Do you use your Intuition or Trust?
Do you use your Intuition or Trust? There is a difference between trust and intuition. Intuition is a feeling that exists as a subconscious feeling, which is the subconscious allowing 80% of the brain to have inner knowledge. The brain triggers that what you feel...
I Would Rather Die on My Feet Than Live on My Knees
I Would Rather Die on My Feet Than Live on My Knees “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” Those were the words of Gorges Wolinski, famed cartoonist of the Paris publication, Charlie Hebdo. Wolinski was among the 12 dead at the Paris publication on...
Separating The Wheat From the Chaff
Separating The Wheat From the Chaff The origins of the phrase, ‘separating the wheat from the chaff’ are Biblical, but the practice lies deep in my Midwestern farming roots. As farmers would thresh the wheat across the rolling farmland, they had to separate the actual...
The Opinionated Bitch – One Vote
The Opinionated Bitch – One Vote Like most citizens, I’ve suffered through the endless political attack ads assaulting the airwaves and my senses. The money spent on those ads has done nothing to sway my opinion on a single race or a single issue but then, those ads...
Doctor, I Think I Have Tennis Ebola
Doctor, I Think I Have Tennis Ebola Okay, I’ve resorted to dark humor to get your attention. It’s time for me to sit you down and have the ‘Ebola Talk’. Now that a man lied on travel papers to get into the United States after having been exposed to the virus, the...
Especially When it Rains
Especially When it Rains Today a mother buried her teenage son in suburban St. Louis - after three autopsies, a city rocked with anger and protests and a country faced with its own deeply divided past and present. She has waited for 16 long and agonizing days to give...
From Mississippi Burning to Missouri Burning
From Mississippi Burning to Missouri Burning Author’s note: This story is breaking from minute to minute. What I started out to write is turning into something completely different. I apologize if this seems somewhat rambling. It was just four short months ago that...
The Opinionated Bitch – The Swiftboating of An American Prisoner of War
The Swiftboating of An American Prisoner of War In 2004, Secretary of State John Kerry was a candidate for President of the United States. A group calling themselves Swift Vets and POWs for Truth waged a now discredited vicious campaign against then candidate Kerry to...
The Opinionated Bitch – Dear Maya:
Dear Maya: My soul is filled with a sadness I have only known since the death of one of my closest friends. Meeting you was on my bucket list, but it was not to be. I did not know you personally and yet, and yet… At the tender and decades ago age of 23, I was browsing...
The Opinionated Bitch – Dear Monica Lewinsky
The Opinionated Bitch - Dear Monica Lewinsky Dear Monica, Hi. Carol Baker here, also known as “The Opinionated Bitch”. Don’t be put off by the nickname. It’s just what people call me because I have a tendency to calls ‘em like I sees ‘em. I’d like to talk to you about...
Don’t Walk in My Shoes
Don't Walk in My Shoes When a person goes ahead and finds something wrong with your thinking and chooses to judge you, do you feel as though they have not been in your position and look down at you? They are overstepping their bounds. Don’t walk in my shoes. It is...
Do Spirits Connect with Souls in the Physical?
Do Spirits Connect with Souls in the Physical? Spirits most definitely do connect with their loved ones. In native traditions, people view souls by crossing their eyes and by watching the soul release from the cord. Spirits that cross over to the other veil, as we...
