& This Christmas

My Auntie Kitty always has at least two Christmas trees and more than two dozen people in her house. Christmas is her holiday. My mother’s is the fourth of July Thanksgiving is always a surprise here lately. “It’s too much food. Too much money.” 10 children and 28 adults That’s the count this year for…

& 3 Websites to Get Free Goodies

I don’t curse so free is my favorite four letter “f” word as far as I’m concerned. There’s nothing that’s makes my day better than someone giving me something awesome for the price of nothing. As an optimist, I had to try a few sites and here are three places where you can get hookups…

& The Greater Good 

Apparently there’s a lot of confusion in Kimmel’s video helping Chelsea Clinton promote Americans to serve a year in AmeriCorps. Service is something I feel passionate about so I commented on the video informing folks that national service isn’t just the army and of course someone responded that serving in AmeriCorps isn’t doing anything “good…

& Friendships

They say the older you get the more you grow a part from people. The optimist in me didn’t want to believe it though. I hold on firmly to the philosophy that you’re only as young as you think you are. Some of my friends (who are a few months younger than me) do not…

What Happened to the Music: My Rant on Fame & the Media

I hate the way the media creates these celebrities just to knock them down & bash them in the end. Celebs are not superhuman and wealth is in no way considered a superpower. Just because someone is in the spotlight doesn’t exempt them from some of the struggles that other people go through. I didn’t…

& MTV’s DisCONNECTED

Intense is definitely a great adjective to describe MTV’s newest digital drama “Disconnected”. I haven’t seen a movie like this ever. The characters are so real it’s hard to forget you’re watching a movie and not a reality TV Show. If you haven’t heard of it, “Disconnected” follows 4 teenagers from 4 different places who…