Archive for December, 2008
Sunday, December 21st, 2008
Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” is in heavy rotation here, of course. But here’s a little more soul for your stocking (yes, ours are hung over the inoperative fireplace). (The “fall on your knees” line gets me every time.)
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” is in heavy rotation here, of course. But here’s a little more soul for your stocking (yes, ours are hung over the inoperative fireplace). (The “fall on your knees” line gets me every time.)
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
BabyGirl,to her preschool teacher in response to the teacher thanking her for the holiday gift: “Oh! [insert dramatic hand-wave and eye-roll] I do ALL my holiday shopping at Walgreen’s!”
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
I’m feeling kinda blah and cranky. I’m not going to blog about Caylee Anthony, the meter reader’s story, or the fact that I’m afraid that justice will not be served for this little girl. I’m not going to blog about “Katrina’s Hidden Race War”, or the fact that Scott Peterson’s 4th wife just might be [...]
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Elizabeth Alexander, prize-winning poet and professor of African-American Studies at Yale, will read a poem at Obama’s inauguration! Congrats to her!
Posted in Black History Month All Year Long, Black to the Future, Books and Writers, Cool Stuff, In the News, Politics, Race Matters, Yalies | 3 Comments »
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Elizabeth Alexander, prize-winning poet and professor of African-American Studies at Yale, will read a poem at Obama’s inauguration! Congrats to her!
Posted in Black History Month All Year Long, Black to the Future, Books and Writers, Cool Stuff, In the News, Politics, Race Matters, Yalies | 3 Comments »
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Here are some of the latest posts over at my other blog baby, CoParenting101.org: For those parents who did not get the memo: Co-Parenting: It’s not about you… …still, the put-on-your-oxygen-mask-first rule applies: Co-Parenting and Healing: Rising from the ashes of divorce And finally a little throwback text: Divorce by the Book Tell a co-parenting [...]
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Sunnis and Shiites agree: Saddam=not so bad.
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Another ship has been attacked by pirates. This time, it was 9 pirates who boarded a Chinese merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden, forcing the 30-member crew to barricade themselves in the ship’s accommodation room. Over 125 averted, attempted, and successful attacks and hijackings by pirates have taken place year to date. What’s going [...]
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Tonight, BabyGirl, Mini-Me, and I went out to dinner to celebrate Mini-Me’s most excellent report card. Mini-Me picked a place that we’d gone to previously on a Sunday afternoon; we didn’t know that it was more of a “bar crowd” on the weeknights. (I guess I should have known since he tells me all the [...]
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