Decisions, decisions.

You make three dozen of them every day: get up, or hit the Snooze? Cereal or waffles? This outfit or that one, in which color? Lunch in or out, sandwiches or salad, fix dinner or order take-out, and what’s on TV that’s good?

You make so many decisions each day that you barely notice doing it. But what if you couldn’t decide on the biggest issue of your life? In the new novel, “Torn Between Two Lovers” by Carl Weber, the impossible-to-make choice may rip apart several lives.

Leon Farrow is having problems.

Dear Gwendolyn:

I am sick of the unfairness being done to poor people. This is the problem: Six years ago my daughter (now age 32) applied for a small business loan. To date, she still has not been approved. She has applied each year for the loan.

I taught my children not to work for others but instead start their own. I have a 40-year-old son who also tried to get a business loan and gave up. He also applied year after year but nothing was approved. I find this practice to be unfair. Other people are getting the loans and we are being overlooked.

During a time when only 2 percent of Blacks in Pittsburgh held any of the 30,000 craft union construction jobs during the Pittsburgh’s Renaissance in the 1970s, Nate Smith emerged as a leader to change the staggering statistics on construction sites.

NATE SMITH

The film, “What Does Trouble Mean? Nate Smith’s Revolution,” explores this issue in Pittsburgh’s history and gives us insight to the man who laid in front of a bulldozer in order to change the face of construction in this city.

The film is featured during the 29th Annual Three Rivers Film Festival that opened Nov. 5. The film will run again Nov. 13 at 2 p.m. at the Harris Theater, 809 Liberty Ave.

Dr. Laura’s use of the N-word, the Chilean Miners Rescue, and the Black man’s struggle were just some of the topics that comedian DL Hughley talked about during his three-night run at the Pittsburgh Improv Oct. 28-30.

Dressed in a black pinstripe suit and sporting a cigar and a glass of red wine, Hughley had the audience cracking up throughout his 45-minute set.

D. L. HUGHLEY