Recently, I read the following statement in a workplace compliance document: "If you wouldn't say it in front of your spouse, a child or a minority, ... then it probably shouldn't be said" ... I agree, but why would anyone need to tell your "grown behind" that in the first place? Do you need someone to monitor or censor your behavior at work, or anyplace else for that matter? Sadly some of us do.

Some people unfortunately never received any home training, and by the time they got old enough to go to school, they got on people's nerves there too, ... (you know who you are...) and due to that fact --- you didn't receive a whole lotta' instruction there either. Once the public school system got rid of them, "Society" had to deal with them, and "society" can only do so much. Things that people dared not do years ago, are commonplace now... drinking and partying with our kids... robbing and beating up elderly people... accepting money from a tenant in a property you know you are not making payments on... oh, and let's not forget that trend a couple of years ago where pregnant women were wearing "belly tops" ... UUUUGGGGHHH!!! That was not cute then, nor will it ever be - let's hope that one is never recycled ... Oh, I'm sorry - (You're probably wondering what this has to do with anything ??? - nothing... it's just something I happened to think about.)

Some of us are entirely different people at work and other social settings than we are at home. Even though you should never put anything past a person, some of us would "keel over and die" if we knew what our loved ones - kids, friends and spouses, did when out of our sight, and don't think for a minute that people won't derive a twisted pleasure out of making sure you eventually know about it and are affected by it, even though that same individual may have participated and laughed and grinned the whole time. They may even show "concern" ... saying they don't want to see you "hurt" when bringing it to your awareness - right? Wrong. They have an agenda, "Boo" ... Just remember that people who "bring bones, carry them" ... but you know that already. The simplest way to avoid being put into compromising positions or accused of something is to live by the "Golden Rule" ... "do unto others, as you would have done unto you"... you really never know "who knows whom" so always conduct yourself in a way that no one can ever doubt your character or your "version" of any events you may have been involved in.

So while I never know who'll read this, or if they think I'm crazy and don't care... I wouldn't be who I am if I didn't pass this on. I resolved once I started this venture to somehow make it a positive endeavor, cause "what folks don't know - can hurt them!" ... This is my little corner of the universe, and "I gotta do what I gotta do" ... while I have this forum, and this opportunity - especially for the young "diva's" in training! Peace be with you all, and forgive ya' girl for the lapse at times in posting... if you only knew all that I've got my hands into right now...