Fired Up, Ready to Go

Happy holidays everyone! Enjoy this video -  a great, very uplifting  song!

The 3 A.M. ad

Remember the “3 A.M. ad”? Casey Knowles, the little girl featured in the ad, does…

The most important speech so far

Today I was lucky enough to be in front of a TV to watch Barack Obama’s speech on race in America and building a more perfect union. This is the most important speech I’ve heard in this presidential campaign so far! I wanted to be there and listen to the full content before the media would select certain parts for their daily spin and bring it all out of contest. Thank you Obama for bringing it all to the table and open new possibilities for us all. Someone once said that if Bill Clinton was the bridge to the 21st century, Obama is the 21st century. How true that seems to be!

Simply the white woman from Kansas

In the capsule version of the Barack Obama story, his mother is simply the white woman from Kansas. The phrase comes coupled alliteratively to its counterpart, the black father from Kenya. On the campaign trail, he has called her his “single mom.” But neither description begins to capture the unconventional life of Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, the parent who most shaped Mr. Obama. Read full story at The New York Times

Little pieces of America

“I just want to say to everybody here that as somebody who was born into a diverse family, as somebody who has little pieces of America all in me, I will not allow us to lose this moment, where we cannot forget about our past and not ignore the very real forces of racial inequality and gender inequality and the other things that divide us.” Barack Obama