A New Year’s Dawn By Reggie Legend

A New Year’s Dawn By Reggie Legend

For those that are single (or are in relationships but acting like you’re single), be careful who you hook up with as you start out the new year.  Realizing that some of the craziest parties are getting lined up to b/ring in the new year, does it not make sense that they may attract some [...]

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What I’m Not Gon’ Do In 2012

What I’m Not Gon’ Do In 2012

what i’m not gon’ do in 2012 this year, i am choosing not to make any resolutions. instead, i am going to talk about what i’m not gon’ do in the new year. 1. apologize for who i am and for the choices i make: i tend to be a people pleaser. choosing to apologize [...]

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Resolutions Schmesolutions

Resolutions Schmesolutions

how many people make a resolution each year? How many of those same people break that resolution within the first month? I personally never make a new year’s resolution. I don’t see the need. for some people this is a way of setting goals, but oftentimes these goals are either too broad or too unrealistic [...]

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What Is Your Ideal Vacation? By Gresham Harkless

What Is Your Ideal Vacation? By Gresham Harkless

My idea vacation is to be with my family going to some place out of the country.  For my ideal vacation, I would love to be able to go sight-seeing and do some adventurous things.  At the end of the day, I want to be able to see things and meet people that I would never have [...]

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Success Requires Sacrifice By Jarrai Stephens

Success Requires Sacrifice By Jarrai Stephens

Jarrai Stephens is an Internal Auditor for the Department of the Navy. Best described as “rare and rarely forgotten,” she is an outgoing, charismatic, results-driven lady with swag. This morning I breezed through my usual morning routine: woke up at 5:30 am, watched the news while getting dressed, rode the 6am bus, transferred metro lines, [...]

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Would you accept a position with less pay but doing something that you love or more pay but you hate what you do? Gresham Harkless

Would you accept a position with less pay but doing something that you love or more pay but you hate what you do? Gresham Harkless

Gresham is a freelance writer and entrepreneur.  He graduated from Howard University and Georgetown University. He regularly blogs at his personal blogProgreshion.com……, edits documents at Exemplary Editing and contributes at Hearpreneur.com….  He has been published in the PW Business Magazine, The Prince William News & Messenger and Patch.com…….* “Would you accept a position with less pay but [...]

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Success Is The Work Of Your Hands

Success Is The Work Of Your Hands

Brandelyn N. Castine is the author of 2 novels, Everybody Plays the Fool and U.G.L.Y. She is also the author of Spoken Silence, a volume of poetry and dreams are not concerned, the forthcoming volume of poetry and prose due out June 2011. Please visit the website Website: www.beencee.com… or follow her on Twitter: @BeeNCeedotcom. ["Usually there's a deeper truth submerged [...]

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Filthy Rags To Riches by Reggie Legend

Filthy Rags To Riches by Reggie Legend

We’ve all heard the saying – often uttered out of a sense of humility and Biblical scripture:  “Well, we’re all just filthy rags!”  Well what if it could be revealed scripturally that this mindset is wrong?  I’ll not delay the revelation of scripture until the end of this entry; rather, I’ll just quote it directly [...]

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It’s Not As Black And White As You Think By Crystal Marie

It’s Not As Black And White As You Think By Crystal Marie

*I’m Crystal Marie and I’m the writer for www.awordorthree.com….  I like to say I’m the sole member of “Team Awesome,” but that’s just crazy. All the people that read my blog, follow my tweets, friend me on Facebook, etc are also awesome. As you can see, I’m also modest. Me in Threes   Dane Cook, Kevin [...]

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Are Interracial Relationships Still Taboo? By Bengemin Grehe

Are Interracial Relationships Still Taboo? By Bengemin Grehe

If they aren’t, then why even ask the question?  Clearly some degree of taboo has to exist for situations occurring like the one in Mississippi right now.  They’ve never been taboo to everybody everywhere, and so I suppose the issue is subjective to the relative parties and their immediate environment.  But racism still exists and so long as [...]

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The Clipse – Til The Casket Drops Album Review

Clipse – Til The Casket Drops Artist: Clipse Album: Til The Casket Drops Release Date: December 8, 2009 The long awaited 3rd album from the Virgina duo known as Clipse has finally arrived.  Arguably one of the best duos to ever pick up a microphone have had their share of issues and setbacks prior to [...]

 

My Light/Your Light Let it Shine

I fell Slipped Tripped Landed Into my own arms Melted into my own embrace Resting safely In the first place I could find that was simply enough to carry the wieght Of all that I am All that is me Finally I understand how important it is And what it truly means To fall in [...]

 

July is UV Safety Month

As you can probably feel, summer is officially in full force. And that means you need to take some precautions when out in the sun.  But first, some facts: All skin colors are susceptible to skin cancer, not just fair skin. Most skin cancer is caused by sun damaged that occured before 20-years-old. The sun [...]

 

Real Men Don’t Cry

It has always been taught in this society that if a man cries that he is showing weakness. Most boys hear growing up that REAL MEN DON’T CRY. The most recent example I’ve heard of this is by Trey Songz in his song Made to Be Together. The lyrics are – And I admit some [...]

 

What Is Your Definition Of Success? By Gresham Harkless

Gresham Harkless is a proud graduate of Howard University where he received his Bachelors in English and most recently Georgetown University where he received his Masters in Sports Industry Management.  He devotes his time to Exemplary Editing, his blog Progreshion.com…, and freelance writing. Success is something that is extremely difficult to grasp or put into concrete terms.   The images [...]

 

While You Were Sleeping…

The skepticism of government and government activity can make it easy to forget sometimes how much work goes unnoticed by Americans. Such as the arrest of three terrorism suspects due to an ongoing investigation.  These men targeted in the investigation of course are innocent until proven guilty.  And until I see the story develop, I [...]

 

Drifting

I paused for a moment to let my thoughts meet and I wonder where I drifted off to… a journey that immediately became this poem where Melancholy seems too heavy to wear in this moderate sunshine and blissful seems too loud for this muted sunrise and Blue has no connection within the spectrum of my [...]

 

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God Forgives, I Don’t.
“God forgives, I don’t.” Wow. That’s a pretty strong statement, but to me there is some truth to it. I am the first to admit that I hold  grudges. I’m still mad at Eric Peterson for punching me in the 3rd grade. I will take a dispute to the grave. We may sort of [...]
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4 Ways to Stay Motivated
Thank you for visiting Mocha Writes! Content on this blog includes motivational quotes, motivational articles, business and writing tips. Hope you enjoy! Source Article from www.mochawrites.com……4 Ways to Stay Motivatedwww.mochawrites.com……www.mochawrites.com…Mocha WritesMotivation + Tips for Business & Life
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[Book Review] Sellout by James W. Lewis
I am a firm believer that the experiences each of us have as children help to shape the people that we become as adults.  Some of us bear witness to incidents that cause us to vow to live a completely different life when we grow up while others may be unaware of how those incidents [...]
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