#40IsLikeWhoa: Yolanda Cox
Does this look like a grandmother to you? There are just a few things that stick out to me about Yolanda from our years together in high school. We were not friends. I’m not even sure if we spoke to …...
View Article#40IsLikeWhoa: Evie Gonzalez
What do you get when you put a Jersey Girl and a South Side Chicago Girl together? Jingle skirts. You get jingle skirts. That probably doesn’t make sense to you. It makes perfect sense to me. To most...
View Article#40IsLikeWhoa: Jen Hendershott
I don’t even know how to start. I love this woman. Not just the two time Ms. Fitness Olympia and the previous Ms. Fitness International, not just the woman putting on the All Women’s Big Shott Classic...
View Article#40IsLikeWhoa: Dr. Naomi Jacobs-El
One of my favorite sayings is “The struggle is real but the victory is too.” And I’ve never known a person who was quietly on the grind (ALL of the time) like my friend, Naomi. And now she’s has her …...
View Article#40IsLikeWhoa: Jada Wright Nichols
I wish I had the words to explain how I feel about this woman. I also wish that conversation we had via Facebook one day had happened earlier. The girl I had only really known as the “Jada the...
View Article#40IsLikeWhoa: Liz Bowden
This could turn into a very long post so I will try to condense eleven years of thoughts, work and admiration into a few sentences. Liz isn’t the “touchy feely” type anyway and she is probably too busy...
View Article#40IsLikeWhoa: Me
From a housing project….. to my very own Wheaties Box…. 40 IS like WHOA because I swear I didn’t think I was going to make it. I usually spend every Friday highlighting a rock star woman in my life who...
View Article#40IsLikeWhoa: Rosalyn Thompson-Blackwell
Wow. Just wow. I don’t even know where to begin. Let me just say, before I go off on a tangent and this becomes a book instead of a blog entry that I have learned more about “growing up” and … Continue...
View ArticleBye, Felicia….
I wish Felicia was chocolate and Starbucks. My life would be easier if I could just say, “Bye!” and be over it. Chocolate and Starbucks could NEVER be Felicia. Let’s just stop talking about it, o.k.?...
View ArticleNew Year, Old Issues, Decision Time
Happy New Year!! Sad old issues. I found this blog post sitting in my draft box. I wrote it six months ago when I was preparing to dance at the Las Vegas Salsa Congress. I couldn’t even initially...
View Article
