For Dreamers, Thinkers and Achievers
By Cheryl Mattox Berry You’ve seen them fanning incessantly while proclaiming to everyone in earshot that they’re having a private summer. You’ve witnessed their irritability and keep your distance. The two of you play a game of seesaw with the thermostat. Women going through menopause are easy to spot. If you ask them, they’ll rattle […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry The last time I got together with girlfriends for Happy Hour, the conversation eventually turned to our aging bodies, specifically what we’d go under the knife to change. Survey said: boobs (perkier,) bellies (flatter) and erasing those facial lines that make us look tired and angry. Of course, we were under […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry Soulless. Spineless. Demented. There aren’t enough words in the dictionary to describe the 29-year-old man who shot up Pulse nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 patrons and wounding 53 others. Whatever his religious or moral beliefs were regarding homosexuality, they didn’t justify the carnage, which is being called the deadliest mass shooting […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry I just finished watching the remake of Roots, which premiered Memorial Day on the History Channel and aired across three other cable networks. It was a beautiful, gut-wrenching, brutal and powerful story, more realistic than the groundbreaking original series in January 1977. The new Roots, subtitled “The Journey of an American Family,” shows […]
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