Vikings and Saints Encore

Dear NFL, Thank you for finally starting! Finally! Tonight’s the kickoff game between the Saints and the Vikings. The States were left so enamored with the victory over Indianapolis in Miami at the end of last year’s season it’s been arranged for them to be the kickoff team this year. Vikings and Saints have played … Read more

Lydia Caesar’s Masterpiece

Dear Friends of Sunny, I haven’t done a post this personal and this reflective in awhile but I opened three emails this morning that touched, moved and inspired me in a way that brought to light in a major way the impact the people in my life have on me as an individual. The first … Read more

5 Things About Sunny

Dear Friends, It’s not often that I get an opportunity to write to you about who I am. Today is the last day of me being the me you have always known me to be. I am in a Transformative Education Course called Landmark Education in which I have the opportunity to create for myself … Read more

Better Woman

Dear Better Woman, We spend so much time trying to be better, trying to more perfect, more amazing, fixed from every problem that has ever graced our lives and sometimes it just takes someone reminding you that you are perfect just the way you are. You are also human and wake up that way every … Read more

Yes…We Know Your Name

Dear You, You and You, One night after our bi-weekly trip to a comedy club the Chipettes were frequenting at the time we decided to go out with the comedians to this deli around the corner (we’ve since enforced rules about this but that’s for another blog). Just as Eleanor and I are approaching the … Read more

Moving

Dear Brooklyn, A little over a year ago I physically moved my home from Sunny California to Sunny-at-times-Brooklyn. I’ve learned there is a physical move that takes place immediately and an emotional move that you want to take place immediately but happens sometime after the physical move actually occurs. Physically, I started packing boxes, deciding … Read more

Can Men and Women be Friends

It all started with the age old adage on When Harry Met Sally, this belief that men and women can’t be friends without one or the other developing some kind of feeling towards the other. I hadn’t heard this argument in a long time but now Steve Harvey has taken to traveling the world, newly … Read more

Why Are You Reading My Diary!?!

Dear Vanessa Williams, When I went to sleep last night I made sure to lock every door, close every window and I placed the pepper spray squarely on my bedside table  in case any intruders should try to invade my home in the middle of the night.  Yet, you still somehow managed to sneak in … Read more

The Night of the Intruder

Dear Mattel, Since I was born I have been collecting your Cabbage Patch Dolls.  As a child I liked them to play with and do all of the normal girly things with but despite a number of dolls that lost head, clothes, arms and legs over the years my Cabbage Patch Dolls I could never … Read more

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