Archive for the ‘African American’ Category
Get up and try, try by Sherri Rosen a/k/a Redhead’s Rap
What prompted this blog was Pink's new song "Try". When I heard and saw the entire video I said to myself "yep, that's what we have to do, we have to pick ourselves and try all over again." Trying is one thing, but perhaps making different...
How to be a successful author by Sherri Rosen
How to be a Successful Author So you want to be an author. You carve out hours every day to write. You read ferociously. You edit and rewrite. Heck, you might even quit your day job to write for a season with complete devotion. Finally, after...
Why clump books and people into one category? by Sherri Rosen
Why Clump Books and People into One Category? Why do we lump so many books and people into just one, narrow category when they could be spread out in so many? Doesn't it just rub you the wrong way some times to see a book or a person or...
Save our babies!
Save Our Babies "Evil visited this community today," said Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy with sorrow, reflecting on the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. yesterday morning. The gunman, Adam Lanza, killed his...
Holidays from the heart
It’s that time of year. Christmas carols ring through the malls, holiday candy fills grocery store aisles, jingle bells ring on shop doors, and snow is falling—well, for most of us, snow is not falling. It’s the Season of Christmas,...
Hurricane Sandy Cleanup
Hurricane Sandy Clean-Up Over the last few weeks, we have seen the best in people. From rebuilding a battered New York, to peaceably voting for our president. We have seen rain and then snow, floods. We have been wind-swept. Our utilities and...
Self-Promotion: Why Authors Take Pain Meds
Self-Promotion: Why Authors Take Pain Meds What is Self-Promotion, you ask? In a nutshell: the horrible and humiliating process of sharing your hard work with others, even your friends, only to find out that most of them don’t give a...
You are not alone!!! (also on audio)
http://soundcloud.com/sherri-rosen/you-are-not-alone It’s Sunday. But maybe, like me, you did not wake up to pancakes and groovy music. Maybe, like so many, you woke up just thankful for a moment to catch your breath, a chance to recover from...
Morning Coffee-“Me and Bobby Blow”
It had been a lousy day. The business meeting had not gone well. I was feeling frustrated and angry. I was with a business partner I had to extricate myself from. I wanted to go home and pull the covers over my head. Lately, steps had been a...
