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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Redefine your child’s definition of success

I know that I spend a great deal of time discussing my secrets to success. However, most of my lessons were learned as an adult and as a result of much trial and error.  In this post, I want to share another theory of how we can help our children experience success without some of the [...]

 

7 / 30 : atlas.

i went to bed mad late. i woke up mad late. this poem is probably going to be off as hell. but i have…23 other poems to make up for it. atlas in greek mythology, Atlas was a  Titan  who’s name translates roughly into hard, enduring,  who at the end of a great war was [...]

 

The Beautiful U.G.L.Y. Project Volume 7

Art Begets Art I saw a picture one day with a bunch of hearts intertwined with each other and the caption said, Love Begets Love. I was immediately drawn to this piece because it is so true. Love begets love and in my world Art begets Art. The New Year is approaching and as usual, [...]

 

there’s still hope for haiti

For all you iPhone users obsessed with pretty protective cases (like myself), do something good with your next purchase – make a donation to the Red Cross for Haiti! Uncommon has created 7 iPhone cases bundled into the Haiti Relief Collection. You’ll even be happy to learn that 100% of the proceeds will go to [...]

 

From Alice Walkers Blog…Stories from Haiti

Thursday, January 21, 2010 “Re: Haiti: Passing on to you something that may help lift us from this sorrow.” Sasha Kramer sent a message to the members of Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL). ——————–Subject: Kouraj cherie: Update from Port au Prince This afternoon, feeling helpless, we decided to take a van down to Champs Mars [...]

 

Planning for the future: using life insurance to create a legacy

Once upon a time, buying life insurance was as simple as the insurance man coming to your house, selling you a policy and coming by weekly to collect your premium. We learned something from this experience once our older relatives passed, those insurance men didn’t have their clients best interest at heart. They were merely [...]

 

Aircraft Accidents: Tragedy, and the Lessons Learned

Is it just me or does it seem that this year has provided us with some harrowing experiences with aircraft?  There was the plane landing in the Hudson; there was the plane lost in the Atlantic; and now a tragic experience outside of the commercial aviation industry – the collision of two General Aviation aircraft. My condolences [...]

 

YWB Spotlight: Liz Niemiec & Little Wish Foundation

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On: My Life not being a Rom-Com…
So…I’m always having these in depth talks with my girlfriends regarding the status of our love lives…or lack there of.  As a first generation immigrant family, my parents have this idea of the perfect fellow for me to marry and start my life with. He has to be of this descent, be this [...]
Posted 08 February 2012 by PharmChic  Add comment

Our Lady Peace Releasing New LP
Our Lady Peace Our Lady Peace will release their eight studio album, Curve, on April 3. “This is the record we’ve been trying to make for the past 10 years. There’s something to be said about being beaten up and being able to dust yourself off and get back in the ring,” [...]
Posted 07 February 2012 by Eardrum Krushez  Add comment

Motivational Monday- 2.6.12
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……Motivational Monday- 2.6.12www.mochawrites.com……www.mochawrites.com…Mocha WritesMotivation + Tips for Business & Life
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