As I blogged recently, my youngest bonus daughter DG picked me over Condoleezza Rice as the subject of her school project. She had to interview me and write a report. She also had to create a “Bottle Buddy” replica of me. I’m loving the results. Check me out… I am rocking this outfit, am I [...]
“Romance devoid of laughter can’t last.”–Alfred Edmond, Jr., editor-in-chief of BlackEnterprise.com Such truth. I love, love, love the sound of TechBoo husband’s laugh. We laugh a lot, and we both recognize humor as a building block and resource in our relationship. We both can be very stubborn intense, and more than a few times, we’ve [...]
Say your resident football fan(atic) is driving home from the gym and calls you to find out the score of The Game. You know…THE Game, whatever game is on that’s he’s missing, and the score of which he needs to know right away. Maybe he’s come to grips with the fact that, in his absence, [...]
“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” ~Rita Rudner
Isn’t she lovely? So…I haven’t been invited to a baby shower since, like, 2002, 2003. Then this week…I get invitations to 2, both next month. And I have to admit: The old uterus roused from its slumber to whine, “What about meee?” Me to TechBooHusband: Hon, we should have a baby shower. TechBooHusband: For our [...]
Inspired by our pooches, MiniMe and Daddy’sGirl (my youngest bonus daughter), just penned the following parody of “Single Ladies.” Hee-larious… All my single doggies (x7) Now put your paws up Up in the doghouse, just woke up Doin’ my own puppy thing I decided to bark (bark) Now you gonna lick (lick) ‘Cause another pug [...]
PantyO started following me on Twitter the other day, and I’m not exactly sure why. Look…I’m pushing 40, have had natural childbirth, and well, the old gray mare ain’t what she used to be. Yet, TechBooHusband stays smiling so…*shrug*. That said…even if I was having problems, I STILL wouldn’t blow $125 on PantyO, some drawse [...]
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 [...]
Check out my latest at The Faster Times. Here’s an excerpt: “These days, it seems that the Brits are on the cutting edge of divorce-related commerce. From the folks across the pond who first brought us divorce cakes and divorce gift cards, we now have divorce gift registries. Debenhams, a British department store chain recently [...]