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Brooke

If you are mean it's because you think your God is mean.

About Me

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I enjoy being me. I love learning from others. I think life is a continual lesson, so I am always listening and looking for God's direction. I find it everywhere and in everything.

Check me out at:www.urbanbazaar.etsy.com or
http://jewelryrockstar.blogspot.com

My Interests

I love to make jewelry, I also make bath and body products. I am very crafty! I love to cook, but hate to clean. I 've written a book called Love's Gumbo. In it I talk about women loving themselves, their families, and their partners. Coming to you real soon!

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I'd like to meet:

Anyone interesting, in control of her life, and living out her dreams!

Music:


Jaguar Wright, Mary J. Blige, Talib Kweli, Amel Larrieux, Bilal, Jill Scott, Joi, Saul WIlliams (the poet), Erykah Badu, Andre 3000, Luther Vandross, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Dinah Washington, Shareefa, Rahsaan Patterson, Leela James, Carmen McRae, Marvin Gaye, Raheem DaVaughn, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Mary Mary, Richard Smallwood, Montrel Darrett, Milton Brunson, Walter Hawkins & Family, Jubilant Sykes, Beyonce, Dead Prez, Eric B. & Rakim

Movies:

Brother, Where Art Thou? Love Jones, Love & Basketball, Idlewild, New Jack City, Let's Do It Again, Uptown Saturday Night, A Piece of the Action, The Five Heartbeats, A Simple Plan, Lackawanna Blues, Boycott, Lady Killers

Television:

The Office, Medium, Jewelry Making on DIY, The food Network (the whole thing, I love to cook) Sopranos,The Journeyman,Tavis Smiley, Oprah,VH-1 soul music videos (I've been a video head since I was 14, no one can stop me!) Curb Your Enthusiam, The Comeback (wonder if it's coming back ???), Soul Train (the old versions are on WGN), MSNBC.

Books:

All autobiographies, I want to hear others tell their own stories.

Heroes:

My Mother, My Grandmothers, My husband, African American Couples who love each other and are keeping their families together, cause it ain't no joke!

My Blog

A little More Flour at the bottom of the barrel

I don't think I'm alone when I say we've been experiencing a drought. Not a drought in the classic or Biblical sense, but more like a cash flow drought. For me, this drought reminds me of a story in t...
Posted by Brooke on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:33:00 PST

Emotional Evolution

As a woman I am proud of the advances we have made. We are attaining education at every level, we have our own careers and businesses, we are working hard within our communities and homes, and we have...
Posted by Brooke on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:49:00 PST

Family Heirlooms

Ask yourself what values, superstitions, myths, and beliefs you hold, which were given to you by those who have loved, nurtured, and reared you. You know what I mean; I like to call them "family heirl...
Posted by Brooke on Tue, 06 May 2008 10:47:00 PST

What is a Healthy Relationship?

Countless times individuals want to hold on to a love that is not healthy because many years have been invested. They say things like "we've been together for all these years, why leave." Sometimes pe...
Posted by Brooke on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:06:00 PST

Why all the Haters?

There is so much talk about haters these days. There are so many saying, "haters everywhere we go," "where my haters," "hate on me haters," my favorite "I look good, so hate me hater," "Let your hater...
Posted by Brooke on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:31:00 PST

We are Still Here...

Looking over 2007 I realize that my family and I have lost a lot. We brought in the year losing a school for our children that we had called home for 5 years. We lost my husband's mother. I lost data ...
Posted by Brooke on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:47:00 PST

Are you Ready?

I often hear women say that they are in need of, praying for, or looking for a man. I see these same women get a man, but somehow things just do not work the way the want. As a result, the search begi...
Posted by Brooke on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:08:00 PST

Why Be Committed to a Non-committment

Have you ever been in a relationship where you've spent lots of time together, you've talked to each other several times a day, you've shared your secrets and inner most thoughts, you've spent many ni...
Posted by Brooke on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:03:00 PST

Be Ms. Right Before Looking for Mr. Right

There is a bunch of talk among women about finding Mr. Right, and there seems to be a common consensus that finding him is a near impossible task. A Woman who is perceived to have found him is envied ...
Posted by Brooke on Thu, 24 May 2007 08:45:00 PST

Be as Choosy as a man.

Have you ever seen a man that has lived his life in a manner that is bankrupt of morality? Maybe he has five children by five different mothers, none of which have been his wife. Maybe he has spent hi...
Posted by Brooke on Sun, 20 May 2007 10:10:00 PST