“If you don’t watch her, she’s going to be hot in the pants” my maternal grandmother said, talking with my mom one day about me. I had wandered over near my grandmother’s kitchen door after running around with my cousins. Always the slowest runner because of being knock-kneed and having breathing issues due to allergies, [...]

I do think the world would be a fantastic place if we all acted out of love and self-acceptance instead of shame and fear. I think people feel ashamed sometimes because they feel it was their fault that they are in the situation they are in. Even if it is, they still should have enough [...]

I got to meet the brilliant and wonderful Aishah Shahidah Simmons! She is the writer, producer & director of the groundbreaking documentary No! I saw it at the AIDS Task Force of Greater ClevelandFriday, April 14, 2006.www.aidstaskforce.org Moving from enslavement of African people in the United States through present day, NO! moves from rage/trauma/emotional and [...]

What I do about cleaning is I schedule something every day. I do not do my daily chores all at once but interspersed throughout my day. What motivates me is that I do not do well in a dirty and/or chaotic environment…when my house is dirty it really affects how I feel; it creeps me [...]

DETROIT (AP) – A 5-year-old boy called 911 to report that his mother had collapsed in their apartment, but an operator told him he should not be playing on the phone, and she died before help arrived. The family of Sherrill Turner, 46, does not know whether a swifter response could have saved her life, [...]

Christian’s site has me wishing longingly (is that even a word, lol) that I had the time to hook my site up. I have a cute idea in mind for my blog and a nifty idea in mind for the biz section of my site. I really like his site, I tooled around it and [...]

Just like with flickr I’m the last person on the net to know about del.icio.us, but I finally signed on. It took me a while because I could not see how useful it would be to me, but since I signed on this morning I’ve found quite a few useful and interesting links I might [...]

I have good sprouts, so far my broccoli, tomatoes, radishes, green beans, carrots, and collards are sprouting well. Herbs that are sprouting are basil, parsley, and lavender. I am doing a container garden and will transplant these into containers in 2 weeks onto my balcony. I also planted oregano, okra, beets, cabbage, peas, corn, cucumber, [...]

TENSIONS very high at Duke University as Dancer Gives Details ofOrdeal (a different March Madness) A woman hired to dance for the Duke lacrosse team describes a night of racial slurs, growing fear and, finally, sexual violence. The woman who says she was raped last week by three members of the Duke University lacrosse team [...]

Feminist Alliances posted by Cheryl on Women’s Space. This is AWESOME: There are a lot of feminist women who are anti-pornography, anti-prostitution, anti-SM like me. Unfortunately, they are also racists. They don’t have any clue that they are. They think they aren’t. They rattle on cluelessly and say and do things which are hurtful, ignorant, [...]

well, at least 1/4, LOL. I saw this on Blogdangit and just had to take the quiz: 25 % My weblog owns 25 % of me.Does your weblog own you?

My first plantings are growing well! I am so excited. This past week I did some more newspaper peat pots, I planted parsley, lettuce, cucumber, radish, beets, oregano, okra, peas, corn, cabbage, and pepper. Soon the first round of plantings will be ready to put in the big container pots and put out on the [...]