Manns Medium

Is it just me or have we now heard the truth about these best sellers lists and how those who get on them may not doing so in the true spirit of sales?  For as long as I can remember, writers have worked very hard to get their works included not only on the New York Times Best Sellers List but the Los Angeles Times and others as well.  Many will find inventive ways to market their books and some will only consider writing a book with their intended audience in mind but nothing makes all this seem less worthy than what is found in this article written by John Prager titled “ NY Times Throws Ted Cruz Off Bestseller List For Cheating, Conservatives Go Insane ”. The article says “ Ted Cruz’s new book, A “Time For Truth,” has managed some impressive sales numbers since it was published on June 30, with almost 12,000 copies sold in the first week. In fact, judging purely by sales, it should have been near the top of the New York Times’ bestseller list, with more than 1,000 sale...

You could always find mother sitting on his screened in front porch in the 700 block of Ashland Avenue.  He seemed to always be standing guard over his two story partially brick framed house where so many have walked through his doors and emerged a completely different person than when they went in.  Mother was a person who took in those that others had given up on or tossed away.  The forgotten ones and those left to fend for themselves after all of the social-experiments had failed.  That house had a reputation of finding that ingot of good in a person and turning it into a gold mine of talent and righteousness. Ask anyone around the neighborhood and they would tell you tales of mother and how he was able to reach those that was once thought unreachable.  How he could take those harden by society, jail and circumstances and mold them into citizens with more than a purpose.  They became citizens with a cause.  But the most interesting thing about...

For some this may be hard to believe but God always makes a way.  I tell you this because even I have doubts sometimes and wonder if God does hear my prayers.  I have been unemployed since 2009 and as much experience and knowledge that I have obtained in my years of dwelling here on this earth has not been enough and in some cases too much to land a really good job.  So I sat, losing the only source of strength I have held onto for so long, my manhood.  Feeling it slip away little by little until I discovered why it was leaving. It was not leaving because of anything that anyone else was doing.  Yes, they could have given me an entry level position just to maintain my manhood but it still wasn’t their fault my manhood was leaving.  My manhood was leaving because I was putting my faith in them and allowing them to dictate my destiny.  When I figured this out, you should have seen my immediate reaction, knowing that they do not control my destiny, I...