Just read that the good folks at Bitch (”the feminist response to pop culture”) are in need of support of a monetary sort. They write:
First the bad news: The print publishing industry as a whole is staring into a void. Across the board, newsstand magazine sales are in a slump, subscriber numbers are down, […]
Just before TechBoo and I took off for a weekend getaway to Miami (heavenly!) this past Friday, I learned that Mamalicious! has been awarded a Certified Honest Blogger Award! AJ aka The Cruel Secretary is the wonderful soul who likes me…she really likes me! (Check out my certification on the sidebar…Thanks, TechBoo! Mwah!)
According […]
I ripped the title of this entry from an entry that Yvette posted recently with clips from HBO’s “The BlackList Vol. 1″. The first clip is of Chris Rock:
I shared this clip today with someone I love, noting that she’s Larry Holmes and her parents are the racist judges. My friend is totally […]
Michelle at GirlChildPress is playing with my emotions. In case you don’t know Michelle, she’s the editor-brain, -heart, and -soul behind Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta! [1] and Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces. She’s playing with my emotions because on her home page is this little teaser:
Woman’s Work: The […]
So in the previous post, I was whining about self-imposed deadlines and being undisciplined. I checked in with my productivity partner, Yvette, to talk about what carrots we could effectively dangling in front our selves to keep to our deadlines. For myself, I came up with outings like “An Evening with Walter Mosley” […]
Aside from mothering, volunteering, talking about de-cluttering my house, and doing a tiny bit of actual de-cluttering, here’s what I’m working on:
Freelancing: Pitching, researching, and interviewing (2 articles, possibly 3)
Anthologies: Co-editing Down to the Wire (but the deadline’s not until December); waitinghopingpraying that Learning to Eat finds a publisher.
Nonfiction: Drafting a book proposal on co-parenting […]
from Yale University Press
The Yale Series of Younger Poets champions the most promising new American poets. Awarded since 1919, the Yale Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Past winners include Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich, William Meredith, W.S. Merwin, John Ashbery, John Hollander, James Tate, and Carolyn Forché. […]
So I’m working on a new article for a national magazine (well, fingers crossed), and in the process I reach out to the subject of this article for an interview. I totally put on my detective hat and track him down via email (leaving all my credentials and contact info). He totally CALLS ME […]
ETA: In case you can’t see the embedded video, here’s the link.
Blame our test-prep-crazed schools and overscheduled culture, sez the writer below. Amen and amen.
Struggling School-Age Boys
A new study says parents are right to worry about their sons.
Peg Tyre
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 1:10 PM ET Sep 8, 2008
Every other week it seems a new study comes out that adds to our already-formidable arsenal of parental worries. But even by […]
