Archive for September, 2008

Mail Call: A Cup of Comfort for Adoptive Families

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Just when I was thinking I needed to post something here, this arrived:
Dear Deesha,

…I am pleased to confirm that your wonderful story THE TALK: PART ONE IN A SERIES has been selected for publication in A Cup of Comfort for Adopted Families.
The grand-prize-winning story is AGLOW WITH GRATITUDE, by Randi Israelow. The [...]

Question of the Day: BabyGirl

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Yep, she’s on a roll. This morning over breakfast:
“Mommy, do you have to go to college to be a princess?”
That’s proof positive of nature vs. nurture, right there. My feelings about the p-word are well-documented, and Princess Grace by Mary Hoffman (“There’s more than one way of being pretty.”) remains in heavy rotation [...]

You can run, John…

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Dave hands McCain and Palin their asses.

BabyGirl: Future voter, internet savant

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Conversation while en route to preschool this morning:
BabyGirl (age 4-almost-5): Mommy, Daddy is voting for Barack Obama, but he doesn’t even have a yard sign.
Me: Well, he can order one online.
BabyGirl: REALLY?  REALLY?  What dot com?
Me: BarackObama.com
BabyGirl: Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah!  (starts doing a little victory dance in her car seat) BARACKOBAMA.COM! I’m going to [...]

Just One Black Man’s Opinion

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

New blog alert! A cyber-buddy of mine recently launched his very own blog, Just One Black Man’s Opinion. In addition to both hailing from the Sunshine State South originally, JOBMO and I are both on a private e-list that’s been around since the early ’90s (I joined in 2004)–you know, a group of good [...]

A really slow blogging day here

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

I have a question–no, not why McCain is scared to face His Royal O-ness in a debate.  It’s this:
Why is one of my cat trying to open my kitchen cabinets?
Seriously, I keep looking around for a hidden camera because clearly someone has slipped something into this cat’s kibble.  I have two corner (L-shaped) cabinets beneath [...]

“Please Respond Immediately Forthwith In Confidence”

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Monday, September 22, 2008
Please Respond Immediately Forthwith In Confidence
Dear American:
I cordially correspond today to request you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude which is most seriously important.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused urgent [...]

Ain’t that a Bitch?

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

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, [...]

I’d like to thank the Academy…

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

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 [...]

“You can’t let it go to the judges…”

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

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 [...]