The debate between mutual fund investing — actively managed fund — and index fund investing — funds that track broad market indexes — is decades old. According to Vanguard and S&P Dow Jones Indices, the index funds have historically outperformed mutual funds in every investment category since 1871. If you’re not a savvy investor and […]

All Saints Day vs Halloween 1 John 2:15 “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” In the month of October, many celebrate Halloween. Straddling the line between fall and winter and life and death, Halloween […]

Casting or Carrying Are you casting or carrying? Are you casting your cares on God or are you carrying them yourself? If you’ve been feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders lately, you’ve answered the question. As adults we tend to believe if there is a need within our sphere of influence (family, […]

Reigning Reds This autumn season, rich and bold sultry reds are everywhere. Not just any red, deep tones of merlots, burgundy, and ruby reds are this season’s’ must have. What’s the secret ingredient to this intense color depth? The undertones! Blues, purples, and for those whose skin tone flatters by more warm colors let’s visit […]

Your wait for this year’s fall collection has come to an end! 2017’s fall is welcoming traditional trends. The power-packed runways have finally given the gorgeous ideas for the fall wearables. This year’s fall trend is based more on the comfortable outgoing draperies rather than indoor fancy cuts. Some of the spring and summer trends […]

Dear Ladies ~ Is it just me? Am I the only one? Are there any other women offended by the label, baby mama? No matter how our children came to be, we are not baby mamas. We are mothers. The connotation associated with baby mama is negative and feeds into a stereotype placed upon us […]

Child Support Notice? Don’t Panic; Prepare Yourself The letter comes in the mail and you freak out. You’ve been hit with a notice that a child support case has been filed by your ex-girlfriend, ex-wife, or that woman you slept with during a one-night stand a year ago. No matter who the woman is, things […]

On July 21, 2017, Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci was hired as President Donald J. Trump’s White House Director of Communications. Sean Spicer had been the acting Director since the resignation of Michael Dubke on June 2. Harvard-educated Scaramucci was the vice president and chief strategy officer for the U.S. Import-Export Bank at the time he […]

Not long ago, I started reading a book about a family dealing with many issues. Each member of the family had their own significant challenge: divorce, physical limitations caused by an accident, and the onset of Alzheimer’s. Their plates were full, their emotions were overloaded, and none of them seemed to recognize the fact the […]

Shawn-Ta Wilson The pandemic has many of us feeling like Bill Murray’s character Phil in the movie Groundhog Day. We wake up and the new day seems to be a carbon copy of the one before. Our activities have become limited and all too familiar at the break of dawn. The past two mornings I […]

Commentary: The State Of Our Schools Today Distractions, they are rampant. How much is academic learning really taking place in our schools with all the distractions our children and their teachers encounter each day? There are as many shelter-in-place drills as awards ceremonies. That’s a problem. It seems the children are taught their ABCs according […]

by Amber Singletary I am so excited to be bring you beauty tips again! This month brings awareness to a very important issue that many women secretly have unfortunately experienced. In the United States alone there are on average 89,000 rapes reported annually. In an effort to creat a heightened awareness to rape, we got […]

Ignite Ambition How women can inspire other women (Family Features) Having “it all” is a concept women have discussed and aspired to attain for nearly 40 years. Still, the conversation continues because no one has determined what having it all actually means. A first-of-its-kind social experiment dug deeper into the choices women make in life […]

Just A Though Book Review Overview Have you ever wanted something so badly that you were willing to do anything for it?  You would lie, cheat and steal?  You would even entertain selling your soul to the highest bidder.  In Gerald C. Anderson, Sr’s, most thought-provoking short novel yet, The Lawyer, gives you a glimpse […]