Being Prepared
Over the past year, I have finally come to the full understanding of preparedness. For some people, this knowlede of it comes early on and helps them to speed through like a professional skater in a sparkling costume. But not all of us have glitter trailing on our skirts, many of us have bandages on our knees because we were stubborn and didn't follow instructions. And some of us followed the instructions and still ended up with a gash from falling on the ice face forward. La
Update on My Book
My progress on my Let’s Speak Kiswahili book feels like an elephant trying to fit into a petite bikini. It can get it on once the struggle is complete. I had been thoroughly satisfied thinking that the book was complete, until I gazed upon the proof. For some reason, the Master Page titles had knocked paragraphs of my writing out of alignment. I didn’t understand, the PDF had looked perfectly fine. As a result, I had to push the book’s release to the middle of February. I am
How to Get Things Done: an Achiever’s Guide to Better Time Management (Sixty-Minute Training Series)
TITLE: Getting Things Done: An Achiever’s Guide to Better Time Management SERIES Sixty-Minute Training Series ™ AUTHORS: Paul Kraly and Paula Kalamaras EDITED: National Press Publications – A Division of Rockhurst College Continuing Education Center COPYRIGHT: 1998 National Press Publications Inc. Printed in the United States ISBN 1-55852-012-0 While cleaning off my bookshelf, I had a serendipitous encounter with the book. I was overwhelmed with all of the tasks that I had to
Portraits of African-American Heroes Book Review (From the Bookshelf of Kiarra Lynn Smith)
TITLE: Portraits of African-American Heroes AUTHOR:Tonya Bolden ILLUSTRATOR: Ansel Pitcairn PUBLISHED BY: Scholastic Inc. by Arrangement with Dutton Children’s Books COPYRIGHT: 2003 DESIGN:Richard Amari Printed in the United States ISBN 0-439-68404-8 Portraits of Heroes is a collection of short biographies of Black men and women in United States history. It had been on my bookshelf for several years, but for some odd reason, I never picked it up. I noticed that the author was
2015: The Beginning of Something New
Each year, I browse through my Bucket Book and reflect on all of the goals I have or have not completed. As I read through the goals that I have not accomplished, an expanding orb of empowerment begins to awaken in my soul. Failure may lurk with its haggard face, but I ignore it due to the assurance of the transformation a new year can bring. I have chosen the following resolutions to be my goals for the year 2015. My ambitions are: Do the Month By Month Personal Development
