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Ten Easy to Follow Rules for a Happy Life as a Fifty-Year-Old

Fifty year olds have a good chance of living another forty years. This is an assumption that can be a fact if certain life rules are applied. There are simple and free things you can do to increase the likelihood that you will live into your nineties. What if the secret to living long and… Read More »

The Shocking Truth about Survival Jobs for Artists

Although I have been a performance artist for more than twenty years, I have yet to become a household name or limit myself to only performing for money or supporting myself as an artist. Like so many of my friends, I was lead to believe that paying dues ( no health insurance, money for basic… Read More »

Why Your Job is Making You Fat Part 2

At a recent meeting and in couple’s counselling all over the world, the same tired tune is played. We don’t communicate. When I recently heard this statement, I gently offered the insight that no we don’t have a communication issue; we have an accountability issue. So much of what passes for communication in the work… Read More »

How I Will Live To 150 And You Can Too!

Have you ever heard news so shocking that you stop breathing? Have you ever been told you only have two options: change or die? Two weeks before I turned 52, I was given a double shock about my health. With stress as a constant companion and a sky high blood pressure reading, it was either… Read More »

How to Survive a Plague, Reinvent Yourself and Create a Life that Makes You Insanely Happy

This is society’s current wish, right? Many of us have had to take a good look at our lives and then admit, “this ain’t it!” Most of us crave reinvention and the ability to restart our lives. Many of us long to leave the lives we’ve built. The same lives that keep us trapped. Aren’t… Read More »

My Love Letter To All The Wonderful Plant Based Black Folks I Met During Covid

Greetings all, It has been one solid year of eating like I got some sense. One year ago, my doctor spit out an awful diagnosis. High Blood Pressure. Stroke adjacent. Daily Pills. After being pissed off and eating my through a pandemic for five months, I made a decision. I would not be a statistic… Read More »

No Mas Caca Day Four

Recently, I’ve decided to shine. Shine! Shine some more. Then move as if I’m already living in a victory. This sounds if I’ve been living in California too long. Maybe this is true. What if this way of thinking and being is long overdue? It has a name… Being Unreasonable. Part of being unreasonable is… Read More »

No Mas Caca: Day Three

My first thought when someone says “be reasonable” is always “f%ck you”. However, when asked what my determination would be for a spiritual group, I chose to clean up the language and go for a more sedate- STOP BEING REASONABLE!!! All around the world things go on that seem very unreasonable and we adjust and… Read More »