Why are there so many instances where people behave badly on airplanes?

Part of the answer is in the poor design of airports.

Why behavioral psychologists should be a part of any large building design.

A thread. Most people will rise to your lowest expectation of them.
When travelers enter an airport - typically they are in a heightened state. Worried they will miss their flight. Worried they forgot to pack something.
Parking garages, tunnels & the unfamiliar environment make this worse.

How much money is racism costing your company?

I was talking with a girlfriend yesterday.
She just completely remodeled her kitchen & was telling me about her experience at a granite/stone showroom when she was pricing solid surface materials for countertops. My friend is a black woman who owns a very successful business. She has an amazing eye for design. Her house is impeccably stylish - and her kitchen was going to be the shining gemstone of her home.

To set off her kitchen, she had a vision for the solid surface counter-tops.

Today I had a productive “uncomfortable conversation.”
A neighbor whom I have known for 30 years - asked me why I had a “Black Lives Matter” sign in my yard, when black people continue to “murder each other every day in the city, and clearly black lives don’t matter to ‘them.’” After I informed him that I was black (I’m very light-skinned - please see pic) - I asked him, “Why do white men continue to massacre people in: supermarkets, churches, schools, concerts and clubs repeatedly? And what was the white community doing about it?”

Then he got a lesson

In #Roc NY - we have this FANTASTIC park called Highland Park. In 1854 George Ellwanger & Patrick Barry owned the largest nursery in the world!
They donated 150 acres of their nursery to the City of Rochester to create a park all could enjoy. They donated lots of plants too! They donated funds for a Children’s Pavilion - because they believed children needed fresh air to be healthy!

Time for the 4th #Roc based #Ghost story.
And this time it’s personal. Nowadays, everyone knows what a Medium does.
A Medium is someone who communicates with the dead directly.
But back in the 1800’s direct communication with the dead had been largely unheard of.

That is, until the Fox Sisters - Leah, Kate and Maggie.

By popular demand folks have requested that my 3rd #Roc based #Ghost story be about Corn Hill hauntings.

For those who don’t know about Corn Hill. It is one of Rochester’s first neighborhoods. Home to some of Rochester’s most notable & affluent people. The first homes in Corn Hill were built in the early 1800’s.
Large, palatial & well appointed these were the homes of Nathaniel Rochester, Jonathan Child (the first Mayor), the Fox Sisters (noted spiritualists) and the Selden family, developers of Western Union & other inventions

Since it is October & 2020 sucks.
I will try to provide #Roc based #GhostStories to entertain y’all.

In #BrightonNY on Friday September 21, 1951 a terrible tragedy struck two of our most beautiful neighborhoods, which resulted in the current ghost story I will tell.

Buckle up. Friday September 21, 1951 was a beautiful warm day.
As such - many people were outside.
Mowing lawns.
Tending to gardens.
Housewives decided to get their shopping done.
Most children were in school.

When people say “Slavery was hundreds of years ago. Why are we still talking about it?”

They are technically correct.

But I am 56 years old, and my Great-Grandmother was born a slave.

Let me tell you about Lucinda Christmas Fitts Lynch - and how slavery DID NOT end in 1863. In 1863 the Civil War “ended” and Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves via the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution.

This is a picture of the home my Mom & Dad bought in 1967 with money my dad earned working in Alaska.
Banks wouldn’t lend my parents money because they were black.
They couldn’t buy an existing house because of deed restrictions.
So they had this home built in Liverpool, NY. This photo was taken during the first Easter in our home.
I’m on the far left in the green coat. From left to right is me, my Mom, my Aunt Stephanie, my sister Suzette, my Uncle Roland, my cousin Jimmy, my cousin Johnny and my cousin David.

Why am I, a devout Catholic woman - who goes to church every Sunday - Pro-Choice?

I love life.
I believe life starts at conception.
I would never have an abortion - even if I sacrificed my own life for the baby.
Rape.
Incest.
Death.

I would choose to have the child. So - why don’t I support the “Pro-Life” political stance????!!

Because - it is not pro-life.

There is a “War on Christmas”!

But it has nothing to do with whether or not someone says “Merry Christmas.”

It has nothing to do with Santa Claus, or buying gifts.

It doesn’t have anything to do with Christmas decorations. The “War on Christmas “ has to do with if we are being good Christians.

Do we do as Jesus taught us?

Do we welcome the stranger?

Do we feed the hungry?

Do we clothe the naked?

Do we visit the imprisoned?

If we don’t do these things - then we are warring against Christmas.

Here are my tips if you win the @MegaMillion Billion tonight:

1. Get a lawyer & wait until the excitement settles down - then come forward. Keep your identity secret.

2. After you get the money - put $1M in my checking account & send relatives/friends $1M anonymously 3. Call your relatives - ask them “Did you win the Lotto? Cause I just got a million dollars sent to me anonymously - this will throw them off the scent.

4. Set up Trust funds for your kids so they get the money when they hit 30.

Okay.
Here is a thread about why #Kavanaugh most likely doesn’t remember what happened with Dr. Ford, and why the #MeToo movement will make sure this never happens again. It’s 1985 and a friend of mine has just secured a job as a receptionist/bookkeeper position at a small family owned law firm. The father is the head of the firm. He has two sons who work for him.

Why I think #Kavanaugh is lying:
1. Dr. Ford's sessions with a therapist where she named him and the boys with him happened six years ago. 2. Brett Kavanaugh's calendar proves he went to parties with Mark Judge and P.J. - Dr. Ford named these two men BEFORE his calendar was made public. If she didn't "hang in the same circles" as Brett Kavanaugh, how would she know this?

This is a thread about how institutional racism works.

In the 1950’s SUNY schools & community colleges offered FREE tuition to local students. My mother-in-law, who is white, took advantage of this program and received her degree from SUNY Buffalo in Speech Therapy. When my father graduated from high school, he was not told of the opportunity for free tuition because black students were routinely not informed of the opportunity for a free college education.