Share With the 5 year anniversary of Katrina filling the airwaves, much is being said about The Big Easy. New Orleans has had so much to overcome—Hurricane Katrina and then the BP Oil Spill that has affected that area greatly. New Orleans has struggled to rise back up from the “ashes” so to speak, but [...]

Share …so sue me! When talking to my friend the other day, she asked what I doing and I told her I just had lunch at one of my favorite eateries in the city. She went on to ask me who I dined with and I told her no one. It was just me, my [...]

Share I am not a coffee connoisseur. When I was a little girl, I thought I was quite fancy when my grandmother would give me a cup of coffee steeped in cream and sugar. I didn’t really like the taste of it—I just liked sitting there and looking so grown up drinking coffee. I would [...]

Share Being Kate Moss-esque slim is out and women these days want curves and little meat on their bones. And some of the meat should indeed be on your backside. Yes ladies, our ass has become our ASS-set! Ladies with a nice booty make heads turn, not to mention it fills out jeans ever so [...]

Share This is the 9th or 10th email I received like this this week: Dear Beloved. May the blessings of God be upon you and grant you the wisdom  to understand this situation and how much I need your help. I am suffering from a longtime cancer of the breast which also affected my brain, [...]

Share I have blogged HERE and HERE about my thoughts on student loans. I am still having issues with the repayment of these loans and it seems like I will never be out from under them. My sixteen year old son and I have been discussing college at length lately; we are planning a few [...]

Share I love how the term “expert” is being thrown around these days. There are indeed a few experts who know their way around social media and Twitter, but it isn’t very hard to navigate your brand around Twitter if you use your noggin and watch how others integrate the tool. With that being said, [...]

Share Guest Blog Post By: Ms. Rasberry As a single mother of two, I often find myself trying to balance children, work and social life. It’s not easy to say the least. Recently I’ve decided that life is far too short for me to continue to be unhappy and unfulfilled by my work. I spend [...]

Share As a mother of a six year old little girl, I am very mindful of what she wears. I like for her to dress age appropriate and I do not buy anything that makes her appear older than what she is. I have recently been reading on the web about retailers like Gap making [...]

Share My Blackberry ‘Chloe’ is like my Lois Lane to my Clark Kent. My Robin to my Batman. My Mark Anthony to my Jennifer Lopez. I am sure you get the drift. For over five years, I have been a continued Blackberry RIM supporter and customer. Despite the “hipness” of the iPhone and the popularity [...]

Share A Pop-Tarts “shoppe” in the heart of  Times Square? What will they think of next? Kellogg’s and their brass decided that the world was ready for a Pop-Tarts dining experience. And what better place to try it out than in the most popular area in the world—-New York City’s Time Square. Customers can nosh [...]

Share We all have heard the story of Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater. Apparently having “a bad day”, Slater slings a set of expletives at a passenger whose luggage hit him in the head and then proceeded to get on the loud speaker and curse everyone on the plane out. As a “dueces” to [...]

Share The power of social media, I tell you. MTV thought enough of Twitter and the social media wave that it came up with a contest to engage its readers and followers. The contest was for an MTV TJ (a Twitter Jockey) for their brand, and it was a stroke of genius for the network. [...]