A 2nd Chance

TED WILLIAMS is one, happy fella these days.  Homeless off and on over the past 20 years, he is now an employed voice-over artist, utilizing the supremely terrific voice God gave him.  Drugs and alcohol derailed him from a promising career years ago.  I hope & pray that his "2nd Chance" is THE chance that sets him up for the rest of his life.  I reckon I love his story so much because I, too, feel like this year is going to be MY second chance!!  Dear God, I thank you for Ted's second chance.  And for MINE.  Thank you.

The Voice

Last night I went to record a chapter of my book.  I want to hear what it sounds like as an audio file.  Tonight I'll go back to complete its recording.  Although I'm recording in a makeshift studio, when I'm sitting in it, I feel like I'm at NBC or ABC or CBS!!  I'm determined to make this year the BREAKOUT year for me professionally.  I'm GOING to earn my living doing what I was BORN to do.  TALK.  And WRITE.  That's that.  No two ways around it.  The kid who serves as my recording engineer, JOEY, is a GODSEND!  I fully intend to take him along on my meteoric rise in the world of professional fulfillment!!!  Just watch!

Speechless!

Here it is Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 and people are STILL shocked and/or outraged by the fact that there are gay men and women among us!  For real???  Well, I just watched the latest, music video by Marsha Ambrosius, former member of the group, Floetry, and I have to admit that the visual story told in that video left me SPEECHLESS!  And it warmed my heart at the exact, same time!  WOW!  Although it pains me to say that she and the actors in the video were courageous in making it, realistically, I know they were.  Kudos to them for telling a story that needs to be told.  A story that also needs to be OLD NEWS.  Why's it so hard to do unto others as you'd have them do unto you?  Why?

If I've Said It Once...

My upstairs neighbors are at it again.  No, not making love.  FIGHTING!  Throwing SH*T!  Yelling!  Breaking SH*T!  I hear the chick yelling at him to get out of HER house!  And I hear him yelling back, "You're messin' up things!"  Really???  Keep in mind that this is the same couple who got into a tiff last summer that lead the dude to attempt suicide!  That chick must really be somethin'!  She smiles and speaks when I see her.  I reckon since I'm not the one bangin' her, I don't get to see the REAL her.  And I reckon that's just fine by me!!!  Last year, I would've said that I look forward to the day they move.  But, this year...oh, no.  I don't want THEM to do a DAMN thing!  'Cause THIS year...I'M moving!  And I'm moving into a very, very comfortable and well-appointed abode that I'VE purchased!  Don't know WHEN, but I know I AM!!!!  Until then, though, all I gotta say about my upstairs neighbors is:  Lawd, have mercy!!!!

Happy New YOU!

Touré Roberts, the pastor at my new church home, One Church International, said something today that really struck me.  He said that if we usher in the New Year doing the same thing and being the same person we were in the old year, no new, terrific changes are destined to happen for us.  However, if we enter the new year with a pledge to live differently, with different behavior, eleven months down the road, we'd see GREAT change.  So, instead of saluting folks in the coming days with the same, ol' tired, "Happy New Year," it's probably better to tell 'em, "Happy New You!"  And, I, for one, welcome such a greeting!  And, I, for one, will change last year's behavior so that living differently allows me to receive different BLESSINGS!  Here's to a new ME!  And to a new YOU!  :)

My New Year REVELATION!!!!!!!!!!

No RESOLUTIONS for me this New Year.  Uh, uh!  Instead, this ol' dude has experienced a REVELATION!!!!  Beginning TODAY, JANUARY 1, 2011, I have accepted that MONEY comes to me EASILY & ABUNDANTLY!  Period!

I'm As Bad As They Come - No More Fakin' It!

I rang in the New Year in Manhattan Beach inside the gorgeous home of people who hired the chef who hired me to work their New Year's Eve shindig!  Honestly, the house was spectacular!  Anyway, when the party wrapped and I drove home, all I could think was, this New Year is gonna be MY year!  The beginning of CAM Jr living the life he was BORN to live!  Since I've always been such a television junkie, the song that best sums up what I'm feeling is the theme song of a '70s sitcom!  Oh, some of the song's lyrics are sooooooooooooooo what I'm feelin' right now!

Listen everyone here
This coming year's gonna be my year
I'm as bad as they come
Number two to no one
I've got looks, I've got brains
And I'm breakin' these chains
Make some room now dig what you see
Success is mine
I've got the key
I'm makin' it