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Tis the season once again to be in the giving mood. Thats exactly what I did a few years back but unknowingly I realy gave! One morning I decided to clean out our closets and dressers of clothing that we no longer wore, Most were new some still in packages with tags still on them. I got mine all finished then started on my son's room lots of outgrown clothes and new toys never played...

Forgive the baseball analogy in the title of this blog. I’m not a fan. It only seems apropos as I navigate through my “golden years." Some time ago I began to feel useless and forgotten after long years in showbiz, a career and marriage had ended. I was sort of “at loose ends” as we here in the hinterlands are fond of saying. Being rather “long in the tooth” (another...

Shaquille O'Neal pulled out his wallet last week and donated money to a family he didn't know. He paid for the funeral of five-year-old Shaniya Davis---the North Carolina girl who was buried last week after being raped and murdered by a man who was settling a debt owed by the girl's mother. Shaq quietly paid for little Shaniya's funeral. I am not a fan of most athletes because I,...

I am Missing My friend Ruth Hamilton I still will keep her alive for her birthday and always, she will not be here on earth this year, Ruth would have been 110 this April 12, 2008 , But we will be Be taking off on The Ruth Hamilton Foundation : This is in honor of Ruth, Ruth always said, that a" hungry child can not learn " Ruth use to take the children home and feed them and...

Growing up in a house where our mother was a strong, dominant figure it took us by surprise when...