Archive for June, 2009
By Charlene M. Brown
I used to be the most pessimistic person I knew! I went to a very academically challenging high school and the pressure to go to college was great (to say the least!). One day in the 11th grade, I decided that I wasn’t going to worry about all the little things anymore. I was not going to “sweat the small stuff”, so to speak.
By Charlene M. Brown
By Charlene M. Brown
Charlene M. Brown
Who has pushed you in your life? And I’m not talking about your sister or brother who pushed you down the stairs. I’m talking about, Who, in your Life, has challenged you to push the envelope, made you go a little bit further than you thought you could?
Digging for Knowledge: Michael Jackson . . . . . The Soundtrack of My Childhood
Thriller, Beat it, Billie Jean, Black or White, Rock With You, Human Nature, The Girl is Mine . . . Need I say more? I googled “Michael Jackson” and 68 million websites popped up- 68 MILLION! I don’t “worship” MJ, or even idolize him, but his impact on the history of the world cannot be ignored!
By Charlene M. Brown
At some point, we all get a little lost and confused! Even those of us who feel like we have a pretty good grasp of the way things are going get shaken up a little bit every now and again. The key is not that it happens, but how do you deal with it when it does.
By Charlene M. Brown
Normally, I write to you about other people. But here, I am going to talk to you about myself a little bit and share a part of my Journey with you, as it relates to defining myself as a woman:
By Charlene M. Brown
Did college teach you to lie? To get through by the skin of your teeth? To scramble to make the deadline? To sweet-talk some professor into extending the deadline just for you?
By Charlene M. Brown
Ladies, have you ever had that great guy: you enjoy his company, you see him pretty often, he is gentlemanly, and you have a great time when you are with him? Yet, he won’t agree to taking the next step and being in a relationship with you?
By Charlene M. Brown
In a time past, young girls were taught how to be Young Ladies by their mothers, aunts, grandmothers and female relatives, who were taught the same thing by their mothers, and so on.