By Richard Ray: Who could think that six letters could provoke so much fear, angst and turmoil in people’s thoughts and lives as those that are comprised to make up the word “Change”. Sure, change does not have the finality and darkness of its five letter cousin, death, but it still manages to provoke […]
By Richard Ray: Micheal Brown is a relatively common name.In fact if you google the name the first person that pops up is the Mike Brown that was killed by cops in Ferguson, Missouri and who’s death spawned massive protests. However, there is little common about what the 17 year old high school senior […]
By Richard Ray April 4th marks the 50th Anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. The purveyor of non-violence was gunned down on the balcony of a Memphis Hotel in 1968, assassinated by a White Nationalist/Supremacist determined to disrupt the Civil Rights Leader’s quest for a more just and empathetic America. The […]
By Richard Ray: I don’t care how independent you are. I don’t care how talented, intelligent, resourceful or even well off you are. Everyone’s sustained success in life is dependent on the support system we have. Suspecting I was an introvert and unsure of my social capabilities, my mother once tried to relay to […]
By Richard Ray May 19 should be a worldwide holiday. It will never happen in the United States, but the day needs to be more celebrated as the birth day of one of the greatest men in our history. Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little) and later known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz was born on […]
By Richard Ray: Ignorance is a word that is bandied about often. A definition of ‘ignorance” is lack of knowledge or information, but while I am not Merriam-Webster, I do think there is a distinct difference between ignorance and lack of knowledge. I am formally educated. I went to a great high school. I was […]
By: Richard Ray I don’t care how self-assured and confident you are, we all seek some level of affirmation in our lives. I am not talking about the extreme petulant and needy (#Trump) who are insecure and in need of incessant assurance. I am talking about the normal human nature that occasionally needs support, […]
By Richard Ray: Hope rings eternal at the start of every new year. Who am I to extinguish anyone’s optimism? I am hope and optimism’s biggest fan. I have just never understood why people save it all for January 1st. The new years brings promises of renewed diets, renewed gym visits and health regimes. […]
By Richard Ray: Unless you are extremely sick or infirmed, every day that you are blessed to wake up is an opportunity to start anew. New beginnings are afforded to us every day. That is the absolute beauty of life. No matter how hard life is… no matter how arduous our journey’s or the […]
By Richard Ray: The CEO and one of the founders of Golden Krust, a seemingly successful restaurant chain with over 120 stores (mostly franchises) in 9 states and products sold in groceries stores in over 30 states, died. Lowell Hawthorne, a Jamaican immigrant, who worked as a NYPD accountant for nine years before starting […]
