Up On The Soul Train Stage

Thanks to everyone who voted for me to win the Soul Train Award for Best Soul Site. It meant so much to me because I watched so many award shows as a kid but never in a million years thought I would be accepting one of my own one day. Especially as a blogger! Wow! AJ Calloway presented the award to me during the pre-show which airs before the show and I was a big ball of emotions. You can read my personal message and thank you’s here

After that was all said and done, I had a sigh of relief while thinking to myself ‘Well Thank God I don’t have to go up on the stage in front of all those people”. I had on a pair of heel less Giuseppes and I had only practiced going up and down a set of stairs, maybe two times so whether I could walk up on stage without tripping was questionable.
Since I had gotten the hard part out of the way before the show began, my anxiety calmed itself down and I got situated in my seat so that I could enjoy the rest of the show. Not more than 15 minutes into the show, the Awards Show Staff came out of nowhere and told me to hurry out of my seat. When I tell you, I had the look of fear in my eyes, …I could have fainted right there. The only thing I kept thinking was ‘I gotta go on stage? oh no !!!!”.
Within minutes, I was whisked back stage and handed a script and 15 minutes later, I found myself standing on stage with Morris Day, Jerome Benton and Jimmy Jam. It all happened so very fast that I can’t tell you what happened or if I made a complete fool of myself. LOL.