So, Tech Boo and I are together for a couple of weeks with four of our girls (ages 4 1/2, 9 1/2, 9 1/2, and almost-12). I’m not exaggerating when I say that, on average, we only manage to sneak in about 17 seconds of alone time each day (not counting when we are in […]
…holding someone’s infant and saying, “She’s beautiful, generally speaking. But I do think a bonnet would help distract from that gi-normous dome of hers. And those ears…”
Polite, tactful people don’t say things like this, of course. But when you share your writing, or any art, with someone for feedback, it really is […]
Last month, I had the pleasure of hearing Anne Lamott speak and read from her latest book, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith. That evening, she read from one of the book’s early chapters, “Wailing Wall.” In this chapter, she recounts a Sunday school class she taught to a group of rambunctious young boys […]
Writing on her brother site, The Secret Council of American Negroes, The Black Snob takes a tongue-in-cheek jab at the situation some marriage-minded-but-single black women face (“Reviving the Brand.”)
2 grown-ups
2 states
240 miles apart
1 airline plus
Unlimited cell phone minutes
plus 2 trusting hearts
Equal a 2nd chance at love
1 Spring Break
5 daughters
4, 9, 9, 11, 11
3 biological
1 adopted
1 borrowed
all loved
1 mini-van, also borrowed,
swapped with 1 ex, mine
Numerous people asking, “How DO you do it????
Zero bitterness?”
Zero interest in doing anything but what’s best for
2 of those daughters, […]
Plus: I finished (and thoroughly enjoyed) Mat Johnson’s Incognegro…
Minus: …but I can’t write my review of it, because I am the sickest I have been possibly ever in my life. Certainly the sickest in recent memory. I never get sick, but here I am: hacking cough, nasal drama, headache, fuzzy-brained. And yet, […]
…so check out my fellow 32 Days… bloggers riffing on all this heart stuff.
Black Love Day was yesterday, but InkogNegro doesn’t want you to let that stop you from hugging on a Black person today.
Christina is hugged up with her boo, and she blesses us with an excerpt from her manuscript 69 Love Poems, […]
I’ve never been all that into Valentine’s Day. Even though Hallmark has a card for every conceivable relationship possible (”Happy Valentine’s Day to My Favorite Gynecologist!”), the day is mostly a celebration of romance–something that was, until recently, in fairly short supply in my life. My reactions to Valentine’s Day varied over the past two […]
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