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 [...]
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’d like you to turn your attention to one of my blog-sisters, a fellow AntiRacistParent, and a fellow Yalie: Liana Roxanne Clark. She is a mom, maintains a wonderful blog, AND is a teen doc and medical director. Her latest post, “On Being Clean”, advocates for getting rid of the false “dirty/clean” dichotomy when we [...]
Elizabeth Alexander, prize-winning poet and professor of African-American Studies at Yale, will read a poem at Obama’s inauguration! Congrats to her!
Do yourself a favor and check out the newest addition to the Mamalicious! blogroll, AfroNetizen. The site’s founder and Chief Evangelist is Chris Rabb, a fellow Yalie. AfroNetizen is a great one-stop for progressive news and views by, about, and of interest to black folks.
“Generosity without orthodoxy is nothing, but orthodoxy without generosity is worse than nothing.”
~Hans Frei
(quoted in Brian D. McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy )
The year: 1989. The place: Yale, The Afro-American Cultural Center (bka “The House”)
Me, a freshman, not dancing, just holding up the wall as the song below plays. The album it’s from, along with “Poison” (BBD, “Never trust a big butt and a smile…”), was the soundtrack to my freshman year:
Question: Did we really [...]
The difference between MySpace and Facebook:
MySpace: You are likely to encounter your 8th grade boyfriend whom you haven’t seen in 20 years, exchange a grand total of 2 messages which amount to “Hey, there!”, and all is well until his barely literate wife sends you hate mail insisting you stay away from her man. Eighth [...]
I went out on a first (and last) date once with a cop. It was an online thing, and based on his picture, I wasn’t all that enthused. But I went…and then interacting with him face to face, I was even less enthused.
It wasn’t just that I wasn’t attracted to him. There was also the [...]
My relationship with my late mother was a loving but rocky one. Not long ago, when I drafted a tribute to my grandmother, the wonderful editor who guided me through the revision of that essay pointed out major holes in the piece. These holes represented places where I hesitated to write anything remotely [...]
