People Who Are Hurt, Hurt People!
Criticism and How To Handle It! Let me introduce you to the Tate Family: Dick-tate, Agi-tate, and Ira-tate. They may have other names like Mom, boss, cousin, neighbor – but I’m sure you know them. All of the Tates have one thing in common, they relentlessly criticize you and are NEGATIVE and damaging to your self-esteem.…
Change: What To Keep, What to Lose!
As I bite my nails and re read my book, Big Girls Do Cry, I cry. I cry releasing grief, rejoicing in a project well done, and the many ways I’ve changed even since I wrote this passionate tale. I look at the photos in the book and it can’t be helped but to recall…
Frankie Valli Expose ‘Big Girls Do Cry’ By April Kirkwood Comes Out In Paperback
Frankie Valli and the Four Season were back on the charts, the movie charts, last year when the Broadway stage play “Jersey Boys” was brought to the screen by acclaimed director Clint Eastwood. The film charted the rise of four kids from Newark as they made music and trouble in almost equal number. The band…
The Five Dirty D’s of a Successful Life
Let’s Get Real! If you want a reality check about your life, write your story. It only costs about a few bucks at The Dollar Store to get a notebook and a pencil. Yes, I said pencil. The very act of rubbing off the incorrect thoughts and feelings is in and of itself so cleansing.…
How Do You Face Off?
The Many Faces of You! We all know by now that each of us play several roles in each and every moment of our lives. Some may include: employee, spouse, child, student. And then of course, the less definitive titles of friend, lover, healer. While we have all had enough basic to psych to be…