Top Talent, Vaughn Lowery pulled up out of his impoverished neighborhood in Detroit, had the opportunity to accelerate in Advanced Placement Classes in high school and received scholarships from University of Michigan and Cornell. He chose Cornell. From the Detroit changing neighborhood of “No Success,” Vaughn moved into “Success.” He has chronicled … Read...
READ MORE >>Here’s an excerpt from Ronnie Pierce’s Book: Memories & Lots Of Love. Ronnie is a local jazz musician who has been on the music scene for many years. He’s well known because he has played with some of the greats. He’s in music books and audio tapes of Seattle’s history, but he wanted to tell this story with me, using songs from the latest CD he recorded. “Intro… Read...
READ MORE >>STORY NUMBER ONE Many Years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago. Capone wasn’t famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder. Capone had a lawyer nicknamed “Easy Eddie.” He was Capone’s lawyer for a good reason. Eddie was very good! In … Read...
READ MORE >>Tami and I are planning a weekend getaway, just us girls, to celebrate our sixtieth year. She turned sixty last December, and I am becoming sixty at the end of July. We were first going to take a train down to California. And then we decided she could fly to Seattle and we would go away and have time to talk and be. I’ve known Tami since I was four. When I think of Tami, I … Read...
READ MORE >>It’s a great question to ask because none of us knows when our time is going to happen when we get off this earth planet. And I don’t mean like an astronaut. I am talking death. This question may leave us a little bit uncomfortable, but if we realize and can accept that our mind and body are going to die, we may create more opportunities to live life in a fuller way. Ask … Read...
READ MORE >>It Is The First Day (Edited Transcript) Good-Morning, it is the first day of my Write Heart Memory challenge. I have butterflies in my stomach because I’m a pretty private human being and yet I need my tribe of people and the only way I’m going to get my tribe of people is if you know me. So just to let you know, we are doing this Write Heart Memory Challenge together. … Read...
READ MORE >>My brother-in-law had his leg removed above the knee and is in the hospital. He was married to my sister who passed away at the end of January 2016. He never regained his momentum or his desire to live because Linda was his anchor. They live in Ohio. I tried to keep in touch with him, but when someone moves and someone doesn’t respond to your phone calls or emails, yo… Read More
READ MORE >>We feel stuck when we don’t have a vision in ourselves, or we don’t have the time to implement our passion. When we take a job because we know, we can do it, but it doesn’t feed our soul. I know these feelings because I am taking a job until the end of June so that my money flow gets flowing again. I know many people can say this is true about them. But the difference for me … Read...
READ MORE >>As you are reading this story imagine a kind looking older man. You can tell he has lived a lot of life by the gruffness of his voice, the way he has to pick through his thoughts and memories as he expresses himself and then the deep belly laugh of acceptance peppered, in between paragraphs and feelings of his talk. Bob is my dog walker, pet and house sitter when I am a… Read...
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