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Bloggers Corner: Living the Dream Larger Than Life, Dui Jarrod

Bloggers Corner: Living the Dream Larger Than Life, Dui Jarrod

This week, Living the Dream Larger than Life speaks to Dui Jarrod. Dui Jarrod is a film producer and director, known for Lesson Before Love (2011), My Angel (2008) and Nothing More, Nothing Less (2008).

Vaccines-- Panacea or Poison?

Are vaccines causing more diseases than they cure? I had my immunization shots as a child, so I didn't think too much to have my own child immunized shortly after birth and at her following doctor's appointments.

Blogger's Corner: Week 8 of Year-Long Hand-Lettering Project - Langston Hughes - "Hold Fast To Dreams...."

At the beginning of 2014, I started a weekly, year-long hand-lettering project. The name of the project is "Pay Attention To Your Dreams," and that was also the name of the first piece I illustrated.
Blogger's Corner: Our Businesses Don't Have To Fail

Blogger's Corner: Our Businesses Don't Have To Fail

As a small business owner in Central Brooklyn, failure is always on my mind. I can never get it out, it is always there. Like a first-time parent, I constantly worry.

Blogger's Corner: Community Organizations Launch Website to recognize Youth Lost to Gun Violence in Central Brooklyn Through Technology and Meditation

DIVAS for Social Justice and The Awake Youth Project @ Brooklyn Zen Center and Central Brooklyn Organizing for Action have launched a website to recognize youth who have been lost to gun violence.
Blogger's Corner: SURVIVING VALENTINE'S DAY

Blogger's Corner: SURVIVING VALENTINE'S DAY

VALENTINE'S DAY INVASION Neither Polar Vortex, Sochi Olympics or NY Fashion Week can stop it, so it's coming whether you like it or not and this year it coincides with the Presidents Day weekend, which means an extra day to make the magic last.

Blogger's Corner: Postpartum Hair Loss

I dread washing my hair! After detangling and washing my hair, I look around on the floor at all of the hair that has shed and pull the hair out of the drain and I swear I there is enough to donate to two small children.

Blogger's Corner: Noreen Sumpter’s LIVING THE DREAM LARGER THAN LIFE: Keko Heinswheeler

It's not the 60s and it's not the Beatles era, but there seems to be an invasion of Brits: "The British are coming, the British are coming!" through every town. "And this time it is not Paul Revere.
Blogger's Corner: S.A.S. Ain't Nothing To Muck With

Blogger's Corner: S.A.S. Ain't Nothing To Muck With

P retty much since the early aughts, which is Internet speak for the decade that started right after Y2K, early February has ushered in a most heinous situation.
Blogger's Corner: Man that slapped toddler on plane sentenced to prison

Blogger's Corner: Man that slapped toddler on plane sentenced to prison

Jessica and Jonah Bennett victims of airplane incident "Shut that [N-word] baby up!" Those were the words that Joe Rickey Hundley spewed at Jessica Bennett and her 19-month-old son Jonah right before he slapped Jonah, leaving a scratch under his litt