Soaring Above New Heights Last weekend was a very emotional weekend for me. I traveled to Fort Benning, GA to watch my husband, Milton, graduate from Airborne School.  He’d already finished his JAG training and now needed to successfully complete five jumps to also have the title of Airborne Paratrooper. The five jumps were supposed [...]

Thanks Giving It always feels nice to do something for someone else, but it seems to be a special lasting memory when you do it for someone you’ve never met!  I had that experience this past Sunday when ladies from our fitness/Zumba studio went and decorated the outside of someone’s house for Christmas.  The wife [...]

Tis the Season For some, this has been a great year with a lot of positive life changes and experiences.  For others, it seems to be the extreme opposite.  They’ve experienced personal loss and setbacks and are anxiously awaiting a new year and change. Regardless of which of these categories you fall in, it’s still [...]

Pasta Please, PLEASE! I love me some Macaroni Grill!  Even if I have nobody to eat it with, I call it in for carryout, take it home and am one with my merry self!  It was a typical Saturday afternoon and Macaroni Grill kept whispering “eat me” in my ear.  At 12:15pm (the times will [...]

Don’t Judge Why are we always so quick to judge someone or a situation?  We love to turn our nose up at something without investing a single lick of time to seeing what it’s all about. I found this happening to me recently.  I was at an event (I won’t say where) and had a [...]

AWESOME! AMAZING! BREATH TAKING! INSPIRING! MOVING! These are all words I’d use to describe last week’s performances of For Colored Girls. I was able to witness a local cast transform the bodies, voices and movements into powerful, meaningful roles.  Although their costumes were mainly simple long skirts and colorful t-shirts, when each person opened their [...]

Real Fake I will admit. I used to want to be on a reality show.  I would submit a questionnaire and several times got asked to submit a video or additional information.  But as you know, I was never selected.  I wanted to be the next Bachelorette.  I wanted a dream wedding by Martha Stewart, [...]

60 Hours I was like a kid running into a toy story.  I just couldn’t wait and was so excited!  I had to wait until 10:00 at night, but it was definitely worth it.  I pulled up, parked my car and waited at the bottom of the escalator.  And I waited some more, wondering if [...]