Archive for the ‘ Life ’ Category

What I Learned from Sonny Chiba

29th May 2011 | 0 Comments

I bought a 3-disc Bruce Lee DVD about a couple of years ago. One of the disc contained three 1970′s movies starring a Japanese actor named Sonny Chiba. Chiba plays Takuma (Terry in the English dub) Tsurugi. These movies were The Street Fighter, Return of the Street Fighter, and Sister Street Fighter. They were chock [...]


Exhale, Mr. President

4th May 2011 | 0 Comments

Like many of you, the inauguration moved me deeply. I was holding my breath with you when Barack was taking his oath of office. I think this was the first time I had ever seen Mr. Unflappable … flapped… But who could blame him? The significance of the mantle laid upon him is no joke. [...]


MLK Day – Not just for Black Folks

4th May 2011 | 0 Comments

On this Martin Luther King day I am yet again struck by how this celebration has been, year after year, portrayed as a ‘Black Thing’. It is not. Dr. King stated “… many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with [...]


R.I.P. Mr. Studs Terkel

4th May 2011 | 0 Comments

I ‘discovered’ Studs Terkel about 9 or 10 years ago. I was pregnant and needed something to read to help me through the sleepless nights. I drove a few towns over and went to a local thrift store. They had oodles of noodles of books, so I took my time, thinking that I had no [...]


The Heavier Things

20th April 2011 | 0 Comments

Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life. More to come…

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