tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:36:25 +0000African Americanchildhood memoriesobligationsTWUGrievingplaying gamesfavorsprideblackgraduationfadeathBusiness plan templateJoplincriticsmental healthDemocratsgrad schoolsingle mothersmark johnsonHighway 71Sundaydepressionsbraggingangerfather's daymotherboxingpresidential electionentrepreneurspastfuturepoliticsyoung adult mencollegemusicfatherhoodmotherly loveolderCensusCasey'snephewpayback6 p.m.. Interstate 44suicideflyweightyard workbaby boomersKauffman foundationBarack ObamaraceMichael Jacksonmarc johnsonblack businessesPersonal comments by Sharon Egiebor, founder of Egiebor Expressions and a veteran journalist.http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)Blogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-3674532132329929817Tue, 24 May 2011 16:41:00 +00002011-05-24T12:14:43.492-05:00SundayHighway 716 p.m.. Interstate 44faJoplinCasey's Small red car losts its windows in storm. Traveling south on Highway 71heading toward Joplin, Mo., Sunday afternoon, we saw a small, black sports car with police siren's gaining ground behind us. "Are you speeding?" "No, I've been at the limit for a long time now." "The car up ahead was not speeding either." Five minutes later, a gold pick-up or SUV truck, marked as a Cass County Sheriff's http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2011/05/joplin-tornado-experience-matter-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-4304504756502742345Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:08:00 +00002011-02-09T22:10:27.666-06:00entrepreneursCensusblack businessesKauffman foundationAfrican Americanbaby boomersolderTwo reports released this week offer some encouragement to African Americans and Baby Boomers who are struggling to find income in these recessionary times. Layoffs and the loss of income from 401K and other retirement plans that were Wall Street-dependant seemed to hit the Boomers especially hard with 39 percent of men and 18 percent of women aged 51 to 60 less likely to get hired each month http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2011/02/baby-boomers-and-african-americans-are.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-7788706158054193108Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:45:00 +00002010-04-08T15:45:13.586-05:00paybackobligationsyard worksingle mothersmotherly lovefavorsWow....My son is really showing his motherly love lately. For Valentine's Day he upgraded my cellphone and has agreed to pay for the service. When I returned from New York, where I spent two weeks handling my deceased cousin's affair, my house looked like it was vacant. Weeds had sprouted throughout, trash was caught in bushes and these pesky door-to-door people had left flyers, cards and notes.http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2010/04/big-payback.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-4598916925993251787Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:17:00 +00002010-04-08T14:17:10.132-05:00playing games Made with My Cool Signs.Net This is my new sign using flickr.com...way cool. What do you think?http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-sign-with-my-name.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-7711520718940115211Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:31:00 +00002009-12-23T12:31:57.107-06:00criticsBarack ObamaAfrican Americanpresidential election By Donna E. Scott When I first read Obamas defense to his black critics I thought, “The nerve of this guy!” He started talking about all the support he did have and somehow the questioner’s figures were not correct. He noted more blacks in Hollywood support him than those who do not. He talked about how he was improving the lives of teachers. In fact, it sounded like a rehash of Reagan's risinghttp://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2009/12/nerve-another-piece-on-obama.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-6103146258929970447Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:48:00 +00002009-08-11T23:50:59.666-05:00Business plan templateClick to> > downloadhttp://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-write-business-plan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-6126536923208903955Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:16:00 +00002009-07-13T16:37:57.544-05:00fatherhoodsingle mothersyoung adult menfather's dayangerFather’s Day never gets the attention of Mother’s Day.There are probably dozens of reasons, including the fact that women out live men, more women are single parents, and possibly mother’s make a bigger stink out of getting their due.I know in my circle, Father’s Day gets short shrift because children raised by single mothers have no need to celebrate. The day is a mixture of pain and bad http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2009/07/single-mothers-and-fathers-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-7278165845866421422Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:47:00 +00002009-06-26T17:47:17.057-05:00deathmusicMichael Jacksonchildhood memoriesUpon hearing the news of Michael Jackson’s death on Thursday, the song “ABC, 123” kept playing in my head.Gone are the controversies over Michael Jackson’s nose job, skin color and allegations of sexual improprieties. I am dancing in the living room in front of my parent’s black and white television. The Jackson Five are on the “Ed Sullivan Show” and for the first time, I see a child that looks http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2009/06/michael-jackson-man-and-music.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-7565547927101824043Tue, 05 May 2009 15:50:00 +00002009-05-05T12:13:58.829-05:00mark johnsonboxingmarc johnsonflyweightnephewI stopped to visit with a neighbor who has a reputation for training boxers. A great-nephew is interested in the career.Marc Johnson is the father of Mark “Too Sharp” Johnson. Super Flyweight Boxer and the first African American to win the World Flyweight Title. In the Oct. 14, 1996 issue of Jet (which by the way is waiting for African Americans to save it from financial difficulty), Johnson http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2009/05/boxing-grandmothers-and-marine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-8004322967500963288Tue, 05 May 2009 15:17:00 +00002009-05-05T10:50:12.418-05:00graduationTWUpastgrad schoolfutureWe called ourselves "The TWU Power Girls" in January for the final group of our final class for the Texas Woman's University's EMBA program. The name was apt: it took all of our power to execute the 3-year strategic plan for an Oak Cliff business.We did well. The professor is grading the project this week. For two nights after the presentation, I was still jumping in my sleep, thinking of all thehttp://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2009/05/finishing-coursework-for-mba.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-3555757488271463608Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:58:00 +00002008-06-09T12:55:02.992-05:00prideracepresidential electionpoliticsDemocratsYou can’t steal my joy. Barack Hussein Obama is the Democratic nominee for president of the United States of America. It sounds almost unbelievable. Now, when we, as African Americans, tell our children that you could grow up to be president one day, it will be true. In this age, of subtle and not so subtle racism, a man of mixed-race parentage and immigrant family history is THE http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2008/06/you-cant-steal-my-joy-obama-as.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-7383472409465234344Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:11:00 +00002008-03-19T14:20:23.852-05:00Barack Obamablackpresidential electionSee Barack Obama speak on this issue.As an African American whose education from grade school through university came from predominantly Caucasian schools, I may understand the nature of Sen. Obama’s relationship with Rev. Wright. More specifically, I may be able to answer Mr. David Broder’s question from Sunday’s Meet the Press. He asked, “What was it about Reverend Wright that attracted Obama,http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2008/03/barack-obama-and-his-pastor-by-camille.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-6122008947878724699Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:19:00 +00002008-03-14T11:19:58.151-05:00mental healthAfrican AmericandepressionssuicideDALLAS -- My heart goes out to the family of Rufus and Lynn Flint-Shaw, who died Monday (March 10) in a suicide pact. I can only imagine how much pain they both must have been in when Rufus took a gun and shot his wife in the back of the head and then killed himself. The couple called their 21-year-old son at college and told him of their plans.Mr. Shaw, an outspoken columnist for Elite News, http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2008/03/it-should-not-have-ended-in-suicide.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-2271719842596513234Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:15:00 +00002007-12-10T23:05:58.340-06:00graduationcollegebraggingAfrican AmericanmotherI’m sure I am no different than any other proud parent watching her child march across the stage to obtain a college degree. But as my mother used to say, I’m just passing on the truth. It’s not bragging, you see, when you shout from the roof top that your child has done well. He is now among the 35 percent of African American males who graduate from college. It’s not bragging when you can say, http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2007/12/celebrating-graduation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-216234510170660261Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:15:00 +00002007-08-09T17:20:20.382-05:00It was to be another one of those fast trips that we make from Dallas, Texas to Kansas City, Mo., to visit with family. These are not simple pleasure visits. Each one comes with landmines along the way. Who you visit, whose house you sleep at, what you say to a spouse or the passing comment on home décor can be explosive. With the majority of my large family living in Kansas City, the roadhttp://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2007/08/experiencing-god.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-214621445135404883Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:57:00 +00002007-03-26T18:52:16.128-05:00GrievingDealing with death and familyMy mother died in December after a short stint in the hospital.I'm not sure how to cry or when to cry or what to cry for - except that I'll miss her in ways that are almost undescribeable.Lester Patterson was a very loving, generous woman who unfortunately created in other people an unhealthy dependency on her. While she constantly preached that we should depend on http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2007/01/grieving-for-my-mother.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-115913922419818124Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:07:00 +00002007-03-26T18:34:05.202-05:00http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2006/09/this-is-audio-post-click-to-play.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-113597058863644653Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:47:00 +00002006-09-24T17:51:16.770-05:00Wow, can you believe it is the end of 2005? I've finished my first year in business and my third year as an empty-nester.It has been a good year -- of course with lots of ups and downs. This is the first time in decades I can honestly say this. I think it has more to do with age and perspective, rather than with what happened.The good things, Egiebor Expressions juggled several contracts this http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2005/12/ending-2005.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-113377705704354392Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:00:00 +00002005-12-05T04:04:17.056-06:00I've been on the continent of Southern Africa for more than a week now.As I type, my trip is coming to a close. I wanted so much to write every day about all the things and people I saw. But I was too exhausted and on too tight of a schedule.I promised most of you that you could log on to egieborexpressions.com and read these post. I did create the web site, got my e-mail started, but again, not http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2005/12/southern-africa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-111760936319591502Wed, 01 Jun 2005 07:02:00 +00002005-06-01T02:02:43.196-05:00Bjay and Valerie http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2005/06/bjay-and-valerie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-111760918061751357Wed, 01 Jun 2005 06:59:00 +00002005-06-01T01:59:40.630-05:00Ebony C. Brown's High School Graduation http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2005/05/ebony-c.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-111618866313481967Sun, 15 May 2005 20:22:00 +00002007-08-09T17:21:10.715-05:00Egiebor Expressions, established in 1993, is an award-winning creative writing and media/public relations company. It offers management consulting to help the client clearly identify its message, provides excellent content for a range of documents, including news articles and web sites, and connects the client’s message to its targeted audience. Staff consists of experienced and talented writers,http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2005/05/about-egiebor-expressions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-111402018963703017Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:03:00 +00002005-04-20T13:03:09.636-05:00Sharon Egiebor http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2005/04/sharon-egiebor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-111401972601682885Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:55:00 +00002005-04-20T12:55:26.016-05:00Marcus Egiebor http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2005/04/marcus-egiebor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10900584.post-110865957988642046Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:56:00 +00002005-02-17T10:59:39.893-06:00Being Texan and American in Bangkok and BeijingBy SHARON EGIEBOREgiebor ExpressionsIt was day two of a three-day swing through Beijing China.The sun was high in the sky and sweat was falling from my brow.I had just climbed several sets of marble steps, pushed my way through throngs of rural Chinese and Koreans tourists so I could peer through dirty-glass windows. Beyond the glass was the bedroom http://egieborexpressions.blogspot.com/2005/02/sharon-in-bangkok-thailand.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Egiebor Expressions)0