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About Me

Hey ya'll, what's up? This is Show originally from D-Town, that's Dallas for all of ya'll that don't know about that Texas connection. About me? God's taken me on an amazing journey throughout 25 years of living and the last three have especially been eye-opening. I lived in Des Moines, IA for two years after finishing school at the University of Texas and recently moved to Orlando, FL working as a writer. The work has been fabulous and extremely challenging for me. It's tested my confidence and forced me to face my insecurities in ways that I never expected. A lack of confidence and mounting insecurities trapped me into a private battle of depression for most of my life, but I'm facing those things everyday. I will finish this race of life strong and, prayerfully, slay things that my future kids won't have to. flowers layout @ HOT FreeLayouts.com MyHotComments
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My Interests

I interested in maximizing this life and inspiring others to do so as well. Live your dreams today.

I'd like to meet:

Screw famous people. They don't know me, I don't know them. I'd like to re-meet my dad. I didn't really get a chance to know him well when he was living because he was battling multiple sclerosis. My dad was one of the first black Frito Lay managers at the Dallas plant.

Music:

Musiq Soul Child, Stevie Wonder (Songs in the Key of Life), Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary, Kindred, Beyonce, the Beatles, Coldplay (A rush of Blood to the Head), Dixie Chicks, Alanis Morrisette, Seal (everything), Nina Simone, Cassandra Wilson, OutKast, Zero 7 (Simple Things...buy it today), Elton John, Carly Simon, John Mayer, Annie Lennox, Phil Collins, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Nancy Wilson, Chaka Khan, Roberta Flack, Lauryn Hill, good thinking music

Movies:

Love Jones, The Wood, Forrest Gump, Flight of the Navigator (bringing it back, huh?), Sixteen Candles, The Deer Hunter, The Color Purple, Glory, Million Dollar Baby, Cooley High, Shawshank Redemption, In the Bedroom, When Harry Met Sally

Television:

America's Next Top Model, American Idol, Grey's Anatomy

Books:

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, The Punch by John Feinstein, The Power of Vision by Myles Monroe, Flowers in the Attic (can't remember author right now), I can't even lie, when I was younger I could read up to four Sweet Vally High books in a day (seriously), Little Women, Jewel

Heroes:

I would have said Jesus, but a hero by definition is a mythological or legendary figure of great strength and I know Jesus is real. My mom, brother Chris, sister Mica. Ya'll know the struggles at 8804 Sugarberry Road!

My Blog

Keep the scissors away from my hair

I'm not a big You-Tube junkie, but my co-worker forwarded this to me the other day. This is the funniest ish I've ever seen in my life!!!! If you're having a down day, please click on this link and yo...
Posted by Show on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:33:00 PST

Self Worth does not equal selfishness

Oooooh ya'll!!!! I was fuming mad after I got off a family conference call Saturday night/early Sunday morning. The subject was the ever popular "Shannon's love life." Why certain relationships work ...
Posted by Show on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:35:00 PST

The CDC announces latest epidemic: singlehood

Watch out world, I'm SINGLE! Beware friends, it may be contagious! Farewell ladies and gentlemen, I think I bit the big one. Lizabeth, I'm comin home, for real! (Sanford and Son for those of ya'll th...
Posted by Show on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:00:00 PST

The Claire Huxtable curse

Claire Huxtable messed up the game. Or should I say the genius writers who created this perfectly manicured, always articulate, never flustered, super intelligent, warm loving mother of five, und...
Posted by Show on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:19:00 PST

Choices

I just watched one of my favorite love stories of all time, The Notebook, for the umpteenth time again last night and found myself meditating on the movie's central theme: choices. (If you ...
Posted by Show on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:08:00 PST

If one more celebrity adopts Africa

The latest entertainment news headlines praise George Clooney for his crusade to stop genocide in Sudan. I say, so what. Before you wrinkle your nose in disgust, I care about Africa. I mean, I am Afri...
Posted by Show on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:14:00 PST

Coming tomorrow: Bobby Brown and Karrine

I have to get ready for work tonight, but you best believe comments must be made about the impending Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston breakup.
Posted by Show on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:08:00 PST

2006 VMA's : Bringing stank back

Before I get into this, let me just say this. I love music. Really. And I don't mean just pop songs that play on the radio or just "black" music. I love it all. Gospel, classical, rock, R&B, hip ...
Posted by Show on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:04:00 PST

Day 10: It's over now

So technically day 10 was about two weeks ago, but I dropped the ball on blogging about the final day. Since I can't really remember much, except that my face was in a small box of chicken fried rice...
Posted by Show on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:51:00 PST

Wake Up!!

Primetime did a special report last night about the AIDS/HIV epidemic in the black community. Needless to say, the raw statistics were mind blowing. Can you believe black women account for 68 per...
Posted by Show on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:39:00 PST