Please stop into LaRuelist Café today @5 pm and participate in the chat between Jeannine LaRue and Mary Anne Darling Wasilewski, Founder and Administrator of Fun Loving (No Politics) Lesbians. So many unique projects evolved out of the 2020 pandemic as the world went from predominantly in-person events to virtual contact. Company meetings, governmental services, family gatherings, and…yes…hospital visits suddenly were occurring over Zoom, Facetime, or other social platforms. Love connections, networking, and intimacy also found its way through virtual platforms as COVID-19 caused so many folks to feel isolated and out of the loop. In the midst of this new norm, Mary Anne Darling Wasilewski decided to start a social FB group for lesbians called Fun Loving (No Politics) Lesbians. That group started with about 300 women and has grown to well over 30,000!!! I was invited to join this group in November with great trepidation because I couldn’t imagine anything being fun without politics. And…while I had been in a same-sex relationship for over two decades, I didn’t think of myself as a lesbian. Well…FLNPL has been one of the highlights of my pandemic so far. I’ve been introduced to parts of the world, fascinating books, national and international women, and what I believe will be lifetime friends through this FB group. This discussion will be a treat!!! Hope to see you there!

Are you a small, woman, or minority-owned New Jersey business? If so, this 8-minute message is directed at you! The Pro-NJ Grantor Trust is accepting Expressions of Interest now throughout March 5th. If you think you may be both interested or qualify, please go up on the website: www.njprotrust.org, download the form and apply. This could be an AMAZING opportunity for you.

The Pro-NJ Grantor Trust is a privately funded, $15 M trust fund established by Orsted with the goal of assisting small, women, minority business owners to retool their businesses to participate in the wind industry.

Please don’t miss this very emotional, riveting story at 5:30 pm today livestream on FB and YouTube! Today, LaRuelist Café will speak with Teska Frisby, author, mother, community activist, and public relations specialist. Teska and her husband, Samuel Frisby had unsuccessfully attempted numerous times to have a child. After many heartbreaks and miscarriages, God blessed this couple with a baby boy who didn’t arrive as a bouncing baby boy. Teska was less than seven months pregnant. That little baby boy was 1 ½ lbs at birth and diagnosed with cerebral palsy. While many would have viewed this as a dire situation, Teska and Sam saw it as a blessing, as an opportunity to approach life differently, as an actual miracle from God. That young baby, Pastor Sam as we call him, will be 20 years old this year. An ordained minister, Sam is visionary and very perceptive. He’s humorous yet profound. Sam’s life journey prompted Teska to author the book, Different, Just Like You. She realized early on that some folks, mostly adults, looked at Sam as different from them. Teska, in her wise way of looking at life, pointed out that we’re all unique…we’re all different…even Sam is DIFFERENT, JUST LIFE YOU!

Pls join us tonight February 8 @6 pm on LaRuelist Cafe as we speak with three amazing women running Elect Women NJ. Elect Women NJ launched in 2020 and is dedicated to increasing the numbers of women in local elected offices. Elect Women NJ co-hosted an event for Vice President Kamala Harris with the Electing Women’s Alliance that raised more than 5 million for the campaign. They will host an event on Feb 11, 2021 to honor all elected women who are the first but not the last.

Most of us can agree that the 2020-2021 pandemic has been tough on many of us. Some of us have lost family members, close friends, and colleagues from COVID-19. Many of us feel that we’ve lost the freedom we once knew to move about, travel, celebrate holidays, and even work from our real offices. But…some folks have actually gained something that has put smiles on their faces, songs in their hearts, and gleam in their eyes…ROMANCE…LOVE…a new RELATIONSHIP! Today at 5 pm LaRuelist Café will feature two AMAZING women…Hilarie Weilah and Beth Anderson… who joined a new FB group founded in August, 2020 called Fun-Loving (NO POLITICS) Lesbians. That group started out small and has grown to over 28,000 members with many individuals morphing their light-hearted conversations with tens of thousands of women into one-on-one phone calls to private FaceTimes to ultimately in-person visits that’s changed their FB status from single to “in a relationship.” Hilarie and Beth will tell their marvelous journey that brought New Orleans, Lousiana and Orlando, Florida together as they now find themselves totally in love and adjusting to what was a world of one to now a world of “in a relationship.”

January 20, 2021 starts a new era...ALL we want is PEACE! Yes...there will bumps along the way and rugged mountains to climb. But, we are looking forward to respect, dignity, TRUE patriotism...and peace!

Please stop by LaRuelist Café Tuesday, December 29 @3 pm to be inspired about the work that Youth Villages and Janie’s Fund is doing for young men and women throughout the country. Janie’s Fund is the brainchild of rock legend and Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler, along with Youth Villages, has opened two Janie’s Houses…one in Atlanta and Memphis. However, the focus of this show will be the LifeSet program which has helped more than 20,000 young people who have aged out of foster care. I will be joined by Richard P. Shaw, II who is Chief Development Officer at Youth Villages. Trust me when I tell you that you do not want to miss this program on Tuesday @3 pm. The stories are inspiring, hopeful, and helps restore faith in humankind for sure.