Heavy Mentalist

Pictures of my children playing in snow last night.

Contrast the picture below (see how high the snow is beside my heating thingy? Then look at how high the snow is beside it in the above photo.) It snowed a lot last night. A lot for here, anyway.

I love snow! I’ll probably go out again sometime later today and take more pictures.I took these with a cell phone, hence the err…spectacular quality, lol.

Wow, great concept.

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Wow I just head the news. Well I heard about Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry being in a car accident yesterday but at the time his death was still a rumor that has now been confirmed.

Chris Henry reportedly fell out of a truck during a domestic dispute with his girlfriend yesterday in Charlotte, NC. RIP Chris Henry.

UDATE 1:34 PM | Chris Henry’s girlfriend has been identified as Loleini Tonga. The Huffington Post released her photo and information about her Mypspace profile today.

As some of you know, this has been a tumultuous year for me. I’m so happy to see another birthday I just can’t stand it! Thank you Jesus! Thank you Lord!

I don’t let my religious side out much on this blog, maybe I should but I just haven’t but yes I am a devout Christian, as hard as it is for my husband to believe. Before my experience in the hospital earlier this year, I was an atheist. He still is.

Something I experienced in the hospital changed me…and my life. It was profound. I haven’t spoken about it yet but I will very soon. It was deep yall. Probably why I haven’t blogged about it yet…I’m still shaken up by it.

But anyway I blogged about my birthday and who else shares the same birthday with me, including my man Manny Pacquiao here on heavymentalist.com. There’s some rumors of a free mixtape of 80s funk and soul classics in that post too, lol.

BTW if you’ve ever found yourself wondering, “Hmmm…I wonder what happened on my birthday?” you can visit Dates in History to find out.  Continue reading...

Happy Birthday to me…and Manny Pacquiao! Wow what good fortune to have the same birthday as my favorite pugilist.

I won’t be doing much celebrating as I’m working on stories all day today, but I’ll have a special CD on rotation that puts me in a party mood and you can download it here on HeavyMentalist.com for a limited time for free! Details on downloading the CD below.

Some other cool people share December 17 for their birthday too, like these folks:

Chris Matthews

Eddie Kendricks

Ernie Hudson

Bob Guccione

Milla Jovovich

William Safire, RIP

and more!

If you’re into astrology, this page has my chart for the day (down in the lower left sidebar). I have no idea what that chart means but it looks cool, I guess. Feel free to break it down for me if you are into astrology.

Even though I don’t know much about astrology I must say this astrological bio of people born on December 17 hits pretty damn close to home!  Continue reading...

Tisha Murphy succumbed to breast cancer this week, leaving husband Charlie Murphy a single father of their three children.

Charlie Murphy, the older brother of Eddie Murphy is best known for his role recurring role on the Chappelle Show, though he’s also had parts in several movies mostly written and marketed for an African-American audience.

Although he’s lesser known than his little brother, Charlie Murphy is hella funny and is currently carrying the stand up comic mantle while his brother focuses on film projects like Norbit.

Breast cancer continues to be the most diagnosed cancer for women nationwide, and is especially dangerous for African-American women. According to Netwellness.org:

African American women are more likely than white women to be diagnosed at later stages of the disease and are more likely to die from it.

Cancer has touched my family, with one of my aunts having had a breast removed due to breast cancer, and another aunt dying from cervical cancer.  Continue reading...

Soon. I’m trying to figure out some things with this blog, and have had to basically start over and input all of my blog elements back in one by one.

I really love blogging…just wish there wasn’t so much about it that requires so much technical ability…sighhhhhh.

I’d like to make money by blogging some day too…which is a total 180 from the reason I started this blog, but now I figure if I’m going to devote one to two, and sometimes three or more hours a day to writing, researching and promoting blog posts I might as well make some change doing it. Wouldn’t you?