Mamalicious!

…when we make love, diamonds are forever.” “Bedroom eyes, headband to the si-ide…” They just don’t write lyrics like that anymore. I am officially old…school. Anyway. When I’m dragging in the morning, this always gets me going: And while I’m at it, here was my teenage-angst anthem. I once wrote all the lyrics in a [...]

So I wrote here about my Marriage 2.0, my way of identifying with the changing landscape of marriage and family in our culture.  Well, yesterday, I got an email from my former mother-in-law, now mother-in-love.  Somehow our wedding pictures got lost in the Internet ether, and I had to re-send them to her.  Her reply: [...]

My latest at The Faster Times.

I’m happy to report that aside from the fact that our getaway also took place at a beach location, our couples’ retreat this weekend had nothing in common with the comedy Couples Retreat. Actually, I take that back: we enjoy a lot of laughs, with the other couples, as well as just the two of [...]

This is the first installment of a column I was invited to write for another site, but there was so much delayed response after the initial acceptance, that I just withdrew it.  And then proceeded to sit on it for about 2 years (it dates itself with the Obama reference; we all know that he [...]

Love this.  I don’t know the source, but I got it from my brilliant  Tweep dumilewis.  Get more of Dr. Lewis here.

Ever been in a mood and just couldn’t find the right song on YouTube to reflect it? Yeah, that’s me right now, with laundry and deadlines looming, and missing my boo. So what’s a girl to do? I know…play the music we set our wedding video to! Peter Gabriel made this famous, but we love, [...]

I’m digging in the literary crates this week, and this morning I pulled out some nonfiction: one of my LiteraryMama columns from 2005, that feels like a life time ago. Who’s Your Daddy? By Deesha Philyaw March 9, 2005 A few months ago, I tuned in to a new Fox reality show, “Who’s Your Daddy?” [...]

You ever write something, then read it again years later and cringe? Yeah, that’s me with this piece, “Ellison” from the archives (2003). Clearly, I was working through some thangs. So color me surprised when I went digging for “Ellison” today, and found a nice letter to the editor about it in a subsequent issue [...]