Two Things

First thing: Off the Wall

I've changed my mind (sort of). If you read my New Years blog you know I said I don't make New Years Resolutions because I resolve all of the time. And that's true. I am always on a PIP (Personal Imrpovement Project).

If you paid attention you probably noted a little saddness in my post. I was feeling a little blue that day. Part of my battle. Took a couple of days but I cycled out.

Anyway, I took a moment while I was 'in the weeds' to think about a few things and decided I will make a New years Resolution this year for no other reason than it couldn't hurt and I haven't done it before. New is good if it is a reach for better. (and yes, I know I said trying to be better was a part of my problem) but I had a case of the sads and i was thinking about it all wrong.

My New Year's Resoultion is to Get Off the Wall. My husband and I were talking about it. I'm like a soldier on the wall - guard duty. I live my life pressing watching worrying. My getting better resolution is to Get Off the Wall. I am not quite sure how I am going to do it but knowing I'm up on it is the first step.

Second Thing: Switching

I received a very interesting message from one of you who said that she liked my show because I didn't 'switch' It was an interesting and thoughful comment that's why I am bringing it up. (I love these kind of commentaries by the way - ones that make me think and are analytic in some way - Thank You) This woman said she was white and that she thought I kept it real on my show because I didn't switch from being black to white when I talked to different people. That I didn't change my speech patterns or language when I am talking to black or white people.

I don't know if I do or don't on my show. But I thought that was a great comment. I do 'switch' though. But I don't consider it so much a 'black/white' thing but a 'am I making myself clear' thing. I speak in whatever manner I believe will make myself understood and part of that means I evaluate my audience and speak in a manner that will touch them. On the show I am at home (that's how I feel anyway) and that's how I speak. But if I'm talking to someone who only watched CNN and would never watch a judge show and who only reads the Wall Street Journal I speak differently. I want to be persuasive. To do so I must speak the right language.

I know a lot of people have their 'in the house' dialect (for lack of a better word) and their 'at work' dialect. I know that sometimes black folk speak differently among themselves than when they speak in a mixed environment. I think I do depending on the circumstances.

So what do you guys think. Do you do it? Is that bad thing?