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 [...]
Because I’m swamped and posting here will be light for a while, and because I’m inspired by my tweep @llapen‘s sharing of her micro-fiction, I thought I’d share some fiction of my own. This story has been published here and here (“A powerful collection of today’s most talented African American women writers, PMS 2008 is [...]
TeeLynn: “Writer. Geek. Mental health advocate. Sarcastic smartypants.” My friend and fellow Yalie, TeeLynn, recently blogged about dealing with the pain of a break up–or not. What gets on my everlasting nerves are those passive-aggressive folks who, instead of dealing with their hurt and disappointment, hand their emotional baggage to their children to lug around. [...]
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! __________________________________________________________ Fatherhood Freestyle: The Unheard Voices of Single Black Fathers (working title) Open Call for Submissions Summary: WeParent seeks submissions for an anthology expressing [...]
…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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 down. [...]
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 co-authoring, [...]