Let’s keep it real up in here Friends: parenting is an exhilarating, yet EXHAUSTING task. The chores are many and the work is repetitive, so sometimes you can wonder if what you’re doing, saying or speaking day in and day out is actually being received and/or making a difference. Apparently, it does…..and this letter offers… Continue reading Little Pitchers, Big Ears: A Daughter’s Letter To Chocolate Mama
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A quick blurb/opinion/outlook on what I’m into or thinking about, you never know what will be said….
We Fight, We Love, We Prevail: A Tribute To Black Families & Relationships
To let the media tell it, you’re more likely to find a polka-dotted unicorn moonwalking across a rainbow in the middle of rush hour traffic faster than a loving and committed African-American couple. Don’t believe the hype. There are incredible odds against us, no doubt: institutionalized and systemic racism, societal pressures and unrealistic, inhumane standards… Continue reading We Fight, We Love, We Prevail: A Tribute To Black Families & Relationships
I Can’t, I Won’t, Just STOP: An Open Letter To Alexsandra Wright
Ladies & Gentlemen, please allow me to jump up on the soapbox for a hot minute about this right here, excuse the length of my rant because I am feeling ALL types of ways about the whole mess… I don’t enjoy seeing ANYONE struggle as a single parent and think that men/women who willfully neglect… Continue reading I Can’t, I Won’t, Just STOP: An Open Letter To Alexsandra Wright
Raising The Babies MOC Style: Chocolate Mama’s Q&A With Love Don’t Lye
Hey Chocolate Lovers! 🙂 It’s been a MAD hectic few weeks, but I’ve come up for air long enough to share a link to a great interview that Cute & Kinky founder, Kristen Muldrow, conducted with me about how we parents the kiddies. Thoughts and shares are appreciated, each one reach one and thanks again… Continue reading Raising The Babies MOC Style: Chocolate Mama’s Q&A With Love Don’t Lye
The Protection of Projection: A Reader’s Lesson in Bigotry Vs. Racism
Here we go again. Shortly after my Dr. Frances Cress Welsing interview showed up in today’s Briefing, a reader wrote in doing 2 things: admitting to being ignorant about racism, yet displaying the arrogance and entitlement to make it EVERYONE ELSE’S issue rather than applying introspection or actually placing blame where blame belongs. Captain Oblivious… Continue reading The Protection of Projection: A Reader’s Lesson in Bigotry Vs. Racism