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• Givers Vs. Takers 2016

  In certain situations, we as a species aren’t divided by gender, eye color, ethnicity, social class, religion, education or intellect .  We’re divided into two... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• It Was Three Years Ago

  

  But my story, our story goes back even  further.    It was 1999 when we met and at a hair salon of all places.      She invited me back to her home which was... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• It’s Over

  He shall henceforth be known as His Royal Hairness.I kid. I kid. I offer President Trump my congratulations. His participation in this race was crass, vulgar,... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• ‘Twas The Night Before Election Day

  

  And a few took a nap, 40 winks…a siesta, Hillary’s people were tired, but not John Podesta He is nervous, sweating bullets, as he always should have been. But h... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Letter To Myself

  

  Dear Laurie At Age 11,It’s Halloween 2016 and you’re about to read a blogpost that conceptually speaking, has been purloined.  On this spooky day in the 57th... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Ain’t It A Bitch?

  The biggest kick in the figs has got to be emotional deflation.*When you realize the love of your life never existed; when you wake up bored and the boredom... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• AHS Season 6/ Episodes 5 & 6

  I’m nuts.   Seriously.I vowed I wouldn’t write again about the FX series,  American Horror Story, but I’m compelled to do so, in part because I just watched... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Mother Make It Stop!!!

  

  I cringe for these so called ‘third wave campus feminists’, whove turned hating men into an embraasing art firm.   They find triggers in everything that... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Worth Mentioning

  Dear SK130,Received your note.You must have been reading posts from years ago and if that’s the case, those were merely me going off an a political tangents wit... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• She’s Jewish and Black

  I heard a story recently. It’s about a woman whose mother was of European  extraction, her father is Black and Protestant, in name only. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Toothaches Can Be An Allegory

  The second presidential debate is now history.   I refused to watch it, because had I done so, my death would have been imminent.   You see, I have no patience... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• An Untitled Ode

  If I were asked to name a new rock band, I’d call it Ava’s Gardner.I thought about that while waiting in line at the Walgreen’s in my hamlet. Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• AHS Season 6 Episode 2

  Well, “My Roanoke Nightmare” continues to entertain.It starts off kind of where last week’s show left off, but not exactly.    Last week’s show ended with Shelb... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• AHS Season 6 Episode 1

  Interesting.Very interesting.The episode, entitled My Roanoke Nightmare, harkens back to season one when uttering the word, Croatan would make the ghosts of... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• American Horror Story: Season 6

  I tolerated five shows of Season 5 and checked out early for Season 4 ,so Ryan Murphy, this is your last chance.Mr, M is being very hush hush about this season. Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• 9/12/16

  I still think a lot about 9/11, the  day that changed the world.     Some would say evil showed its ugly face ion that day in the form of four hijacked 757s;. Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• 9/11: Fifteen Years Later

  The phone rang in my Houston home that morning, a few minutes before 8:00.  A friend mine called about some journalistic so tasks on my nerves”to do”list. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• 9/11: Fifteen Years Later

  The phone rang in my Houston home that morning, a few minutes before 8:00′.         A friend mine called about some journalistic so tasks on my nerves”to... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Something For Jimmy

  Jim Pruett.Great Name.  I always liked it.  It sounded suave, debonaire, like a cool British MI6 agent, not unlike the name, Brit Hume.    Both like their... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Things I Don’t Like

  

  Technically,   ex-boyfriends would take the  top five….count’em….top five spots,  but I want to talk specifically about the sights, sounds, smells,... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2016 SELF EXPRESSION