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