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With fame comes opportunity, but in my opinion, it also includes responsibility – to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings and, if I’m lucky enough, then to inspire. Meghan Markle Meditation: It is fascinating to think that Meghan is 36 years old today, while PrincessContinue reading “With Fame Comes Responsibility…”

My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I’m half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating. Meghan Markle Meditation: When my biracial daughters were four years old they witnesses how a biracial man was sworn in as the US President. For eightContinue reading “Being Biracial…”

If you want to preserve – I’m very serious now – if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That’s how dictators get started.Continue reading “Preserving Democracy As We Know It…”

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. James O’Barr Meditation: “There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so.  One must simply hold out and endure it. Continue reading “The Absence Of Someone Dear To Us…”

When you have children, your marriage is now more important, not less, because other people are counting on you – Sheila Gregoire Meditation: In the recent months my husband of twenty years and I admitted that we had shamefully neglected our marriage. Everything else came first: our work, our children, the education on the sideContinue reading “Recovery Of A Marriage…”

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling Meditation: Many of us remember their mothers today. Many women are being thanked and celebrated on this special occasion, and they deserve all recognition and love that comes their way. I like to also remember on this day, that there are many unusualContinue reading “Mothers Day”

What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible. John Lewis Meditation: I feel energized and excited today as this week I am participating in the national conference of the ACPE communityContinue reading “You Can Make The Impossible Possible…”

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. Iyanla Vanzant Meditation: Raising twin daughters has been a spiritual journey for us as parents. My husband and I are both people who do not compare ourselves with others. We do not envy or strive for something because somebody else has it. We do strive forContinue reading “Comparison Is An Act Of Violence…”

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete. Shannon L. Alder Meditation: Every Sunday I am ending the worship service of the German church here in Atlanta with the words: “And now go forth, love God, love yourself and love and serve the world!” Some attendees might be surprisedContinue reading “Love Of Self…”

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial. Robin Marantz Henig Meditation: We live in the era of deception. A six year old on the street was asked what he thought about president Trump after hisContinue reading “More Than Hundred Words For Deception…”