Authentically Nita

I got tagged yesterday by PromoMama , owner of two geat blogs, Promo Mama and How Does Mama Look? I now have to share 7 random things about myself. Here I go: 1. I'm supposed to be engaged but I still have doubts. 2. I had my first child when I was 15. 3. I can't keep up with the new music anymore. Everytime I turn around my daughter's singing something new. 4. I just saw the Temptations movie for the first time last week. (Where have I been? It was a really good movie). 5. I can watch Law & Order SVU re-runs over and over no matter how many times I've seen them. 6. I spend way too much time on the internet. 7. I take my One-A-Day multi vitamin more than once a day. Now it is my turn to tag! http://urbanreformnetwork.blogspot.com http://expand-yourmusichorizon.blogspot.com http://eskimodarryl.blogspot.com http://thirtyhood.blogspot.com http://anna-lorraine.blogspot.com/

Since I heard the words, "Barack Obama will be our 44th President," I have been going through a tidal wave of emotions. At first I screamed and yelled to express how extremely happy I was. The morning after, I was pretty quiet. I was pretty much speechless the whole day as I tried to take in the events from the night before. Yesterday, I sat teary eyed as I thought about how hard Obama fought for this and how hard many African Americans fought for all of us through history. This is truly a remarkable time in history for us as a people. I am so proud of Barack Obama and his beautiful family. I am grateful for people like him, people like Dr. King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman. When I was younger, my father often told me, that I could be anything I wanted to be when I grew up. He told me that being black and being a woman wouldn't stop me from doing anything that I was really passionate about. However, I remember having a different history book in each grade and

Wordpress blogs come with a Label Cloud, instead of the long list of Labels that we have on our Blogger sites. I've found the code and directions for getting one of these nifty little subject boxes, but wouldn't it be nice if Blogger just gave it to us? (By nice I mean simple and less time consuming).

Over to my blog that is. During the month of November I will be having some guests share their talent right here on my Blah, Blah Blog! Please show some love and comment on the poems, stories and blogs they will share.

Why, oh why can't the citizens of our city celebrate without acting completely insane? We won the World Series and you'd think it would be a time to lift the city and praise. Instead, last night people rioted and destroyed the city. Doing everything from having fire riots, to breaking store windows, almost knocking over statues, looting, dumping over the metal trashcans in center city, turning over the big ceramic pots, trying to turn over a school bus, throwing glass bottles at police officers, tearing up street signs and spray painting them. I'm surprised that only two police officers were hurt. This is supposed to be a good thing, so why are people breaking things and destroying the city? You're supposed to break things when you're angry, not when your happy. Get it together people. This is costing the city money. Businesses can't open because they have to clean their stores and get the windows fixed. This is ridiculous. Here's a photo of the fire. It do

Yeah baby!!!!! I would now like to dedicate this song to the Rays: Thumbs up to the Phillies for being the best baseball team out there and for giving us a wonderful baseball season!

The scene this morning at the Walk to cure Diabetes: Teams bustin' a move on the Art Museum steps. The D.J. was really good and took songs by request. St. Joseph's Cheer Leaders Dancing Londa and me. The five of us. Distant shot of the Art Museum. We had a lot of fun & we give the JDRF a big thumbs up for making this charity event such a great atmosphere to bring the whole family to! Can't wait 'til next year!