July 30, 2023 bywriterspathway Assuming the new role of entrepreneur while pursuing a career as an artist (writer) can be the biggest challenge for those of us whom are not naturally gifted at business matters. Now I have the ability to be free of the day job if not permanently often fo...
so if you believe you have made a mistake, no matter how trivial, you are clearly unsuitable for a political career. If you have never made a mistake, ever, then you have the right mental make-up to start thinking about standing at the next election. ...
My earliest recollection of any type of racism—evidence of an attitude of superiority of one race over another—in my extended family is the use among my many Italian American aunts and uncles of the Italian word for eggplant (moulinyan) to refer to African Americans. As a boy, I could ...
Until the rain starts.Tsuyu, a word poetically comprised of the characters for plum (梅) and rain (雨) is when shit gets real on the islands. Even if it doesn’t rain, you can be sure that it threatens to. Weather forecasters rejoice, and go on extended vacation after blocking out ...
Don Winslow: After spending time talking with addicts, I learned so much about the heroin epidemic. Of course, I’m aware that opiates are an answer to pain. In fact, the word ‘heroin’ derives from the German word for ‘hero’ because it was designed to treat wounded soldiers. It’s...
Being a felonious convicted South Carolinadrug dealerand suspected arrestedpedophiledidn’t stopCharlamagne Tha Godfrom impacting his radio career withCumulusor prevent him from becomingWendy Williams’second mc. And MK ULTRA/MONARCHmind controlhandler. ...
On a crisp autumn afternoon, I step onto a public pathway and fall in love with fall. I’ve always tried to call the season by its proper name: autumn. I think it was never a true season for me. I lived in places where there were no real seasons, or where the change from one ...
Pow-wow, from the Algonquian word for a gathering of people, began to be used in Oklahoma around 1900. Soon the dance on the Southern Plains took the form of the traditional Straight Dance: traditional dancers move proudly and sedately. On the Northern Plains each tribe developed its own un...
I sensed how calm I felt. In control. I sensed how powerful this short meditation had been for me.I had let go of the “necessary” outcome. I had just let myself be present.” After everyone returned their attention to the room, with the mowers still at work, I asked what it was...
This was a test for NASA to see if they could send a man into space, would he survive in 1961. By the time Surveyor 7 completed operations on the moon in February 1968 — just 10 months before Apollo 8 orbited the moon — the pathway for the first crewed lunar landing of Apollo 11...