I had some baklava with my lunch at this Mediterranean place today. Baklava is all honey-yumminess, but mostly I love it because my Nay-Nay introduced me to it when I was a kid. Nay-Nay was always bringing the world to me in a white paper bag or covered styrofoam bowl. I wrote a tribute to [...]
Hatred is the anger of the weak. – Alphonse Daudet
This is just begging to be a Co-Parenting 101 Quote of the Day. So very, very true.
There are few people in the world that I hate (or have hated), and in every case, I felt that way because I believed I lacked power to change my [...]
Your Hands
“I’m writing a poem in my head right now,”
I tell you this morning as you brace me
and embrace me
to make love.
“A poem about your hands,” I whisper,
“About what they are doing…
…right now. And what they did yesterday,
and how your hands tell my body’s story,
how your hands tell the story
of us.”
When you put your hands [...]
Below is a comment I left for Inkognegro in response to the follow up post to his guest-post at Single Sisters Speak (corrected for typos):
All of your words on the “deadbeat dad” subject hit home, because I had one, but this:
“Whether absent in the physical, or in the mental and emotional…your children become suspended in [...]
In honor of the first TV show I ever watched turning 40, here’s something from the archives that I wrote for “Love Isn’t Enough”: “Sunny Days…and Some Stupid and Sarcastic Ones, Too”
And here’s my first crush, John-John from Sesame Street:
According to Wiki, John-John went into the military, lives in Texas, and now performs occasionally as [...]
My very first post in the 2008 32 Days of Black History celebration was this one about Michael Jackson.
RIP…
(photo jacked from PPR_Scribe’s blog entry)
Yesterday, my sister-friend PPR_Scribe who blogs at This So-Called Post-Post-Racial Life updated her excellent blog series, “Working with Black Women”. I am hanging on her every word…check it out! Part 1, Part 2
Alas, all good things must come to an end. This week, I wrap up my 2-month guest-blogging gig at Bitch magazine. It’s been a fun ride, and the head Bitches are the best to work with! Check out my latest blog post (why, Joni, why!!??) here.
While my kids weren’t so into the Sesame Street boxed set, The Electric Company boxed set is in heavy rotation around here. Mini-Me reads at a high school level (seriously), but she still loves the sketches and the music. I like the trip down memory lane, and of course my secret crush, Morgan Freeman, was [...]
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 [...]
