I totally jacked this, heading and all, from my girl, Sweet GenieLou. She said, “I’ve been a sucker for pure entertainment over substantive argument lately,” and I gotta nod. This goes out to my other girl, Yvette, who, last I heard, was in news-overload and thinking about going cold turkey for a while. Have a [...]
…thank God almighty, I’m done at last! My essay about black women and motherhood writing is due to the good women at Bitch magazine today, and I finally finished. I haven’t pulled an all-nighter like this since freshman year of college (the time I drank a Big Gulp-size cup of black coffee which gave me [...]
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.”)
“Hey, Mom! We’ve got Obama and Clinton FIGHTING!” Say what? Mini-Me, age 9, and a friend (also 9) are in the next room playing computer games. Last I checked, the game was Club Penguin. So of course, this little announcement from my budding Don King warranted an investigation. Seems MM and friend ventured onto an [...]
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 [...]
My latest column is up over at AntiRacistParent. It’s a review of Sesame Street: Old School, Volumes 1 and 2. Enjoy!
I’m working on a critical essay about black women/motherhood/mommy memoir writing for a magazine, and I’m looking for books by black women that deal with mothering and/or the family-paid work balancing act women do. So far, I have: “I’m Every Woman…” by Lonnae O’Neal Parker “Rising Up Singing…” an anthology of black women writers on [...]
Finally–after a long wait–my copy of PoemMemoirStory (PMS) #8, a literary journal out of the University of Alabama, arrived in the mail today! #8 is a special black women writers’ issue, guest edited by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, AND I’M IN IT! More accurately, my short story “Bomani Jones” is in it. Happiness! This is my [...]
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 [...]
In this country, “American” means “white.” Everybody else has to hyphenate. –Toni Morrison