Sylvia Hubbard's Blog

FYI: Detroit Mayoral Forum with 14 Candidates

 

I’m no sports nuts (despite the fact that I did date a professional football player and my current beau is a football nut).

But I know a little something something about the game and I was shocked to hear that there could be a tie in football.

 I’ve never heard of that happening even almost happening and I think they said this is the first time.

 

 

What’s yanking my chain is that fact that they’re making fun of Donovan McNabb who admitted that he didn’t know about it either.

 

 

So what he’s got so much wins under his belt that it makes him look like he has dunlap. Has it occurred to you – the sports writer – that when the NFL was shaking money in his face to get him to sign a contract, no one sent him to NFL university or given him a workshop on NFL 101.

 

 

Heck, shake a million at me and see if I click past the rules, terms and conditions. (I think I did that when I signed up for this blog account.) Who reads the fine print anymore and who else – except the rule makers, administrators and people making money from this sport – actually knew there was a tie.

 

 

Give the guy a freaking break!

 

 

 

 

Awesome film! Check out the YouTube Video here or click the picture!!

 

Inspirational Writing Workshop Series

 

 

Join us for one or more sessions in a new signature series. DWW moderators will share inspirational insights and lead “round tables” with interactive exercises. The free series evolves from 2 – 4 p.m. on November Saturdays in Michigan counties at treasured library resources. Light refreshments will be served. There will also be books/other special items available for sale/signing by the acclaimed and award-winning authors, writers and poets. Pre registration is required in advance of each workshop so that moderators will be able to prepare for it. NIRMM Originator and Coordinator Darlene House, House of Communications Owner and Chief Communications Specialist, is hosting the series. To obtain additional information or for required pre registration, call 313.778.1550 or e-mail nirmmnews@yahoo.com with “IWW” in the subject line. Visit www.nirmm.wordpress.com for celebration insights, updates and partner links – including one for DWW at www.detroitworkingwriters.org.

 

 

 

 DWW-IWW #2                                              Saturday, November 22, 2008

 

Oakland County                                            2 – 4 p.m.

 

Oak Park Public Library                                 Co Abatt – Feature Writing

 

14200 Oak Park Blvd.                                                Cynthia Harrison – Memoirs 

 

Oak Park, MI                                                  Margo LaGattuta – Poetry/Prose

 

248.691.7480                                          
                                                       
   Iris Lee Underwood–The Way of a

 

                                                      
                  Storyteller

 

 

 

 DWW-IWW #3                                              Saturday, November 29, 2008

 

Wayne County                                              2 – 4 p.m.

 

Detroit Public Library – Main Library            Jean Alicia Elster – Young Adult

 

5201 Woodward Avenue                               Maureen McGerty – Journalism

 

Detroit, MI                                                    
  Marquita L. Scott – Novel Writing

 

313.833.1000

 

 

 

            2008 Theme: Enjoying Beautiful Creations with Inspiring Revelations.

 

ALRIGHT!

i've never asked for anything from you guys at fox 2 but you should have already suspected i was going to come hard and come strong on this subject.

HOW DARE YOU GIVE AWAY MY BRIAN MCKNIGHT TICKETS TO JUST ANYONE?!

How many times do i tell you over and over : I LOVE BRIAN MCKNIGHT!!

Sista will strip naked and run down 8 mile until all y'all come out that building to see me for those tickets!!

He's my world! I love me some Brian. More than anything else in the whole world. He gives me crazy love, he gives me one last cry, he's my inspiration, my motivation my man!!! in a single woman's looney world.

he got me through heartbreaks, divorce, stress full times (yes, that's two words in a single mother's world), frustrations and confusions of this world.

i've gone to hell and back and what's kept me sane is Brian

So if you don't want me really really mad at you, you need to send me an email and say, Hey Sylvia, I heard you were a Brian McKnight fan. Here's two tickets. (cause you know i don't have a car and i need to bring my ride unless you also arrange a nice limosine then you might as well throw in some back stage tickets too.)

Why do it?

Cause I'm your best blogger (except for shockhazard)

Cause I'm a single mother who hasn't had a vacation in 13 years and is about to go out of her mind

Cause my momma said all you can say is no ( and Sylvia hates that word. i hear it too much already)

CAUSE I LOVE BRIAN MCKNIGHT!!!!!

(PS. honestly i can't stay mad at you long. Never could hold a grudge, but it might last until November 30, 2008.)

 

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/422181 

 

Guess Who's Doing NaNoWriMo?

 

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/422181

 

  Yes, I'm crazy and not sane at all to involve myself in this. On top of that, I'm really going out on a limb and challenging myself by starting my first Christian Romance novel. Lawd da help I've already got a title: Eve's Deceptive. I'm already envisioning the cover which is a first since I usually don't do [...]   Read more at: http://sylviahubbard.wordpress.com   See my NaNoWri page and become my buddy: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/422181

What is the name of your alter Ego?

 

Beyonce has an alter ego now: Sasha Fierce

Eminem wanted to be known as Slim Shady (but then changed his mind cause people liked Slim more than they liked Eminem).

And then Prince wanted to be known as _____ okay, I can't find any keys on the QWERTY to type it, but you get the point.

In all this, I ask do we all have alter egos? Is there a little bit of Sybil in all of us?

If you don't know who Sybil is I must be showing my age, LOL.

When I was little, I had a lot of emotional issues with my father and my family - I think I still do, LOL. But I had an imaginary friend. I called him Sylvester. I'd tell him my stories and my secrets and in turn he would assure me that I was special and smart - something my father forgot to tell me a lot when I was growing up.

By teen, Sylvester had gone away and in it's place was Cat. A dark side of me that I don't like to bring up but she had the backbone that I knew I didn't have and got me through a lot of things that I don't think I as Sylvia could have made it through, but she also got me in a lot of trouble too.

In college my club name was Kelli. I was the party girl that didnt' need a drink to get the party started. I think I was the only one who wasn't drunk in the bars, but I was the life of the party. I wasn't the shy girl. And i definitely wasn't the stay at the table or the wall flower. I danced, swung from the chandeliers and made sure by the end of the night, you knew I had been there.

I still tell stories to myself and sometimes I do look beside me as if someones sitting there. And that evil side of me is still around, but I don't refer to her as a separate entity

And then there's Kelli. I like tokeep her close that way I can blame all the wickedly nasty things I do on her.

LOL

If I had to name my alter ego now though, I would call her Cali. (A little like Cat and a little like Kelli, but a lot of Caliente).

 

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against married parents and no children people trying to give single parents advise about raising children. that's a whole 'nother arena you don't know 'nah 'bout, Beo-yotch!

against women whose hair looks better than the way their children are dressed.
against gold teeth. whichever woman encouraged a man that was attractive that's just nasty!
against calling for a number and not having a pen to write things down

against asking stupid questions and not expecting a stupid answer. (ex: who is the CEO of Detroit? If I was born in tennessee, can I get my birth certificate in Detroit, Michigan? if a freaking tree falls in the woods and no ones around, will anyone hear it?)

against asking a woman out when you're riding the bus knowing you don't have a car to pick her up on a date.

against not flossing. smell like the dead rose up in your mouth

against wearing a wig that you know you should have combed out ten days ago but you just keep on wearing it over and over again and then have the nerve to sleep in it.

against fake toenails

against talking on the cell phone while you're on a date.

against wearing your blue tooth while in church (especially while you're in the choir and then having the nerve to answer it while you're singing.)

okay, add your own...

(and don't add silly political racist stuff cause I'm certainly going to delete it!)

Michigan Mother Who Left Son in Omaha Identified Michigan Teenager Dropped at Omaha Hospital Michigan Teenager Dropped At Omaha, Neb.,
When does it come to a point in a mother's life when she says to herself, "I can't do this anymore."

There have been times as a mother I've said this and cried over my failure to support my children, whether emotional and financially. The grief that embodies a parent at the realization that its either me or the kid is a very scary thing because what comes after once you journey down the road its something you can't reverse or take back.

I've been blessed from day one for not chosing that road, but there are so many others that haven't.

After reading these stories and finding out that the mother was not even alone in the car with the child. Her mother and aunt were with her! Most likely to hold the boy in place.

I've threatened my children several times that I'll give them up rather than kill them after they do some of the most disrespectful idiot crap this side of the Mississippi. (I've been using that term a lot lately.)

But people must know that YOU did this to that poor woman.

For a while I've been shouting for more attention to be put on mental help for single parents. There's no outlet.

In the community we're regarded as leeching off the system

In the church we're regarded as sinners.

In our own family, we're regarded as the bad apple.

What have you done for a single parent ever?!

It's double the mental stress, double the responsibility and triple the heartache when it all feels like it's about to go really wrong?

Now I'm a believer that if you crap in the bed, you need to go and lie in it and work it out, but people have got to understand that it really does take a village to raise a child and there needs to be more programs and more assistance out there to help single parents take care of themselves.

HELP!

Sylvia Hubbard & Motown Writers Voted Metro Times BEST LITERARY HOST & LITERACY BOOSTER 2008!

 

BEST LITERARY HOST AND
LITERACY BOOSTER

 

Motown Writers Network

Celebrating its eighth year, the organization founded by author, Sylvia Hubbard hosts its fifth annual “Essence of Motown Literary Jam and Conference” Nov. 6-9. Through its free, weekly Web newsletter, free, monthly seminars on self-publishing, marketing and writing, and frequent collaborations with local libraries, the Network has become one of the largest volunteer literacy organizations in Michigan. Among its recent honors are the 2005 Spirit of Detroit Award and the 2008 Detroit Literary Empowerment Gala’s Community Champion Award.

 

 

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This is going to create a snow storm of criminals to be released from the already laden high crime city.

And if you think we're broke now good lawd, the lawsuits are going to kill this city!

Janaya Black is going to blow the movie screen open with her debut film Til Death. I enjoyed it and I hope you help me send this to a million friends to support this wonderful woman doing her thing!

 

Still on my R. Kelly tangent and thought I'd follow up with current news.

 

Did anyone watch this R. Kelly interview on BET? 

I talked in depth about this man's descent into the madness and now I have the proof from the horses mouth.

The man in his own words. Please tune in to the part where Toure asks him whether or not he likes teenage girls - Lawd da help!

Toure: Do you like teenage girls?

R. Kelly: “When you say teenage, how old do you mean? I have some 19-year-old friends, but I don’t like anyone illegal if that’s what we are talking about, underage.”

Are you serious R. Kelly? This madness has to stop.

 

 

 putting lipstick on a pig

A term used by many, generally in reference to someone who may be trying to make something or someone look appealing or attractive when it quite clearly will not work, or will only deceive the dumbest of people.

Car salesmen are generally good at "putting lipstick on a pig" because they are always selling unroadworthy buckets of BLEEP and try and hide their shitfulness by tarting them up.

The dude in that car yard just put a body kit on that piece of BLEEP. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig

 

I got this one from the urban word of the day dictionary and I thought it eloquent and timely enough to share.

The Detroit Literary Meet & Greet

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Sep 13 Sat 10:30 AM Location Barnes and Noble

Warren & Cass in Detroit, MI 48202
Detroit, MI 48202

Who's organizing?
Monica Marie Jones and Sylvia Hubbard

Literary Meet and Greet for

Readers & Writers

 

FREE TO THE PUBLIC

 

WAYNE STATE BARNES AND NOBLE

http://wayne.bncolleg...

82 West Warren
Detroit, MI 48202

 

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

10:30am - 1:30pm

 

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In a literary community that needs a pick up, join readers and writers in an wonderful celebration of the written word.

 

Motown Writers Network hosts the 2008 Motown Literary Meet and Greet, where readers can find out the latest books that are out, check out other Michigan authors and book swap or donate books.

 

Writers can come to network and learn about the business with other professionals.

Find out the latest events and organizations that are working to create a stronger literary community for Michigan.

 

Supporting events such as this benefits and encourages everyone.

 

Light refreshments will be served.

 

Guest Authors will include:

Paula Tutman, suspense author & WDIV Anchor (tentative)
Poet, Men-Tal, author of Silent Screams (tentative)
Derek Vitatoe, urban contemporary author, Deacon's Circle (tentative)

Kimberly Brooks, Christian Fiction author of He's saved...But Is He For Real? & The Little Black Survival Book for Single Saints (tentative)
Monica Marie Jones, Young Adult & Urban Contemporary Author of The Ups and Downs of Being Round & newly released, Floss.
Sylvia Hubbard, Suspense Romance Author of Secrets, Lies & Family Ties
John Jeffries, author of Stone+Fist+Brick+Bone (tentative)

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Invited literary community guests:

 

Margaret Williamson, President of Pro-Literacy of Detroit
Tracey Frazier, Coordinator of Steps in Faith Writing Challenge
Andrea McCatskill, coordinator of the Southeastern Bookclub Mix and Mingle

If you write or read - COME!

If you've published or getting published - COME!

If you know a friend who's a reading fanatic or a writer, bring them and you COME!

If you don't like to read or write, still COME!

This event is sponsored by Michigan Murder and Mayhem and Motown Writers Network.

If you would like to sponsor this event or provide media coverage, please contact us at: motownwriters [at] yahoo.com