TO MY SISTAS. . .

I'm always one that take note of so many things that go on around me. I watch people, watching what they wear, how they carry themselves, and how they treat their children etc.. I like looking at the fashions that women wear to maybe get an idea of what I may want to add to my own collection of clothing. Just checking out what might look good on me.

I've always taken a great pride in what I wear, how my clothes fit me, and etc.. I was more like that when I carried weight over an excess of 4oo lbs. and just because I'm now 190 lbs doesn't mean that I am not as careful as I was before. In fact. . .I am more selective in what I wear and more aware of my body image.

To get to the point. . .MY SISTAS! If you can't afford to get a pedicure. . .there are a wide variety of inexpensive things on the market to give yourself a nice pedicure. One of the main things included in a pedicure is scrubbing and or scapping the dead calluses off of your heals. Stop going out to the stores with ashy feet stuck inside beautiful shoes with your crater calluses exposed in the back. Please put some lotion or oil on your feet and legs. That ain't cool. I would rather see you with sneakers on and a baseball cape on your head than to have your crusty heals exposed to the public. Our race has so much that we are trying to still overcome and that won't help us as black females to do things like that.

Another note TO MY SISTAS! Since when did we as Black Mothers allow our children to run around the store like they have gone plumb wild without any home training? Hollering, crying because U said no to something that they don't need. I grabbed my son many of days when he was growing up and whipped the hell out of him. The ritual is telling them in the car. . .Stick close to me, don't ask for nothin', don't touch nothin', and U better act like you got since. Explain what will happen if they broke the rules and stick to what you say.

I bet that all of the Black Leaders who have struggled for where we are now are turning in their graves disappointed at how the last few generations are destroying the path that they struggled so hard to make for us.

MY SISTAS! . . . It's not just you. It's also some of our DUBIOUS BLACK BROTHERS. On the line with discription: Pants dropped to the behind, dirty dread wearing, ebonic speaking, no job holding, dope selling, baby leaving, school drop out-gangsta wanna bes, acting insignificant blackbehinds. . . . And MY SISTAS . . . . you run after these men that has nothing to offer you. Sometimes I am ashame to call you my BLACK BROTHERS AND SISTAS! I speak this with passion. . .Get up off of your behinds and be counted as one of our Proud Black Achievers!

A BOLD STEP. . .

In the face of all that I have to do from day to day, I've decided to take a bold step. Sometimes we think that we've come to an end on certain things in our lives. I'm no different than the other person when it comes to thinking that. I felt that my days had come to an end with school. I mean . . . look I'm 47 yrs. old. Damn near a century, but I decided to go back to school and get my learn on again. I'm futhering my Associates Degree in Education and aiming for my 4 yr. degree in the same field, but wait. . .I discovered something more profound ! I am able to get my 4 yr. degree in Criminal Justice also by doing a double major. Hummmmmmm. . . how can any one resist that? So let's do the math. According to my Advisor, I have 4 classes to do to get the Criminal Justice Degree and 15 classes to do to get the Education Degree. I am getting the chance to extend my Associate Criminal Justice Degree also. How about that?

Am I actively using my CJC Degree? Hell no! Never thought about chasing criminals. I was interested in the law and the rights of an individual in case I had found myself on the wrong side of the law one day. Huuummmmmmm!! I think that many should study law, but I have been actively using my Associates in Education Degree within the school system. So I thought about once I get both of those degrees, I can seriously change my course of action in my job and work more in the field of Childen Intervention programs. Too many children slipping through the cracks, especially black children. I figure that I can make a difference somewhere and somehow. So I'm thinking "Man I might be the Oldest Geezer going to school" and behold while at the University. . .I saw a lot of Old and some older Geezers roaming around as lost as I was trying to get things in order for the start of the fall semester. I felt that maybe later during the semester I would seek them out and they could work with me to get this old mind oiled up for learning. Who knows. . . just maybe I can make a difference with them also. So as we say in church. . ."If anyone out there knows the word of prayer." keep me in yours that I may do good in this and accomplish what I desire in my heart to do.

God Bless You!