“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

I know what you must be thinking and I was thinking the same thing. How is it that Oprah’s mother is having problems paying anything, especially her bills?

Vernita Lee has allegedly rolled up a $150K bill since 2004 at a Brookfield, Wi. clothing boutique — and hasn’t paid it back. So now the store, Valentina, is trying to get its money the hard way — in court. The store’s attorney tells the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel the Oprah-ma hasn’t been making minimum monthly payments of $2,000 for some time. TMZ

Her daughter is a billionaire and gives away cars to a studio full of people and her mom has a $150,000 bill that is not being paid. Come on O, you can dig that out of your couch cushions. Thoughts?

Let me just start this one with a take me higher lord! The Queen of Media, Oprah Winfrey, gave the commencement speech to 4,000 Stanford University graduates. During that speech she told them to remember that money isn’t everything.

“Money is pretty nice,” she continued. “I like money. It’s good for buying things. But having a lot of money does not automatically make one a successful person. What you want is money and meaning — you want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.”

I’ll tell you what, let’s test that theory and tomorrow she should deposit $50 million in my account. Thoughts?

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On Friday, Oprah had her annual Favorite Things of The Summer episode and Mary J. Blige’s new album Growing Pains won the award for best summer cd! Check out Mary’s amazing performance of her new single Stay Down. This performance is simply amazing! Watch!

Love muffins it looks as if Mariah Carey could possibly come forward on the May 7th episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show to put our wondering minds at ease about her rumored marriage to Nick Cannon!

It’s the week in review, and viewers are speaking out about anything and everything—the Tom Cruise interview, Barbara Walters’s bombshell, Mariah Carey’s wedding shocker and more! Then, Dr. Oz explains how David Blaine broke records, and we’ll get an update from Dr. Randy Pausch on his “last lecture.”

Watch the preview on Oprah.com and be sure to tune in tomorrow!

If having her own talk show, radio show, part owner of Oxygen, and changing lives over in Africa for thousands of people wasn’t enough… Oprah has gone and bought her own Television Network! OWN — for Oprah Winfrey Network — will debut next year in nearly 70 million homes with cable and satellite, part of a deal announced Tuesday with Discovery Communications. It will replace the Discovery Health network. The announcement builds a media empire that already includes the top-rated TV talk show, a magazine, a satellite radio network, a Web site, and TV movies made under her banner.

“This is an evolution of what I’ve been able to do every day,” Winfrey said. “I will now have the opportunity to do this 24 hours a day on a platform that goes on forever.”

Love muffins, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? Do you think this will be TOO much Oprah or are you excited about the new network! Please, Let me know!