Coming to Life…Literally Darlene was recently a guest on Valerie Hope’s show. Valeria and Darlene were discussing how Darlene lost her voice at an early age not due to physical ailment, but from a belief that what she had to say didn’t matter. The trauma of a broken...

From the time a young woman sits in front of the TV, she sees beautiful women in a variety of roles including commercials, television series and, of course, reporting the news and weather. By the time she is ten or eleven, she’s learned about the modeling world and...

Too often, we reflect on what we lack, what we desire, what we feel we deserve. I guess we all tend to think that way when times are tough, or we are under pressure, or it is simply “one of those days or weeks.” That is human nature. It is hard for many of us to turn...

All too often, society forgets about the single parent.  All too often, attention is “tuned” to the situations that the media emphasizes.  And all too often, the reality and hardship of being a single parent escapes society’s attention. It has been reported that of...

Recently, the Wall Street Journal ran a front-page story on Amazon, as they are continuing to sell clothing from factories that are shunned by other retailers. Following a tragic factory fire in 2013 that resulted in over 1,100 deaths, the largest U.S. retailers...

At the age of 15, my sweet little brother’s spine and pelvis were crushed in a bicycle accident. He’d never walk again without assistance. There’s so much Danny didn’t get to do. He didn’t get to go to college, because back in the early seventies, colleges weren’t...

Once, back in the days when I was a waitress, I tore up a tip that a “nice” guy left at my table. I was furious because he’d comforted me after another customer harassed me, and when I cleared his table and collected the generous tip he’d left, I noticed that he’d...