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'Scuse me while I Kiss this Guy

Misheard/Misunderstood Song Lyrics I grew up in a pretty conservative family. My parents didn’t listen to disco and R & B, but rather, the radio was tuned to either talk, easy listening or classical. It was just the way things were done. However, at school, the other children would bring snippets of songs that caught my interest and I would go home and twirl the FM dial, searching for these songs. As a kid, you listen to the lyrics and interpret them through a child’s eyes/experience, which left me saying “huh?” to a lot of the songs. Read on, and you will see how a little Dahlia just didn’t get half the stuff she was listening to. Let’s begin, and don’t be afraid to laugh. 1. Pull up to the Bumper (Grace Jones) – “Pull up to the bumper baby, in your long black limousine.” – This song… Continued

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Sad Songs Say So Much

It’s Monday, right? I’m not the type to sing the Monday blues, because that’s just not my style. Every day when I can wake up and do what I love is a blessing to me. Now that my “positive thinking” public service announcement is out of the way, let’s move on to the meat of the matter. The blues. Everybody gets them at one time or another for all types of reasons, but today I’m going to focus on the love blues. “The blues are the roots, everything else is the fruits.” – Willie Dixon What is the blues? The blues have their origin in slave songs, field hollers and spirituals. For my purposes here, the blues is what you sing and/or feel when you are feeling sad. You lost a lover. You never had a lover. Your lover loves someone else. So you sing the blues. Somehow knowing that

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Monday Morning Music

This weekend was busy busy busy and therefore, I only have this hopefully inspirational song to rev up your Monday. What’s that one song that gets you cranked in the morning? Leave it in the comments. Cheers!

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Tuneful Tuesdays – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

I loved this song when it came out because of Cyndi’s don’t give a durn attitude and her style. I also liked the way the video included different types of women – giving you the feeling that if you were in the vicinity while they were filming, Cyndi might have pulled you into the video too! From songfacts.com: Lauper co-wrote many of her own songs, but not this one. Like “I Will Survive,” it’s a girl power song written by a man. A Philadelphia singer/songwriter named Robert Hazard, who had a band called Robert Hazard and the Heroes, wrote it. Hazard recorded his demo of the song in 1979. Speaking with Rolling Stone, Lauper said that she had to alter the lyrics from Hazard’s original. “It was originally about how fortunate he was ’cause he was a guy around these girls that wanted to have ‘fun’ – with him –

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Women's History Month

Hello and happy Friday to everyone out there. March is National Woman’s History Month and since I am a woman, I wanted to take some time to take a look at some women who affected history. Ida B. Wells-Barnett – I’m sure many of you have read my little ditties about Ms. Ida. In fact, my contribution to the HerStory anthology was a fictionalized version of what might have happened on the day that Mrs. Wells-Barnett was barred from marching with her Illinois delegation because the National American Woman Suffrage Association didn’t want to offend the “delicate” sensibilities of the Southern ladies. Despite the name “woman” in the association title, these Southern flowers threatened to pull out of the march if blacks marched alongside whites. She hid out until the Illinois delegation passed, then joined in. Nannie Helen Burroughs – Black educator and suffrage supporter. She established industrial schools throughout

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Recipe Wednesday – Baked Oatmeal

I have three little ones, 10, 9 (going on 25, that’s my girl) and 7. Needless to say, mornings in the house are a bit chaotic. Though I try to mitigate the rushing around by helping them get things ready the night before, I am a mommy who is not a morning person. You will not find me smiling with bluebirds on my shoulder, cooking eggs and bacon and pancakes at the crack of dawn. Not over here. But I still want my little ones to have a healthful breakfast that doesn’t require a lot of morning prep. Eureka! Baked oatmeal! If I prepare the ingredients the night before, I can mix it quickly in the morning and pop it in the oven. Or, make it the night before and reheat in the morning. Either way, this baked oatmeal recipe is pretty durn tasty. A note about my recipes –