Good Morning, Sunshine

Good Morning, Sunshine

Through our book Black and White Like You and Me, we propose that today is a great day to change, to help, to make the world a better place for all people.

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You’re So Hot

You’re So Hot

Sometimes I wonder how people trying to learn English can understand, much less use, different words and expressions.  I remember one of my son’s girlfriends who was Danish and could speak and understand four languages.  In a class at Michigan State University, she...

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Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day

The 1993 smash movie hit Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray is comprised of the same day (Groundhog Day) being looped or repeated with no consequences for what happened that day because the next morning begins a “new”/same day regardless of the “previous” day’s...

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Baby, I Need Your Lovin’

Baby, I Need Your Lovin’

Do you ever go to YouTube music and just browse through the playlists hopeful to find a tune that had made a great influence on your life, a tune that jogs your memory to a time long ago, a tune that you had forgotten just how much you loved? What a world we live in –...

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Update on the Movement

Update on the Movement

This weekend the 2nd Annual Black and White Like You and Me Breakfast was held at the restaurant of my former student at Brother Rice High School, Peter Andoni – Shields Restaurant in Southfield, Michigan.  Over the past week, I could not help reflecting on the past...

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Mom’s Mad

Mom’s Mad

Whether black or white, male or female . . . no matter.  We have all realized that if our mother is angry, we all suffer.  Now, this blog isn’t about anti-motherhood, far from it.  Usually, mom had every right to be mad based on a variety of precipitous situations. We...

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Our Biggest Fear

Our Biggest Fear

Franklin Roosevelt said in his 1932 Inaugural Address as the Great Depression was crippling our country, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” I am not sure how to interpret those eight words, but I am happy that the American people took them to heart and...

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Who Would Have Thunk?

Who Would Have Thunk?

We all have heard someone say, perhaps even ourselves, “That’s not the way I think” or possibly, “I just can’t understand it any other way.” Pastor Glenn McIntosh at the Renaissance Unity Church in Warren, Michigan made a thoughtful point concerning our ability to...

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United We Stand; Divided We Fall

United We Stand; Divided We Fall

This well-known phrase is often assigned to Patrick Henry in his 1799 speech urging against dissenting factions that could have torn apart the fragile union of the United States of America. The phrase, however, existed long before Henry uttered those words as it was...

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Gag me with a spoon

Gag me with a spoon

GAG ME WITH A SPOON: A Valley girl phrase used as an exclamation of disgust Over the years, my good friend Denny McMahon and I would “disgust” each other by texting the name of or a phrase from a song that could “gag” us. We have had a lot of fun with this trying to...

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