It’s that time again and it’s been a incredible 8 years to see and hear about the lives that have been saved during the Take A Loved One To The Doctor campaign. It changes just a little bit this year in that now it has officially been extended as a season to take better care of not only our loved ones, but just as importantly ourselves.

For me personally, since turning the big 4-0, I’m starting to see and feel the difference in my body…beginning with getting more than 4 hours of sleep, although I can still function with that amount, it’s amazing how well rested the body and mind feel the next early morning before heading into the station..there’s the excercise and I’ve been encouraged by soooo many wonderful instructors, nutrionists, trainers and the like who have made excercise fun and the people I work out with who listen to the Best R&B and Old School…you’re the best in keeping me motived!

Even in recent conversation with my own Mamma, she recently joined an area YMCA to keep herself in good shape…way to go Mom..you know I’m proud of ya! So in the season of taking better care of ourselves, which I want to continue to do with better eating habits…a slow process, but one I know I can overcome..let’s be each other’s support system, so we ALL can make fewer trips to see the good Ol Doc, or if we have to make that visit we walk away(literally) with better health in mind!

How many times have you seen a couple out on the town where either the man or woman looks uncomfortable with the person they’re with. His pants are showing his rear end or maybe her chest is falling out of her shirt and/or her skirt is way to high. I had a listener email me saying that she’s mad at her man because all he wearsare jeans that hang low off his backside. She went on to say that he’s over 35 years old and doesn’t see a problem with it. Her son wants to copy his father and the dad is OK with it. It’s pretty simple….the way your mate dresses before you get together will be the same way after for the most point. If you except something in the beginning that’s how it might be unless you talk about things. If she loves wearing tight, low cut clothes that probably won’t change over night so get use to it. Be careful what you except in the beginning and try to change later because you might have some problems. Styles are no excuse for sloppy dressing. Your clothes are an outward expression of you. Don’t you think so?

I’m still transitioning my move from Charlotte back to the triad these days. I tell everybody I’m a vagabond, living out of hotels, family and friends places. In the midst of all this, I’m trying my best to eat right and healthy, but what’s good? When you have to go the fast food route, it’s difficult to get 3 good healthy meals in each day. And I’m told you need plenty of fruits and veggies throughout the day as well. I’m good with fruit, but vegetables? I like them cooked at K&W, but what are they cooked in? Here’s a reality to consider. It’s easier and cheaper to eat bad than it is to eat healthy, and that’s not good. But it’s all good cause I’ll be all the way back home real soon!

Video cameras caught several people walking past a good samaritan as he lay dying on the street moments after coming to a woman’s aid as she was being robbed….

We have lost not one but two champions of the Civil Rights Movement in Benjamin Hooks and at the reading of this blog Dr. Dorothy Height who lived 98 years young, along with brother Hooks who was 85 at the time of his passing, and both who dedicated a large majority of their lives in the fight for equality for all men, women and children in our communities.

These losses leave incredible shoes to fill in carrying on not only their legacies, but in taking the lead in ALL communities(not just African-American and other minorities) to ensure equal rights for every human being!And may we not just rely on our local  and national leaders to address the issues(and sadly the continued problems) of race, unemployment, the increased need for voter turnout, etc.,but set the examples of being the BEST community leaders we know how to be within our OWN families, churches, the workplace, and the like!

More importantly and lastly, encourage this generation of young persons who can be the future Benjamin Hooks’ and Dorothy Height’s for their generation and future generations to come, because the flame of equality and equal rights for ALL should never be extinguished!

Does it still go without saying that Winston-Salem will come to Greensboro but Greensboro won’t come to Winston-Salem? That’s how it was when I was growing up in Winston. Greensboro was the cool city, and all Winston had going for it was R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Well, I haven’t been to downtown Greensboro since I’ve been back, but downtown Winston-Salem is looking pretty cool these days. Listen, I firmly believe we are living in the best region in America, and it’ll only become better in our individual communities when we quit claiming turf that we don’t own anyway. The world has become so much smaller in the past 20 years that we can’t afford to cast a negative light  on our neighborhood cities next door. We are The Triad, High Point and Kernersville included. Quit trippin’….we’re all in this together!

 I support movies for us, by us, and about us but this makes the second time I’ve seen this happen in a movie and said when I saw it….STOP!lol  I just saw “Why Did I get Married Too” today and was entertained. To be fair there were some places in the movie that were predictable. Like the part in the movie when Jill Scott’s character asks her ex-husband whom she claims to be over to help her new husband get a job. It happened the same way in “Soul Food” when Nia Long’s character asks her ex to hook up her man with a job. First of all when we saw that you knew exactly what was going to happen. Ladies that was just a movie so please don’t start that in your relationship.lol  As a woman do you really think your ex wouldn’t use that over you if they still wanted you like “Mike” wanted her in the movie? Not to say you can’t be on great terms with the ex but that should be one thing to stay away from. It’s like this…would you want your husband asking his ex wife or girlfriend to help you lose weight or learn how to satisfy him better? I understand why it was in the movie because it’s a hot issue and yes it does happen but it needs to STOP!  I can be a caveman of somethings but come on?????? What do you think? Share a story.

Hi All! 

Marriage.  It’s God’s idea!  So, naturally, He would have the prescription to maintian a successful one, and it is found in His Word.  However, many of us never considered nor counseled with Him before we got married, yet many of us seemingly ask Him to bless the mess we find ourselves in. 

All of us who value “til death do us part” need help, especially me.  So, here you go!  Enjoy the 2 links below!

http://www.perrynoble.com/2010/04/13/10-things-ive-learned-about-marriage-in-ten-years-part-one/

http://www.perrynoble.com/2010/04/14/10-things-ive-learned-about-marriage-in-ten-years-part-two/

Tongues have been wagging at the recent news(and in some circles it seems to be the ‘juciest’) with the  latest tell-all book on Oprah Winfrey and her relationship with former Entertainment Tonight host John Tesh. I’m personally amazed as to how an individual can dig up some dirt that’s over thirty years old..and mind you this book is unauthorized! Although John isn’t holding back on revealing that he and Lady ‘O’ got to know one another on a one-on-one basis.

But why John just up and decided that because he was White and Oprah was Black that the relationship wasn’t going to work out makes me wonder why, even in this present day and age, color is such an issue! Can a person not fall in love or like who they like, simply based on the color of one’s skin? We come in so many shades and colors of ALL races, so is there no longer any truth in the ol’ saying that “love is colorblind!” ….I’m just sayin….

Ok, The Masters is history and while Tiger Woods did not win it, did he manage to win over lost fans? Can he now focus on what he really loves most, the game of golf? Tiger has given the media great conversation and coverage over the past 5 months with the scandal, but the time has really come to put it all in perspective and let it go. Everything he’s done and been accused of doing has all led up to his return to the game of golf, which by the way spiked The Masters tv ratings over 50%! The reception over his return was cordial as expected and then he went about the business of trying to win another green jacket. He didn’t. The Masters is over, the scandal is over, move on. He has, and even though you can see in his face that he’ll never be the Tiger he once was, it’s probably the best thing that could happen to him. I say all of this, and I’m not a golf fan. I’m just a man and in case you forgot, so is Tiger Woods.