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Are you LONELY Tonight?

Be fearless.  You are never alone. Joshua 1:9 Health on track?  Check. Active social life with your Girl Squad?  Check. Professional career on track?  Check. Financially healthy; minimal debt?  Check. Family doing well?  Check. Faithful in your relationship with Christ?  Check. Check. Yet, when you get home at night the silence greets you more profoundlyContinue reading “Are you LONELY Tonight?“

7 Types of People You Need in Your Life

We draw each other closer to God.  We draw each other closer to others. We help each other become the real person God created us to be. Nathaniel Clay Filer YES…my favorite season is here.  I absolutely adore the Fall season. Aside from the obvious weather changes, it’s the time I store the light summerContinue reading “7 Types of People You Need in Your Life“

Back to School or Back to Learning. Are We READY?

The opening of schools this month — including the Los Angeles Unified School District— is unfolding under the shadow of the surging Delta variant, supplanting much of the joy and relief families anticipated with new worries about masks, positive coronavirus tests, illness, vaccines, quarantines, and outbreaks. Howard Blume, Karen Garcia, Amina Khan, Colleen Shalby –Continue reading “Back to School or Back to Learning. Are We READY?”

TIRED of being Tired

I’m exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel. Me and every woman I have talked to this week I was in my teens, when I first heard a woman say in irritation mode, “Girl, I am just tired of being tired!”  I was living in Queens, NY at the time and one ofContinue reading “TIRED of being Tired”

Choices and HOW to make them?

A Time for Everything – Ecclesiastes 3 (NLT) 3 For everything there is a season,    a time for every activity under heaven.2 A time to be born and a time to die.    A time to plant and a time to harvest.3 A time to kill and a time to heal.    A time to tear down and a time to build up.4 AContinue reading “Choices and HOW to make them?”

You can take THIS job and shove it!

Take this job and shove itI ain’t working here no more. Johnny Paycheck ; “Take This Job and Shove It” is a 1977 country music song written by David Allan Coe and popularized by Johnny Paycheck, about the bitterness of a man who has worked long and hard with no apparent reward. I remember my first job that I gotContinue reading “You can take THIS job and shove it!”

A DEDICATION To Brandi

Sometimes God puts you in places ALONE because He needs you to realize you do NOT need anybody but HIM! Auntie Linda This weekend my niece, Brandi is celebrating her 30th birthday.  Whew…time flies!  This post is dedicated to her.  And to all those 30 year old’s out there…this is for you  too! I clearlyContinue reading “A DEDICATION To Brandi”

I Desire to WANT You!

For many women (and shall I say it…men too) they want to desire and be desired.  They rarely desire to want and be wanted. That would expose their sweet spot. ME As I was taking a Vegan Enchilada dish out of the oven, I heard my dear Seester exclaim, “I have to hurry up andContinue reading “I Desire to WANT You!”

Don’t Let Money STOP You

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. Dave Ramsey My name is Linda and I am a recovering “Wanter of More”.  Yes…you heard me right. More energy to enjoy the sun. More rest in my cushiony bed.  More hugs from family and friends. More cocktails withContinue reading “Don’t Let Money STOP You”