Mamalicious!

…to Junot Diaz! His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

The piece of writing that I’m most proud of has made its way into the world.  It’s an article for Wondertime about what it meant to me to have my grandmother raise me (along with my mother).  I will provide the link to the online version below, but promise me you’ll pick up the print [...]

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 [...]

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 yet, the behavior flies in the face of how we tend to view elderly women. By LINDA DEUTSCH, Associated Press Writer  LOS ANGELES – An elderly woman was convicted Wednesday of murdering two [...]

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 [...]

“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 not my [...]

from Yahoo! News by Justin Cole Sun Apr 13, 10:23 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) – A stellar alliance of women from government, advocacy groups, faith-based organizations and Hollywood launched a major anti-poverty campaign Sunday to help poor women and girls around the world. [I wonder if this includes the U.S.--dp] The alliance, which has the [...]

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 Village [...]

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.