Shant-Knows-It-All

A Dog Person @shantellewrites Sunday, December 18th, 2022  3 days after my dog was hit by a car and killed. They say Dog  spelled backwards is God , and it’s easy to believe, because my dog has been the truest representation of unconditional love.  A YouTube  video [1]  grieving the death of your pet taught me that we’re lucky to feel waves of pain. If we felt it all at once, it would be too much to bear. It might kill us. I think about  the old woman that dies shortly after her husband of many years. I think my heart is too empathetic, and at risk of death by grief. It scared me at first to think I’d be crying a year later for my Jah-baby , because I wanted there to be less pain for someone less than human. Those who know say they’ve sometimes grieved harder for pets than people they knew. I thought my aunt’s death sent me into a spiral of addiction, but my dog’s death made me wonder if I could go on. Oddly enough though, today, before I wrote this blog, ...

I’m The Boss   by @shantellewrites on Friday, September 16th   After finishing the 1st week of a 6-wk sales training Class Diva “You’re the boss, and Randy is the local sales rep.“  Immediately, my brain plays Beyoncé’s “ A Diva is a female version of a hustler ” —real quick, maybe just that line, and I chuckle on the inside and smirk on the outside. Ha-ha, I had faith in God, whatever challenge was to come walking up here, so He showed me just how specially he’d prepared me to over - come it. He delivered this exact customer visit scenario in my last position (the one that didn’t work out). All I had to do was remember…to channel John. Take the Lead What did John used to say and how did he used to say it? I’d truly admired him. His work ethic, authentic blackness, and kindness was unmatched. I walked up just as confidently as he would and just as well-dressed. I grabbed the national account manager’s hand into a warm executive shake. “Nice to meet you again!” , I say, i...