• Your name: Help or hindrance?

    Friday, September 4th, 2009

    In today’s world of poor job expectations, every edge you can get is important. Now there is one hindrance that most people had no hand in and now have to unravel. That is the preconceived idea behind ones name.
     
    With the new trend of mothers using ethnic sounding names, it is thought [...]

  • PETA”s AHA moment

    Friday, August 28th, 2009

    I don’t think that Bill Robinson, the Black tap-dancing artist, could have done faster tap steps than PETA has done recently. They have shuffled and jived their way to remove the offensive billboard in Jacksonville, Florida, showing an overweight woman in a bikini, stomach spilling over saying “save a whale, go vegetarian.” PETA [...]

  • About me continued

    Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

    Its day two of the democratic convention and its getting very interesting. What does this have to do with nursing you might ask? As I stated in my About Me section, I was a child of the forties and the fifties, which was the time of segregation. My school had two sections. One for whites [...]