Monthly Archives: October 2013

Relationships
Friends with Benefits
October 25, 2013 2 Comments

Friends With Benefits: What’s in it for Who?

Sweetest Day has come and gone. Fall is here. Cuffing season recruitment is just about done. And Men, here you are STILL SINGLE!! What’s a guy to do?  Well you could follow the advice of a well known pop star and “Call up that shrink in Beverly Hills. You know the one? Dr. “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright.” But what many men do is look to their PURELY PLATONIC friends for a little “comfort and consoling.”  This sort of arrangement is commonly known as “friends with benefits.” Friends with benefits, loosely defined, is when two people with a history of successful […]

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Rants
Bad Attitude
October 25, 2013 2 Comments

Black Women Have Bad Attitudes: Myth Busted!

MYTH:  It’s a well-known fact that Black women have bad attitudes. They don’t smile, they have sharp tongues, and they’re bitter. And if they think they look good, they won’t even speak. INQUIRY:  Who are the people who make these accusations against Black women? Clearly not their children who are the beneficiaries of all the self-sacrifices they make in the name of motherhood including suspension of their social lives.  Certainly not the elderly parents who they take in and care for while others get placed in rest homes. Not their employers who frequently rave about their high-quality hard work and […]

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Relationships
October 13, 2013 0 Comments

Why “Separated” Isn’t Good Enough

As a single woman, I get hit on all the time by men from various walks of life, and that’s to be expected. But what I don’t necessarily expect is to get hit on by married men. Why? Well, because they’re married! I’m at that age where most of my friends are married, my parents have been married for 47 years, and my aunts and uncles stayed together until death did they part…literally. So with that being said, I am one to have the utmost respect for marriage as an institution under God. When you get hit on by a […]

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Relationships
Photo by Johari Davis
October 13, 2013 35 Comments

DIVORCED IS THE NEW SEXY!

5 Reasons Divorced Women are Marrying Faster than Single Women Divorced women are effortlessly finding Husband #2 while single women, with or without children, are having difficulty finding Husband #1. Once women hit the age of 30, the statistics become alarmingly worse. But why is that? What do divorced women have that makes their chances of matrimony greater? Here are the top five reasons why men are making a dash to the aisle faster with repeat offenders. Credibility: When a man sees a beautiful, intelligent woman over 30 who hasn’t jumped the broom yet, he thinks one thing, “What’s wrong […]

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Sports
NBA
October 13, 2013 3 Comments

The TOP 10 NBA Players of All Time: Revised Edition

WARNING LABEL: Dr. J ain’t on the list, and Michael Jordan ain’t #1. NBA basketball is in full swing so let’s have some fun with something all guys love to do: make a top ten list. This issue, we’re looking at the ten greatest players in NBA history. Our criteria: the player must have (1) earned at least two rings, (2) been a Finals MVP, and (3) been a league MVP. Sorry, Dr. J. So here we go. Let us know if you agree or disagree. 10.       LeBron James: The most physically gifted player of all time is right before […]

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Relationships
man tug of war (2)
October 12, 2013 0 Comments

You Want Him?! Me Too!!! Eliminating the Other Woman

Ladies, Sisters, Girlfriends, and Fellow Divas, How many times have we found ourselves unwilling participants in a love triangle you never knew existed?! While we all know the high road is to address the vortex (the man), there are those times when we somehow end up face-to-face with the other woman and have no choice except to address her as the competition. Now, the first decision to be made is do we really want him and the relationship. As women, before we engage in conflict over a man, we need to examine the man in question and decide if there is […]

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Sports
Mike & LeBron Bigger
October 1, 2013 4 Comments

WHO WINS: MJ vs. LeBron

By Augustus Golden One of the immense pleasures of sports talk is comparing “greats” from different eras: The 85 Bears vs. The 72 Dolphins, Mike Tyson vs. Muhammad Ali, Michael Johnson vs. Usain Bolt. These days, the hot topic of debate is one that, up until recently, was unthinkable.  I mean, how dare we suggest that there is a mere mortal who could actually challenge Michael Jeffrey Jordan as the master of the hardwood? But now with the emergence of LeBron James AKA King James, for the first time since the 80s we have a legit debate. So who would […]

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Relationships
October 1, 2013 1 Comment

Wait on the Lord

By Melissa Harris “Wait on the Lord and He will direct your path.” I hear so many people make statements like the one above all the time. Even though it’s not an actual bible scripture, there are so many scriptures in the bible that allude to the above statement. But what does it actually mean to wait on the Lord? Does it mean to sit down on your couch and wait for God to speak in an audible voice as to what your next direction should be in life? From what I understand, it means to first acknowledge that he […]

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