Cheerleader Lesson 3: It ain't my fault and How to Improve Self-Confidence

It ain't my fault, as Mystical would say. He was one of the mega rap stars in my day. That is the attitude you must have when a player hater tells you that you only made the cheer leading team because of who you know. They will begin to berate you about being a part of handpicking, a terrible cheerleader tradition if...

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My Diary is Pink and my Journal is Blue

My hands are under the bed, and my neck is strained backwards as I try to press my whole self under to grab my key.  "It is under here somewhere, it just dropped", I think, and finally my hands feel the stick of the mini jagged edges.  My diary is safe once again.  At 10 I was the typical 80's latch k...

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Life Lessons I learned as A Cheerleader: (Lesson 2) You have to SHOW UP to SHOW OUT

Where is my life manual?!?! Does anyone actually have a grasp on how this living thing works? Well, one sunshiny day while purging old papers in one of my many attempts to go "paperless" (I am not there yet at all), I ran across my FAMU Cheerleader Handbook. I nostalgically begin to take a read... I find it interesting that I still have it after so many moves;...

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