Mamalicious!

My sister-in-spirit and “Co-Parenting Matters” co-host Talibah Mbonisi of WeParent is accepting submissions for an anthology about single black fatherhood. Please forward, re-post, re-tweet, and, if you are so moved, SUBMIT!
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Fatherhood Freestyle: The Unheard Voices of Single Black Fathers
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Open Call for Submissions
Summary:
WeParent seeks submissions for an anthology expressing the insights, experiences, and [...]

…my marriage vows.
Word on the street is that TechBoo has already started on his.
It’s like, “physician heal thyself.”  Kinda. I can write other stuff in my sleep.  But this…not so much.
I’ll just procrastinate some more, and go find a poem for Li’l Mama (my oldest future bonus daughter) to read.  Let this marinate…

Why is today made of awesome sauce, you ask?  Why is it gonna be lovely?
First, this afternoon, El Ex and I are signing on the dotted line with our fabulous agent, Danielle Chiotti of Upstart Crow Literary Agency. Danielle will rep up us, shopping our co-parenting book proposal around to publishing houses.  Fingers crossed for [...]

If you are a regular reader of CoParenting101.org, you know that I *heart* Talibah Mbonisi, founder of WeParent.com (a resource devoted to African-American co-parents) and our co-host on “Co-Parenting Matters.” Below is an awesome cross-post from WeParent penned by Talibah in which she talks co-parenting, Spades, and playing to win. She really breaks it [...]

Since TechBoo started a new job last fall, he doesn’t have the same access to email and phone that he did in his previous job. So when he texted me to see how my meeting went this morning with the agent who is interested in the co-parenting book that El Ex and I are [...]

I’m late with this, but only recently did I find out that the piece below would not be running as a guest-post at Psychology Today after all.  Some sort of bureaucratic misunderstanding, but I still thank Meredith Resnick for the invitation.
As Christmas approaches, my daughters and I have been revisiting treasured picture books that tell [...]

Getting married is nothing; it is assuming the responsibility of marriage that counts.—Haitian proverb
Like hopefully anyone who remarries, TechBoo and I are very conscious of “doing it better” the second time around.  So the above proverb from Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs really resonates.  Over on Co-Parenting101.or, we’re giving away a copy of Lifelines,  [...]

“The reading was sublime. All mama-writers. Lots of blood, sex, body fluids, wine.”
These 3 sentences were about all I could muster on Twitter when I returned home last night from the Unblurred reading.
I was pretty okay when I left the house.  By phone, Techboo had done his loving cheerleader thing.  The first time I read [...]

Join me and some other Hip Mamas for a reading at Rebellious Nature this Friday night as part of the Unblurred Art. Music.Performance Crawl along Penn Ave.
Click here for details.

It’s not an overstatement to say that TechBoo loves Mary J. Blige. When I proudly told him that I’d managed to mention his favorite singer in my latest co-parenting post at The Faster Times, he gave me the side eye.
“Don’t I get points for that?” I asked.
“AFTER I read it,” he replied. [...]