Black Domestic Goddess

“Set it and Forget it” Affiliate Marketing with Squidoo.

For those of you who read my blog on a regular basis, you know that I am a stay at home mom, business owner and writer. I love new and interesting things, especially those that have the potential to make money!

Squidoo is one of the places where I use my skill as a writer to generate some extra income. However, using Squidoo as a money maker takes both skill as well as trial and error. Fortunately, my online colleague, I.C. Jackson, has created an e-book that may assist in creating more revenue on a Squidoo lens. It’s called “Squidoo Harvest”.

What I like best about the book description is that it tells you that hard work is needed at first, but once you put the work into the lens, it’s done! It’s not a “get rich quick” scheme, and Ms. Jackson doesn’t promise $8000.00 in your first day, as you have read in numerous sales pages.

Squidoo Harvest may be exactly what you need to increase your revenue on Squidoo!

She was dubbed the “most exciting woman in the world” by Orson Welles, and it showed throughout her 60 year career. I know I personally loved watching her try to outwit Adam West’s Batman. Though she never won (none of the villains every did, imagine that) she certainly went about her “evil” deeds in Gotham City with true savoir-faire.

Talk about a doll! Eartha Kitt was a true example of grace, class, and dare I say it, a sexy black woman. She was the BEST Catwoman and I suspect, would have been wicked with a bull whip. (Michelle Pfieffer, you were cute, but never exuded any sexy vibes, sorry chica!) Even her rendition of “Santa Baby” was both sultry and cute at the same time, unlike Madonna’s version, which reeked of the “trying too hards”. But that’s neither here or there. Eartha Kitt was truly one of a kind – in my opinion, no female actress has the versatility or simple presence that Ms. Kitt had.

She was a singer, a dancer and actress back when those label actually meant something. She was a dancer for the Katharine Dunham troupe and acted and sang on stage, television and movies. Active well into her 70s, as the “femme fatale” in the movie Boomerang and as Agatha Plummer, the spoiled rich lady in “Harriet the Spy” she still retained the elegance of her earlier years.

Ah, the end of an era! I suppose I’ve got the parent syndrome. The actors and actresses whom I remember watching as I grew up are dying off on me and unfortunately, not being replaced!

Eartha did not bite her tongue, even daring to tell LBJ (President Johnson, to you younger ones out there….you know, the president after President Kennedy, JFK…..no, he didn’t die in a plane crash—but I digress) her opinion about the war in Vietnam, which was not favorable in the least. Though she was blacklisted from performing for a time in the US, like many black performers, she found work overseas until she was able to perform again in the United States.

One of my favorite Eartha Kitt quotations: “I don’t carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it’s the general public that made (me) — not any one particular group. So I don’t think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.”

Rrrrrrrrrest in peace Ms. Kitt.

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