious of all the things we have been doing wrong in our lives and vow to fix them, beginning January 1st – or January 15th, depending on whether or not your resolution involves procrastination. Some of us will try to be more punctual; some […]
C.O.C.O. Brown is an entrepreneur, published poet, media consultant, voice-over talent, song writer and artist manager. Consistent with his spirit, Brown believes “to be or to be more … is the better question.” At this stage in his life, he’s even more certain that he can be much more. And he wants that for you […]
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Life tends to get away from us all. We get busy or things aren’t going the way we think they should. But instead of pressing the pause button or focusing all of the things that are going right in our lives, we […]
My mom often laments that when we were kids, she yelled too much or didn’t get down on the floor and play with us enough, but I have no memory of that. I remember that she almost always had a great snack waiting for us after school and that she never, ever missed a basketball […]
We all know people that cannot seem to stop dreaming up ideas to make things better. However, dreaming does not always prove to be enough to make an idea come to fruition. For lack of money, a few connections, and perhaps a bit of guidance, many great ideas never get off the ground. But yet […]