Over at CoParenting101.org, we just got our first reader question. Well, actually it’s a request: I like the site. I think it will give people a chance to explore the idea of divorce thoroughly. It will cause people to stop and think. I would like to see a story about how the friends of a [...]
Over at CoParenting101.org, we just got our first reader question. Well, actually it’s a request: I like the site. I think it will give people a chance to explore the idea of divorce thoroughly. It will cause people to stop and think. I would like to see a story about how the friends of a [...]
A fellow mama-writer is working on an article for a national parenting magazine, and she’s looking to interview parents who meet all of the following criteria: 1) spank their kids 2) disagree about this method of discipline 3) are willing to take part in a photo shoot for the article in NYC 4) live in [...]
As an elementary school kid growing up in the late ’70s, the idea of getting sent to the principal’s office and getting paddled was downright terrifying to me. I didn’t have to worry, though, because I was the quintessential Good Girl/Teacher’s Pet. Other kids, however, didn’t fare as well. It seems paddling is still practiced [...]
As an elementary school kid growing up in the late ’70s, the idea of getting sent to the principal’s office and getting paddled was downright terrifying to me. I didn’t have to worry, though, because I was the quintessential Good Girl/Teacher’s Pet. Other kids, however, didn’t fare as well. It seems paddling is still practiced [...]
I went to a house party/potluck tonight hosted by my friend and fellow writing comrade, Faith. Can I tell you how blessed I am to have a friend who is Finnish and Nigerian and a great cook versed in multi-ethnic cuisine and whose parties feature fabulous-but-grounded people from all over the planet (House guests from [...]
I went to a house party/potluck tonight hosted by my friend and fellow writing comrade, Faith. Can I tell you how blessed I am to have a friend who is Finnish and Nigerian and a great cook versed in multi-ethnic cuisine and whose parties feature fabulous-but-grounded people from all over the planet (House guests from [...]
August 13th was the 3rd anniversary of my mother’s death. At the time of her passing, I was a columnist for LiteraryMama.com. I took a brief hiatus from my column while my mother was in hospice, but upon my return I wrote a series of columns about her final months. In memory of my mother, [...]
Postscript The following column is the fourth installment in a series. In the three previous installments, Day . . . Break, Free at Last, and Letting Go, the author chronicled the final months of her mother’s fight against breast cancer. In this installment, the author leaves her hometown in the wake of her mother’s passing, [...]
Letting Go by Deesha Philyaw The following column is the third installment in a series. In two previous installments, Day … Break and Free at Last, the author began chronicling the final months of her mother’s fight against breast cancer. Early July 2005 Like my mother, the man is in his early 50s. And like [...]