Getting Healthy in The Trump Era (Hard to Do)

Years of not so healthy habits have finally caught up with me and a change of lifestyle is necessary. I’ve never been skinny a person, but I have always been physically fit. I’ve listened to my friends and family chat about this and that…high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, cancer, etc. I would listen to […]

What If It Were You?

Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Empathy: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another. What if you were working on a job you loved and had been doing for many years, and one day a powerful group of people decided to tell a lie about you […]

Orange Zest PPE

It doesn’t matter if it’s morning, afternoon, or evening. It doesn’t matter if it’s CNN, Fox, or MSNBC. It doesn’t matter if it’s live, pre-recorded, or old news. Every single time I listen to former President Trump for more than two minutes I get an urge for the effervescent, nose-tickling, clean relief of Alka-Seltzer…preferably orange […]

Loving America

There is no place like home…for me that is America. I’ve traveled and seen many places but at the end of the day I love to be on American soil. I’ve never felt safer or more grounded anywhere else and I’ve been to a few places in my time. Years ago, when I was in […]

Helping Young Americans Remember History

So many young people do not remember the Civil Rights Movement and the wonder and bravery of the young people who changed America. Even I had forgotten how young Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcom X, John Lewis and many others were when they were at the height of the movement…which never stopped by the way […]