Conversations Of A Sistah, Tracy L. Bell, What she said

The roles that we play…Tonight on “Conversations Of A Sistah”


letgoofthemask

Some of us just don’t live in the truth but live fantasies every single day to satisfy impressions or to sway opinions. One of the aspects of life that systems pays close attention to is that of roles.

What roles do you play in your life right now? We start out as son or daughter and perhaps a sibling. Later we become cousins, aunts, uncles, wives, husbands, mothers or fathers. Within our family of origin we play deeper roles: the responsible one, the lost one, the scapegoat, the mascot. Often these follow in the order of birth with the responsible one being the eldest and the cute one being the youngest.

There are many ways that people can influence our behavior, but perhaps one of the most important is that the presence of others seems to set up expectations and these expectations produce role play.

Social roles are the part people play as members of a social group. With each social role you adopt, your behavior changes to fit the expectations both you and others have of that role.

Think of how many roles you play in a single day, e.g. son, daughter, sister, brother, students, worker, friend etc.  Each social role carries expected behaviors.

Join me tonight at 8:00 PM on Conversations Of A Sistah” via “Conversations Live” as we explore the roles we play in life, real or fake?

Conversations Of A Sistah

All “Conversation Links” in this post make it possible to access tonight’s show….

Can’t wait to meet you on the air but in the meantime sound off here!

Angela Bassett, Cissy Houston, Television movies, What she said, Whitney Houston

Cissy Houston not in agreement with Lifetime movie Bio Of Whitney!


Screen Shot 2014-07-23 at 10.49.44 AM

Whitney Houston’s mother Cissy Houston breaks her silence regarding the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic directed by Angela Bassett on Lifetime television.

Cissy tells ET:

“Lifetime has chosen to go ahead with the movie about Whitney in spite of my family’s objections. No one connected with this movie knew Whitney or anything about her relationship with Bobby.”

“In the two years since Whitney’s death, many people have stepped forward to speak about their close relationship with her. I find it difficult to believe people who knew and supposedly loved her would participate in a movie about her done by folks who didn’t know her. We are exhausted by the continuing misinformation and comments offered by people who did not know her. Please please let her rest.”

Drama, Tennessee, Weddings, What she said

The Bride dragged her baby in the train of her dress!


article-2645593-1E64FE5A00000578-637_636x382

This story is simply unbelievable!

A Tennessee bride marched down the aisle with her newborn daughter strapped to the train of her wedding dress. The baby was awake as the bride walked down the aisle, saying the baby was ‘well-secured’ and ‘covered by Christ’.

Carter-Brooks wrote. has been bombarded online following her marriage to Johnathan Brooks in Ripley, Tennessee last month, with some commentators arguing she should be reported to child protection services.

The dress – which is believed to be part of Vera Wang’s diffusion line, White by Vera Wang, costing anywhere from around $400 to $1400 – appears to have been altered to allow for the child to fit into the train of the dress.

The bride’s online posts maintained that her daughter was in no imminent danger.

‘Our 1 month old was awake and well secured on my train,’ ‘Most important while y’all got ya feelings in us we had our hearts in Christ which covers all!! Carter-Brooks wrote.

What’s your opinion? I’d like to hear it!

Bill Clinton, Gossip, Hilary 2016, Hilary Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, What she said

Remember Monica Lewinsky?


i.2.s-monica-lewinsky-vf-pr

Well….she’s back and running her mouth about her infamous affair with former president Bill Clinton.

“I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.”

Lewinsky said  “It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.” Guess she’s talking about the blue dress with President Clinton’s semen on it. Ugh!

Anywho…..After 10 years of virtual silence (“So silent, in fact,” she writes, “that the buzz in some circles has been that the Clinton’s must have paid me off; why else would I have refrained from speaking out? I can assure you that nothing could be further from the truth”),

Lewinsky, 40, says it is time to stop “tiptoeing around my past—and other people’s futures.” 

“I am determined to have a different ending to my story. I’ve decided, finally, to stick my head above the parapet so that I can take back my narrative and give a purpose to my past. (What this will cost me, I will soon find out.)”

Sounds like Monica knows that if Hillary Clinton is the Democratic front-runner in the 2016 Presidential election, her name along with her affair with the former president will be resurrected from the shallow grave of the past.

Lewinsky said her notoriety for years has hurt her ability to get the kind of job she wants. She said she interviewed for communications jobs but was often told she wasn’t “quite right” for the position, or was courted just to help companies get media attention.

Lewinsky revealed that she was “suicidal” during the height of the Clinton administration scandal, though never actually tried to kill herself. As for why she’s coming forward, she said she wants to “get involved with efforts on behalf of victims of online humiliation and harassment and to start speaking on this topic in public forums.”

You can read Lewinsky’s story in Vanity Fair.

Conversations Of A Sistah, What she said

Cyrus Webb invites… Author/Poet/Blogger Tracy Bell to “Conversations LIVE” 04/15 by Cyrus Webb | Entertainment Podcasts


cyrus_webb

Author/Poet/Blogger Tracy Bell returns to Conversations LIVE 04/15 by Cyrus Webb | Entertainment Podcasts.

Tune into “Conversations Live” on Tuesday April 15th at 8:00 PM as I will be the guest of Cyrus Webb’s online radio show as the Media Mogul (pictured here) discusses with me…

“My love affair with words and what it’s been like to share it with the world through my books, blog and now radio show “Conversations of a Sistah”.

As a bonus, I will share a piece with listeners from my soon to be released poetry book “These things”…the diary of a poet.

I look forward to being Mr. Webb’s guest and hope you’ll join us for the show.

Click the link here to access the show.