Today I give thanks. One of my favorite quotes is, "I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

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----Yolanda Webb ---- First Things First Four years ago today, I took my first-ever helicopter ride. In a military Blackhawk no less. ...

Is this the Summer of Our Discontent, and can we face our continued moral failings by doing nothing?

Now that I have your attention with that title...you know the rest of that saying.

Let's face it... we all get old. There is no ticket out of aging. There's no influencing that can keep us young. Youthfulness has been cele

I have heard the saying, "if you see something, say something," ... as the prompt to speak out about racism... hold on its not that easy...

Today, the word family means a lot more than it used to. Today, we tend to see family as no longer the nuclear man, woman and two children.

I spent this weekend in near silence. One thing I did not want to do was talk about the events surrounding the electoral college vote.

This New Year is significant considering the year we are leaving behind us. As the clock moved from 11:59 to midnight to mark the New Year,

As we close the book on the Christmas of 2020, will we have stories to tell!

A culture shift? A culture shift that we are enduring in the middle of a culture shock.

A hug makes us feel loved and connected. When we hug someone, our body releases the oxytocin hormone also known as the love hormone.

For all that is going wrong, it took a group of nine-year old kids, to remind me that no amount of fear, anger, hate, injustice, or racism,

I had gotten to the place where Fannie Lou Hammer once described as being sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Perhaps on the other side…we can find our why.

I do not know about you, but I just do not see or feel anything normal about this. It feels as if I have entered the Twilight Zone.

"what I hear everyone saying is that in order for us to change the world...we must be brave."

So, what does ‘resilience’ really mean? Have we so watered down the word that it no longer has any value?

“Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that