During this joyous Christmas 2016 season, I was blessed with the opportunity to screen the new film Hidden Figures; an upcoming biographical story based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. The movie, set in 1961 Virginia, stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the black woman physicist, space scientist, and mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. The movie has a powerful

I'm back...from what you may ask. I'm back to myself! We all get caught up from time to time focusing on the things in our lives that are really trivial. We tend to get wrapped up in our feelings and allowing those feelings to dictate how we operate on a day to day business. Feelings are real, valid, and called for, but a rational evaluation of those feelings is of the utmost importance. It is human nature to have a reaction to the things that happen around you, that reac