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 [...]
Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Please give to provide relief and hope to the people of Haiti: Doctors Without Borders Oxfam America Yéle Haiti
Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Please give to provide relief and hope to the people of Haiti: Doctors Without Borders Oxfam America Yéle Haiti
While searching for a photo to accompany the post below (which is a cross-post from CoParenting101.org), I was surprised to discover that Ozzie Davis and Ruby Dee had explored open marriage and wrote about the experience in their joint biography. A few months ago, I read a guest blog at Stepmother’s Milk by Kela Price, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
End of Life Stories postmark deadline Dec. 31, 2009 We’re seeking new essays that explore death, dying, and end of life care, for a collection to be published by Southern Methodist University Press. We’re looking for stories that transcend the “I” and find universal meaning in personal experiences. We hope to include stories representing a [...]
End of Life Stories postmark deadline Dec. 31, 2009 We’re seeking new essays that explore death, dying, and end of life care, for a collection to be published by Southern Methodist University Press. We’re looking for stories that transcend the “I” and find universal meaning in personal experiences. We hope to include stories representing a [...]
Not yet, says my dear, dear friend Genie Maples: Remembrance and honor This morning, I woke with an instant awareness of the date (rarely happens) and the sentence in my head, “9/11 changed everything.” That sentiment has always bothered me. It’s repeated over and over as a justification for the intentional erosion of the foundations [...]
August 13th was the 3rd anniversary of my mother’s death. At the time of her passing, I was a columnist for LiteraryMama.com. I took a brief hiatus from my column while my mother was in hospice, but upon my return I wrote a series of columns about her final months. In memory of my mother, [...]