Nelson Mandela once said; Our world is not divided by race, color, gender, or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender, or religion.
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June 12, 2023
Lieutenant General Alonzo Earl Short, Jr.
June 11, 2023
JULY 4, 2018, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: AUSTIN HSU Lieutenant General Short, Jr. was at one point one of the highest-ranking African American officers on active duty in the United States Army. Short’s responsibilities during his service included managing the communications systems between the White House and various military branches. Short was born in Greenville, North Carolina although the precise date […]
Lieutenant General Alonzo Earl Short, Jr.
ABOUT MY FATHER (2023) – My rating 7.5/10
June 11, 2023
About My Father is a comedy directed by Laura Terruso from a screenplay by Sebastian Maniscalco and Austen Earl. The film actually stars Maniscalco and is loosely based on his life and his relationship with his father.
The trailers for this movie seemed very funny. Unfortunately, the funniest lines were in the trailers. About My Father was, in a word, cute.
Sebastian (Sebastian Maniscalco) shares with his traditional Italian immigrant father Salvo (Robert De Niro) his plan to propose to his American girlfriend Ellie (Leslie Bibb). Since Sebastian would like to present Ellie with his deceased grandmother’s ring, Salvo holds the ring hostage and insists on accompanying Sebastian, Ellie, and her parents Bill (David Rasche) and Tigger (Kim Cattrall) for a weekend holiday. There are enormous differences between their two cultures and the couple have nothing in common, so Salvo expects the relationship will end before it begins.
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Retired Lieutenant General John D. Hopper
June 11, 2023
JULY 1, 2018, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: BRIAN FARTHING Retired Lieutenant. General John D. Hopper was born in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1947. He attended Lyndon McKinley high school in Columbus, Ohio and entered the Air Force Academy in 1965. In high school, Hopper was an avid high school athlete, involved in basketball and track, but at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, he failed to make […]
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I’m a Couples Therapist. Something New Is Happening in Relationships.
June 11, 2023
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One afternoon in 2020, early in the pandemic, I met Syl’violet and Matthew for a virtual session. Young, idealistic, deeply in love, they were also prone to dramatic fights. In this session, Syl’violet, a vivacious essayist and spoken-word poet, was trying to describe the ways she felt Matthew, a measured medical student, was trying to control her, in this case by trying to dissuade her from buying a slushy. He thought they should keep to a tight budget until after he became a doctor and achieved financial stability. Then she could have “all the slushies you want later.” Syl’violet found his reasoning maddening, especially since he seemed to imply she was reckless.
On the face of it, the fight seemed insignificant, but then an exchange took place that changed the tenor of the argument, connecting us to the underlying roots of the issue. “I have trouble envisioning that finish line,” Syl’violet exclaimed, tearing up, “because the plan that he’s talking about? My life has always been: The plan never works. You can do all the right things, you can obey all the right rules and get [expletive].” For a moment, Matthew continued to try to reason with her and convince her of his sound financial strategy. “I know that sounds very conceited, cocky,” he said, to which Syl’violet whipped back: “No! It sounds privileged!” She described her family’s relationship to money; they’d had nothing but trauma for generations. Syl’violet resented Matthew’s pride in his plan. “A privileged setting gave you access to all these things,” she said. “You’re taking ownership over it like, ‘I did it according to plan,’ as if, like, if other people did it according to plan, it would work out.”
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Pride
June 11, 2023
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Here’s a Way to Make Sure You Actually Read the Books You Buy
June 11, 2023
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Do you have a massive TBR (“to be read”) pile? You’re not alone. There are so many great books out there, and so little time to read them. But I’ve managed to tame my TBR pile with a simple shift in mindset—and this trick also works for video games, craft supplies, and anything else that tends to pile up while it waits its turn.
The problem with all of these items is that they are quick to purchase, but take a long time to use. You can add a game to your Steam collection in minutes, but chances are most will take you 20 hours or more to play. (Howlongtobeat.com says Tears of the Kingdom takes 52 hours for the main story alone.)
How many more games will you impulse-buy before you’ve finished that one? How many skeins of yarn will you snap up (they were on sale! And so soft!) before you’ve finished the sweater you’re currently knitting? It’s the same problem as the TBR pile, really. And I promise, there is a solution.
Only one can be next
My “aha” moment was when I realized that each book I read makes me want to read a bunch more books. Books from that book’s bibliography, books that cover topics that my current book only briefly hinted at, books of entirely different genres that I can’t read until I finish this one, but I’m getting major FOMO just thinking about them. Let’s say I add an average of five books to the TBR pile for each book I finish.
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As a Therapist, I Know What’s Breaking Couples Up
June 11, 2023
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I’ve been doing couples and family therapy for over twenty-five years. I like it more than individual counseling because you see the interplay and dynamic between people. My clients mainly fall into two buckets: couples with kids under five and couples whose youngest child has just left home.
The biggest change I’ve seen in relationships is the damn smartphone: texting, internet, instant communication. Smartphones have caused more upheaval than anything I’ve seen in my career. We’ve normalized them being intrusive and taking precedence when people are lying in bed, playing Wordle, or scrolling through TikTok rather than talking to each other. And we’ve gotten used to communication being instantaneous when a healthy relationship requires you to slow down and listen to each other. But our lives don’t really allow for that; especially if you have young children, it’s often go, go, go.
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, I saw an immediate plummet in the demand for counseling as many people went into survival mode. A lot of people can go into emergency mode and do well with one another. But as time went on, people realized the pandemic was going to last much longer. What I saw was a pressure cooker. Many existing issues were in stasis as people hunkered down, and meanwhile, more things were being stuffed into the pot. This put more pressure on families. Two years into the pandemic, something shifted. That’s when I was getting inundated with people who were in crisis and on the brink of divorce.
In the next few years, I think, we’ll see the aftershock of the pandemic on couples. I think it’ll be coming in the next year or two, maybe three, especially for couples with younger kids who lost time in school, or people who lost their jobs or had to start new careers. Will the stress levels just keep going up with these couples until they break?
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How relationships come to an end and the scourge of the smartphone
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Lieutenant General James Reginald Hall, Jr.
June 10, 2023
FEBRUARY 24, 2018, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: CHEYENNE FOREMAN Lieutenant General James Reginald Hall, Jr. was born in Anniston, Alabama in 1937. He pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, studying political science. James also pursued a second degree in public administration, from Shippensburg College in Pennsylvania. Following graduation in 1957, Hall joined the United States Army. Hall had basic […]
Lieutenant General James Reginald Hall, Jr.
Dr. David Satcher (1941- )
June 10, 2023
JANUARY 14, 2018, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: DWAYNE MACK David Satcher, physician, educator, and administrator, was born in Anniston, Alabama, on March 2, 1941 to Wilmer and Anne Satcher. In 1963 Satcher graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned a M.D. and Ph.D. in cytogenetics from Case Western Reserve University in 1970. In 1979 Satcher became a professor and later chair of […]
Dr. David Satcher (1941- )
