An excerpt from The SHACK...

Sarayu said; "Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, MY purposes are accomplished and nothing will ever be the same again."

[Author: Wm. Paul Young]

If you haven't had a chance to read this extraordinary book, consider this my recommendation for a GREAT summer read. Although it's a fictional novel -- the spirtual impartation is life changing!

Hey, Hey, Hey! What Ya Got to Say...???!!!

Ok so we’ve got garbage pail ails…faulty school supply lists, tax abatements or not, layoffs, new appointments, movement here, there and everywhere! One would think Plainfield was a mess. Yet I look outside and the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the grass is green (at least on this side) the streets are clean, children are playing and the sky is blue.

Maybe it’s not utopia but certainly alive and kicking.

It is said our words create our reality. Well I say we better start speaking life and hope and courage and strength and excellence into our city officials, our schools, our children and our community…try it…we've done the other part so fluently and frequently -- what is the worse that could happen?!?!

Tell me something good about your day, your city, your neighborhood. There has got to be SOMEThing!

My Word!

*Walkie your Talkie*

The APPLES Blossom:
Abbott Preschool Program Longitudinal Effects Study

(APPLES)
Preliminary Results through 2nd Grade
Interim Report - June, 2009

Please click on the image above to review this all important, eye opening report that is at the heart of PLAINFIELD's current EDUCATIONAL STRATAGEM!

Getting To Know Me...

If A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words... Then this posting is PRICELESS!

My Foundation!

Mi Familia

Mi Amore

My Philosophy!

My Beginning

My Extension

My Guitarista

My Hope

My Troubles... Rut-RoOhhh!

My Rite "Right" of Passage!

Coming Right Up!!!...

I'm still working out the details: mentally, physically, emotionally and creatively -- but it's coming/humming/churning along.

My goal is to be "regular" come August 1st!

I thank you for your patience and continued support and I look forward to providing you with some simple prose, thoughtful conjecture and yes "O"pinionated opining -- in truth and with love.

Until then - be well and Walkie your Talkie!

Hello There

Good Afternoon My online friends;

I've been doing some vacationing (much needed) as well as some introspection (again - much needed) to help me decide on the new format for this Blog. I really do not want to do a reiteration of the news and happenings of Plainfield -- Bernice, Old Doc, and Maria do that well enough...nor am I interested in the Political haggling -- our city councilman/woman/ and assemblyman blogs provide enough of that stuff.

I'm simply repositioning myself and this blog to provide you with some day-to-day truths in the world according to me. Needless to say it will raise some eyebrows, some dander, and hopefully some giggles -- but it shouldn't cause anyone to "jump" off buildings or "run" into oncoming traffic!

I look forward to sharing some of my family's poetry, some photo ops and just the diatribe, or not, diary of a "Not So Mad Black Woman".

I'll be chatting with you. Until then be well...and walkie your talkie!