I don’t write my deep dark secrets here on this blog, but I still have to be mindful of my ever-aging and online-reading offspring…and, now, mindful of potential employers, as well. There’s nothing I write that I’m ashamed of, nor do I misrepresent myself here or In Real Life. However, instinct tells me […]
My ex used to joke that I had Issues with customer service. Back then, I had zero tolerance for poor service. Not that I’m cool with it now, but in my 20s, I was a monster. A justified monster (mostly), but a monster nonetheless. As a paying customer, I had no patience for rudeness or […]
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, […]
First (for me at least), there was Stuff White People Like.
Then I discovered, Stuff Black People Like, a site that’s still under construction (but clink on “Stuff Black People Like Blog” on the left side of the page to access).
And now, via my Yale Black Alum Network e-list, comes…
Stuff Educated Black People Like
I’m […]
I’m in the revision phase of a creative nonfiction essay currently under consideration–keep your fingers crossed–for inclusion in an upcoming anthology. My essay is about trying to raise healthy and health-conscious kids while also sharing with them the food and cooking traditions from my Southern roots. From time to time, we’ve tried what […]
Mini-Me is home from school today (start of the long President’s Day weekend/vaca), but for Baby Girl it was business as usual–preschool. So…I’m twisting Mini-Me’s locs, and we are watching Le Mozart Noir based on Christina’s recommendation. The film introduces my budding violinist to Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Joseph de Bologne, a swashbuckling […]
My musings on Black History Month are up at AntiRacistParent.com.
Multi-tasking stats: While writing this blog entry, I also: talked to The Boyfriend about how John McCain looks like an infant; waited for the plumber; ordered a video from Amazon based on Christina’s recommendation.
Wired magazine. Who knew?
I am not a techy, by any stretch. Just posting the following image taxed the meager tech skills I have:
So when I picked up the current issue of Wired magazine, I imagined myself thumbing past most everything except the cover piece that caught my eye: “Why Things Suck”, a […]
This Spring, GirlChild Press will release its second collection, Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta! The anthology includes a contribution by yours truly (a short story entitled, Bomani Jones), but I’d recommend it, even if it didn’t. Michelle Sewell, founder of GirlChild Press, would like to send preview copies of Just Like a Girl… to […]
For Christmas, Mini-Me, who is 9 years old, got a laptop. She is thrilled to be able to write her own stories whenever and wherever she wants without having to ask to use my laptop (99% of the time, the answer was “no.”). She’s also discovered the joys of IM. Her Friends […]
