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The Dirty South ...the REAL SOUTH....I See It

Band of StepBrothers and Me

So over the past month of April 2012 I had a ball meeting so many people in South Arkansas! It has been quite an experience actually. Something I have longed to do I am getting a chance to do and that is learn the people here and learn all about the different ways that people work, play and live in the part of the country.
Now mind you I have been here for several years but only recently decided that maybe just maybe I would give the people in this area a shot. Hey I was no walk in the park either. Evidently the reason why I was still here was because the lesson that I needed to learn was still out there for me to learn. So with out hesitation I came from out of my shell and stumbled a great way to meet people.
If I am not on the air I get to hang out and have fun with people who listen to me every single day!
Here is the cool part. Sometimes I can be standing in line at a clothing or grocery store and I hear listeners talk about what I said the day before. I never let on I am she, well...... the one they are listening to right now at this moment or have listened to the day before that made them smile, dance a jig or tolerate their jobs just a little bit more.
I realized not long ago maybe even this morning  that the therapy that I needed may well be in the people that I chose not to get to know until recently. It has been a joy and a wonder to communicate with them, learn about them.
It has been an experience to be included in the carnivals, parades, pageants and other events that make this area South Arkansas. THIS IS THE REAL DERTTY SOUTH.
Four wheelers, real dirt, cattle, horses, feeding cows bread that is just too old to feed your family, church programs til you drop, gossip and more gossip, prudes, prima donnas, chopped and screwed music, racial divides that have made me cry. I have seen it all and heard it all since I have lived here. I am beginning to realize this was the experience I needed and asked for in some regard.

Daddy & Me

My father was born and raised in South Arkansas. I wanted to be near my dad so here I am and along the way I learned alot about my family and who I really am. This was a journey I had to take. Along the way I have met some amazing people. AMAZING!
I spent more time with family here in Arkansas and Louisiana. I encourage anyone that has not had the chance and that can have access to family, learn who you are.
This journey of my life has been the best part of being me for once. That is saying a lot.
Now I know the lingo here, the culture here, the people here and they know me. My family has embraced me and offered me more knowledge about who I am and where we  came from. Who owned us and who sold us, where we were educated and the history we made along the way. Wow. That is all I can say.
I appreciate the fact that I finally decided to stop fighting the fact that even though I was born and raised in the North, my roots are here RIGHT HERE ......in the deep down dirty South.

See you on the Air!

Y've

Cheep Peep S'mores

So last night I decided to have some fun with the children. Imani is on her way to Senior prom, the house was full of teenagers abuzz with the excitement of what Saturday evening is going to bring them. I'm just a background product. I'm just Mother and nothing more. SIGH.....
So for relief from how it feels to no longer be the number one person in my child's life as she slips into adulthood, I reach for what I know she used to love and ME? I hated. Peeps.
A trip to the Dollar General Store where we live offers up a great array of clearance items to make any sweet tooth scream with excitement. I found a basket of Easter Items that were on clearance complete with Easter Baskets, chocolate, grass, toys and pink and blue peeps. Oh it was oh so wonderful to see them because it brought back wonderful memories of a chubby Imani begging me to buy Peeps and bring them home. Yellow ones, blues ones, pink or purple she wanted them and would devour them before the day was out. Marshmallows are a sinful treat she enjoyed when it was just she and I and a trip to a local store depending on where we lived.
So this evening I stood in the kitchen after my trip to the dollar store and decided that since the peeps would not sit long before they would age more, why not just make s'mores? How cute would that be?....and she could share them with her friends who were over as well.
Simple recipe really.
Graham Crackers, only the best chocolate, and peeps. I simply assembled them as KJ, Lili and Anthony ate peeps by the handfuls. (They WERE only 37 cents by the way) I simply placed them in the oven at about 350 degrees and waited for the chocolate and marshmallow peeps to melts down. EASY PEASY!


The finished products was so pretty! They screamed in that Peep voice "Eat me! Enjoy my soft, mushy goodnes! I've got that chocolatey smoothness you love you know you want me."
I served the little ones on small saucers and watched my kitchen counter and floor become the color of chocolate. Lovely.
All of a sudden here come the crew of "I think I'm grown adults teenagers preparing for prom at my home"
They love s'mores, they are still five year olds at heart. I look at them and remember when they were all tiny people in elementary school, junior high and all of their activities. High school and a teen age pregnancy for one and they are still close. Now Anthony has tons of Tee Tee's and Uncles standing right here with him enjoying the same thing he loves. Something sweet and comforting that expresses in this simple act by the oldest thing in the room,......I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU.

Til Next Time On The Air


Y've 

Y've Kemp Jammin On The One

Hey everyone I'm going to be combining all kinds of music soon to make for a great mix of all of the music I love listening to. From techno to country, rock, pop and everything in between to get you started on your day with the morning prep Jammin on the one!

See ya later!

Y've


Check out Jammin' On The One With Y've Kemp as she preps you for the day!

Jammin' On The One

My first broadcast just goofin around.......gotta love social media.




I think I am going to like this!

See you around the way and on the corner....


Y've

My Only Constant

So in the midst of everything that is going on in my life right now I learned that in order to be better I have to BE better. That's kind of hard to explain but I think every once in a while we all come to that place in our lives where we know we can no longer be where we are.
Now that can be a lot of places. It can be where you live, where you work, where you worship, where you hang out and commune with others. It can mean a lot of things.
Here is the aggravation is all of this. You cannot make this be about anyone else but you. Let me explain. Let's say that you are in a circle of people and you are all dealing with issues of one level of drama or another. Well you have to look at you and no one else. This is your journey, not theirs and guess what their journey belongs to them. This is not a race to the finish line. This is just plain old life and as long as you are living you will live life.
Right now I am kind of preaching to myself as I watch others live their lives the way they chose and I live mine the way I chose mine. I am seeking this turning point right now that will be my signal for change or signal for something new to be seen or occur in my life.
So of course in the midst of it all comes these questions that plays in my head over and over....."You are too old for change, you are a mom you can't just pick up and keep moving, get somewhere and sit your behind down, why can't you be happy with where you are right now and not rock the boat? Things are good. Who do you think you are trying to make changes to your life, be glad that you have what you have and you are able to do the things that you are doing."
Yeah ok so I hear those things and yes I understand that maybe a scared me would react by going somewhere and sitting down. But you know what  the true me, the me that is the fighter the one that wants only the best for me is going to keep rearing her head and saying this "I deserve the best I want in my life for me and my family, so what if I want a great relationship with someone that wants to be with me, so what if I want a great, rewarding career and all of the things that come along with that. You know what yes I want to stay in a career field that I love and make it work for me so what! I deserve what ever experience that I so desire and its ok for me to want that!"
So I am doing something called deliberate creation. I want to create the new world I want to live in and I want to be clear on what it will be. So I am grabbing my pen, my crayons, my stickers, my markers, my glue, my thoughts and imagination and making a deliberate attempt to make a change in my life by being creative in my mind first.
I'm on this mindless banter right now that once I am done typing this at four in the morning will make sense to probably no one but me....and that is ok...sometimes you just have to talk to yourself to get you to the next level of your life or maybe just to get through the day itself. Or just that moment.
Give me some credit ......my only constant that keeps me grounded is this...CHANGE....

I am grateful to know that it too comes.






Be easy,

Y've

Come Meet Me at the HogSkin Holidays and Liz Choate This Should Be Fun!

I get a chance to meet Liz Choate of The History Channel's "Swamp People" this weekend!
How cool is that.
I think Liz is one bad chick is all I can say.
If you happen to be in the South Arkansas area I will be out with the Y95 Road Gang hanging out at the Hogskins Festival in Hampton, Arkansas Friday April 13 from 11am-1pm and later that evening at the Rodeo beginning at 6:30 Ill come back that Saturday the 14th to hang out again and talk with Liz and the Y95 listeners live and in person!
This is what I suggest. If you have nothing to do at all you need to make a point to come and hang out with me, Yve Kemp and the Y95 Road Gang while we broadcast live from the HogSkin Festival! This is going to be a lot of fun. Think about it, there is a parade, food, tons of activities for everyone in the family and loads of SOOOOOWIEEEE!
I so hope to see you guys there with me Yve Kemp and the Y95 Road Gang this weekend! 

Manic Monday

In the middle of a massive decision to change your life and all that you think you know, life has to continue so you can hold up the life that you have right now. I know I know you are probably thinking, "Well Y've how in the hell am I supposed to do that?"
You are probably wondering how you can keep the pace of right now until you get to the next level that you are desiring.
It's easy really.
Live two lives! How about that? The mind is what creates every moment in your life. What you are physically living right now is only what you thought about before hand. Think about it. You created the physical world you are living in right now with a desire and a passion so strong that you eventually began to see your world look like what you wanted it to be. Now let's be clear no matter WHAT YOU THOUGHT OR BELIEVED, YOU ARE LIVING THAT REALITY RIGHT NOW.
Welp sorry guys I know that's kind of hard for you to swallow right now but if you think about it you can look back at things you said over and over or thought or believed about you and your life that caused you to be where you are right now.
Now here is the lovely part and the best about that.
Live two lives. Live one in the physical and in your mind all at the same time. Oh yeah you can do it. Imagination is the key. You know the thing your friends, mom and dad told you was a joke. Stop day dreaming and do something? Well now you have permission to START DAYDREAMING and do something!
It only takes about 15 minutes a day to do it too. All you have to is be clear in what you want. Seriously now you have to know beyond a shadow of a doubt what it is you want and take time to deliberately focus on that particular desire. Now here is the interesting part. Science has proven that when you focus on a thing is begins to line up with what you are focusing on as the observer. Well  shoot that kinda sounds like prayer doesn't it? Hmmm Well call it what you want but give it a focus. You will be deliberate in your desire.
Give your focus exercise just 15 minutes per day. Maybe in the morning when you get up or while you are relaxing in a hot bath or having lunch alone think on what you want and focus on that. Just focus. Nothing more at this point.
Allow your manic Monday the first day of the week to be the beginning of something wonderful for you.
You are only required to think on this. Create the world you want in your mind. Decorate your world the way that you want and enjoy this process. Because I guarantee you, what you think will become your next reality.

I dare you to to try it.

Enjoy your Monday!

Y've

Renewal, Rebirth, Awakening and Getting Up

So the time is here. Each day I get up has been a blessing since the beginning of the new beginning. Mmm for those that don't know today is the day by DATE that I woke up from being in a coma for two months three years ago.
I know because I remember thinking when I woke up, "Mmmmm Timeka's birthday is this week I only have five days to get her something". That was after I remember falling back into my body.
Each and every one of us gets up eventually. Someway, somehow we get up and we move to the next levels in our lives.
Some how we keep rolling on to the next change in our existence.
That's what happened to me that day when I woke up with that tube in my throat and on the side of my neck helping me breathe. Today is the day I had my rebirth and a time to start over.
People tell me the one thing that I kept saying over and over before I had emergency surgery was "My kids, my kids I have to be here for my kids" and then I would black out again.
I can remember my follow up visit...the oncologist, my general practitioner and the physician's assistant on my case all came in in to me when I returned. Each one said there was no way that I should be alive, all of my organs had shut down. I was dead. Period. A very sick woman they said.
One said very bluntly "You are not supposed to be here". Of course I knew better.
I knew the real truth. I knew that I was and am supposed to be here with the challenges ahead of me as the contrast to help me continue to make the changes I want in my life.
I am not Jesus Christ. I could not begin to know nor understand what He went through as He was persecuted for crimes He did not commit, or how He died for a world of people that did not know about Him nor did many care. But He did.
What I CAN say is I know what it is like to keep living and come back from a place of such beauty and peace and love and joy for the PASSION AND LOVE that you have for your children.
I know some of you may not believe in the "Resurrection" and that is ok by me. What I know now is that we all have a chance at our own "Resurrection" if we accept it. If we accept that change must happen in our lives and that sitting down is not an option for life to be better.
My renewal happened again two years later as I fought kicking and screaming into something that I asked for. I asked to be happy. What I didn't know was that it meant some people in my life had to go and when that happened I hurt all over and thought I was dying but I didn't. I woke up to live another day and keep going.
This year I woke up today and realized that yet again I am not the same person that It was LAST year this time. Again another rebirth has occurred in my life and I love it and appreciate the lesson in knowing that I too have had an awakening. I have come to realize that today I will celebrate Easter this day of recognizing how Jesus Christ died for the sins of a world that did know Him at the time, have a chance at life because of what He did. I will celebrate by celebrating MY OWN awakening. Where am I now? What do I do now that I am alive and awake and aware that I did not think I was going to ever do?
I am grateful for this chance to find out.

See Ya Next Time,

Y've

Change Is The Only Constant

Remember when you were like this nerdy trying to be cool teenager who wanted to believe that the guy or girl that you were sharing spit with was going to be the only person in your life that you would ever love?
Remember when you were in college and you thought that life would always be about the yard and about the parties and the times in class with the professor that talked like a drone and made you doze?
Remember when you found the perfect job and wanted to make it a career choice and you just knew that you would be there until retirement...well that is until you woke up and realized that you couldn't stand the woman in the cubicle next to you.
What about that church you thought would be the one to bury you cold body....and you lasted a year and decided that learning how to tap into your chakras would be better?
Oh wow life is all about change. I love the fact that we are always learning and growing and changing.
Now here comes the funny part....if life is all about change....why are we so afraid of the one thing in life that is guaranteed?
Food for thought on Easter Day

Update!

So I thought I would post quickly about how my plan from the beginning of 2012 was going.
Well I pulled the old credit report. You know what it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. You have to be able to take a look at it every once in a while. So I went to this website called "CreditKarma" and had my credit report pulled for all three credit reporting agencies. The best part about that was I looked at them all with a fine toothed comb and was able to accept what was on there and make a plan to clean it up.
Oh yes I said it....my credit needs some work and I am willing to make the plans necessary to clean it up.
Credit Karma suggests that you take time to review your report and seek out any discrepancies along with anything that you find may not be yours. They also suggest if you need to rebuild that you do so with paying off some accounts and possibly obtaining a new line of credit on a secured credit card if you need to to increase your credit score.
That was number one on my things to do list for the year. I don't want to get into it too deep but I suggest you check out and see for yourself where you are. You even get a free FICO score and who couldn't use that right now?
I also wanted to make sure that I looked into increasing the amount of sources of income that I have right now. Ok so I went through a list of things I can still do to increase my streams of income and you know what? I can still do them. Methodically an add them to what I am working on right now without it affecting a work day or other things I have going on. More on that later.
Me taking care of myself? Oh please yes the one simple thing that I did was I started eating. How easy was that? I just starting eating a simple five small meals per day. I just started packing a lunch with all of my meals in it and making sure that I ate breakfast before I let the house in the morning. Now how easy is that? I stopped drinking all sodas and eliminated sugar except the occasional soda which I can never seem to finish. I also joined a team in my current city of residence called "Camden's Biggest Loser".
Meeting new friends. Well seems to me that what is happening is I am learning who my real friends are and the fake ones are. I actually thought this would be hard to do but it wasn't. I thought I was going to be upset or hurt at the transition but I believe in my older age I simply want peace and silly things people do don't matter much to me. I just want to be happy with all that I am right now with friends, family, children, work that is cool for now. I'm still alive and the right situation will make itself available eventually.
I am going to this weekend to hang out again in my favorite spot in Hot Springs, Arkansas with a dear friend so I can teach her how to relax and chill out. Right now you guys.....that's the most important thing....CHILLIN OUT...anyone wanna join me?
Ok
Let's stop the world and get off .....just for a moment.

Y've