PAULA NEAL MOONEY

Working With You is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work I guess this is the best part of being an isolated blogger -- at least for a couple of hours out of each day. I don't have to buy books like this new one by Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster, titled Working With You is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work to help me deal with some annoying coworker that gets on my nerves that I can't escape, like the high-pitched voiced, rotund woman on Office Space that answered her phone extremely happily every few seconds. But I do remember what it was like back in gray cube land, dealing with a few folks who got on my nerves. During days when I wasn't the one getting on other folks' nerves, I pretty much treated every one equally. 'cept the red-faced guy with the Napolean complex who wanted to rule us all. Or the witchy woman who was rough around the edges. Or the...Never mind! Just read an excerpt here... It looks fantastic. ...

by Paula Neal Mooney I just watched this amazing "A Girl Like Me" video clip of the award-winning documentary by Kiri Davis , a 17-year-old New York high school student. (Thanks, dreah , for the heads up.) Kiri Davis conducted a modern-day "doll study" wherein she asked black children to choose between the black and white dolls. Most of them selected the white dolls. But skin bleaching tales caught my ear the most. One black woman spoke of friends who actually pour bleach in their baths in sad attempts to lighten their skin. I understand the mentality. Even though some blacks consider me light-skinned, my biracial friends and whites are quicker to call me dark-skinned. All depends on your perspective. Anyhoo, I still use the skin lightening cream sold in grocery stores. I tell myself it's just to even out my skin tone. But I feel a little weird at times as it moves down the conveyor belt toward the register. I snickered at my mom when she used beauty products ...

Okay, all you TMX Tickle Me Elmo fiends...Amazon has this TMX Tickle Me Elmo pic on its site today. I don't know if they mean that the T.M.X. Tickle Me Elmo will be offered at one of the dirt-cheap "Customer Vote" prices that I've been voting on but haven't been selected to receive yet or something else. But if you're one of the many folks hot to get a T.M.X. Tickle Me Elmo for their kids (or themselves, it is cute the way it flips around), keeping checking this T.M.X. Tickle Me Elmo link today for more info. Bookmark http://www.paulamooney.blogspot.com/ for more hot deals. Tags: tmx , tickle , me , elmo , stock , sale