I worked on my novel this morning.
Now, for a writer, that’s generally not a profound statement. However, for someone like me who is in a constant, quiet frenzy juggling freelance assignments with due dates and not much pay, housework, mama-work, volunteering, more housework, more mama-work, and a novel and non-fiction book projects that might pay […]
The gender and age of the defendants shouldn’t matter. What they are accused of doing–and appear to have actually done–is despicable. And […]
What do you get when you cross presenting your girl-children with role models and icons who look like them, with home decorating?
The Sheroes Project.
Motivated by Maj. Kimbrell and by the desire to decorate BabyGirl’s new Big Girl bedroom, I’ve decided to collect images, preferably but not exclusively black and white, of black sheroes to frame, […]
“Every Day, She Breaks More Than the Sound Barrier”
Maj. Kimbrell is the USAF’s first black female fighter pilot.
Hat tip to Harry Allen, the Media Assassin
So tonight was the last night of my zumba class. Previously, I confessed to a serious lack of coordination. The class hasn’t done much to change that, but I am quite proud of the fact that I was able to do all the moves, most of them well (body rolls, for example, are […]
from Yahoo! News
by Justin Cole […]
NYC has everything. One minute you’re in a comfy apartment in Park Slope snuggled up with a friend’s 8-day-old daughter, drunk on her new baby smell, monopolizing all her time; the next minute, you’re popping champagne in celebration of a good girlfriend’s forty-something birthday at Boucarou, a restaurant/lounge where West Africa meets the East […]
Yes, that would be U.S. Congressman John Conyers’ wife.
UPDATE: But it doesn’t look like the good citizens of Motown are going to take Kwame’s shenanigans lying down.
So tired, that I’m not even going to summarize here. I just encourage you to check out the current discussion at AntiRacistParent: You are Not Safe, Mi’Ja
Shame on you, Mr. Mayor
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is no martyr.
from the Seattle Times
Dear Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick:
So it’s a black thing? Not a sleaze thing, not a betrayal of the public trust thing, not a breaking the law thing? Just a black thing?
This would seem to be the message of the recent rally thrown […]
