Archive for March 2006

‘Marriage Is for White People’By Joy JonesSunday, March 26, 2006; Page B01(from the Washington Post)
I grew up in a time when two-parent families were still the norm, in both black and white America. Then, as an adult, I saw divorce become more commonplace, then almost a rite of passage. Today it would appear that many [...]

Um it just occurred to me to look up Sesame Street on YouTube! Oh my word, I have *died* and gone to heaven. Heaven!! This is one of my favorite Sesame Street skits, ‘The Monster in the Mirror’, the celebrity version! I am such a Sesame Street fan, watching this made me cry. Enjoy!
If your [...]

Ok, so I finally watched the video of the black bloggers panel from SXSW 2006 after reading Jimi’s somewhat harsh critique. Having read Jimi for some time now and briefly met him many moons ago, I know he can be brusque so I thought wow, they couldn’t have been that bad. And they weren’t but [...]

OMG, this is so NASTY, the affects of meth use. I am too grossed out. This should be shown in middle school, junior high schools, and high schools across the country. Warning: the skin of the addicts is very disturbing, often with open sores.Faces of Meth

Today the boys and I cleared out the back porch closets. I had no idea just how much junk was up there! Just to give you an idea of the clutter: newspapers from 2003, several old broken toys like an Easy Bake Oven, a busted humidifier, a small broken hand vaccum, and lots of empty [...]

There. I said it. I have publicly declared my husband a slob. It gets on my nerves. For many years our bedroom looked like a high school boy’s bedroom. Slowly over time he got rid of or boxed his teenage stuff. When we moved where we live now, our bedroom has a big walk-in closet [...]

Due to the various schedule of the folks in my household we are doing our Spring Equinox party April 2nd!! all weeks behind the equinox, LOL. I am inviting friends and family, it’s gonna rock. I am all excited!
I will ask everyone to gather in a circle and say a few words about what Spring [...]

I think I will submit Mama Songs to the Independent Music World Series 2006. The IMWS is the largest independent showcase series in the country. This year the IMWS features showcases in LOS ANGELES, CHICAGO, ATLANTA, and PHILADELPHIA and will award a mammoth Grand Prize at each show.
This is your chance to play in front [...]

This video is TOO FUNNY!http://youtube.com/watch?v=924zmIi55P8

by Laura Barcella
Want proof that American racism is alive and well? Take it from Charles Hickman, an African-American Texas man who just won $1 million in a shocking race discrimination case.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Hickman was the only black employee at Commerical Coating Services, the pipe company where he worked for seven months in [...]

Someone asked a question about gum disease over at Afro Punk and I thought hey I should put that on my blog too. Oooooooooooh man, I could write a book on this. Maybe I should, LOL.
This disease SUCKS. Be very glad if they catch it in the early stages. I have lost 3 teeth because [...]

Because my writing has been so mama-focused (for example some of my books are Afro Mama, Veggie Mama, Teen Mama, etc) my kids like to say when they get upset with me that I should call myself Mean Mama. Oh my, this hurts me so much, because I don’t want to be mean and don’t [...]

Married at the age of four, an Afghan girl was subjected to years of beatings and torture, finally escaping to discover that within all the world’s cruelty, there is also some kindness.
KABUL,Afghanistan – Eleven-year old Gulsoma lay in a heap on the ground in front of her father-in-law. He told her that if she didn’t [...]

Cleaning up the site and found this, LOL! Enjoy

Video out September 2006: Buy to reserve your copy today.
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I did good all this week! I am so proud of myself. I did eat some potato chips twice and pretzels once this past week but I did not add any salt to any food. I bought and ate some unsalted peanuts!! I LOVE salty peanuts so much, ya’ll just don’t know. But I ate [...]

Is it me or is Malcolm Gladwell a total hottie? Man, I am in love with his books. What a mind! Makes me wonder. I mean he’s not as physically fine as Brian, my current husband or Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje**, my 2nd husband or Lenny Kravitz** my 3rd husband, but lord have mercy his mind [...]

It just does not make any sense. Here it is past 8:30pm Friday night, and I am wrapping up MSP work on Tuesday’s to-do list. Suuuuucks! and it’s not like I have overscheduled myself, believe me I learned my lesson on that many moons ago. But once again, Time is kicking my posterior end…I feel [...]

I am a salt FIEND. I love salty foods. Potato chips, salted rice, tofu with soy sauce, salted peanuts, etc. I am vegan and eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. I do a Master Cleanse every 4 months of so. I drink lots of water and very little caffeine. But I consume waaaaay too [...]

(This is a re-post from 8/28/05…I submitted this along with the pic to Being Mama Daily and they published it! Yay!)
My sons think the sun rises and sets on their big sister. She is 5 1/2 years older than Scott, 8 1/2 years older than Todd. My kids have always enjoyed hanging out together but [...]

My father fell recently and is not doing so well. Please send your vibes, well wishs, and prayers. I love my father very much, he is an awesome dad and a smart, fun, interesting person. This pic is of us last summer at my house.

From Vegan Momma’s Blog, I am SO going to submit to this:
“Sistah Vegan: Black Women on the Social Implications of Veganism.”
Sistah Vegan Anthology Submission Guidelines:Deadline: June 1, 2006
I am searching for Black identified sistahs that practice Veganism to share their stores in an anthology I would like to put together. I am looking for poetry, [...]

Afrophobia is a phobic attitude toward people of indigenous West African, Sub-Saharan African, or otherwise black origin, their culture or ideas. It is often associated with fear of domination or “racial” or cultural “pollution”. Unlike anti-Semitism, Afrophobia is primarily a racial and, to a somewhat lesser extent, cultural phenomenon, lacking a strong religious dimension. However, [...]

From my friend Gloria’s Blog:Mamis, you need to share your stories!
Our organization got contacted by the same group who publishes the now-famous women’s health books “Our Bodies Ourselves”. The oddest thing is that I JUST wrote a piece a few days ago on the Boston Women’s Health Collective (the group who started publishing these books [...]

Well Lookie Here! I found the music video to my favorite 80s songs by my absolute favorite group, General Public! Thanks to Mamachon over at Nappturality.com, who posted a thread about YouTube. I had no idea you could get music videos there. Check it out:

When I first saw this video I was 11 or 12 [...]

He’s one of my heros too, just like Octavia Butler!! OMG, I am so sad.
I cut this from a newspaper article on him a few years ago. It affected me so deeply I taped it up and carried it around in my planner from that day on:
From USA Today:Gordon Parks was simply one of the [...]

I’ve ranted before about my mother-in-law. Well this blog is in appreciation of her. She loves her son very much and has bent over backwards to be nice to me even after we had nasty fights. She loves my kids unconditionally and has always treated my 2 older children just like my youngest, who is [...]

This pic is from 1997, our son Todd was a day old! I was 25 and my husband Brian 23. We were so young and full of pep. Now we go to bed at 10pm, sometimes 9pm, if we have to get up early in the morning ha ha ha. I feel so ambivalent [...]

Monday the governor of South Dakota signed into law a bill that would ban virtually all abortions in the state. Neither the governor nor any of the law’s supporters, however, have been honest about what the cost and effect of such a law will be.
Those who authored this bill and those who voted for it [...]

THE HISTORY OF CHILD ABUSEBy Lloyd deMause
…By the thirteenth century in the West, abandonment via oblation, or the giving of young children to monasteries for sexual and other uses, was ended, the first disapproval of pedophilia appeared, the first childrearing tracts were published and some advanced parents began to practice what I have termed the [...]