Women can't do everything at the same time we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

New Orleans more than many places I know actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth marriage death. It's our culture.

Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

'Avatar' is the greatest most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology and tremendous imagination making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.

For me Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

I look forward to a time in the not so distant future when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

As life runs on the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change Neath every one a friend.