Archive for May 2006

My father has prostate cancer. I found out last week. I am devastated. My father is a wonderful parent, friend, and mentor. I feel very scared and alone, almost as if I were a child dealing with such news. but I guess one is always a child to one’s parents, and always feels a primary [...]

I suck at doing this, really bad…for one I have too many email addresses. I need to consolidate them all into one. I think I will do that first thing. Then I need to delete old emails and reply to old emails that are still relevant. Then set up a plan/system to check my [...]

A big thanks to all who voted on the date change via poll, email, or phone. The new date for the MamaGathering is Friday August 4th – Sunday August 6th. We apologize if this inconveniences you in any way; a big factor in the decision was feedback from the location co-ordinator. Thanks for supporting the [...]

I thought for sure I’d be a total Dork! I am an outcast genius, who knew! Outcast Genius73 % Nerd, 56% Geek, 60% DorkFor The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A [...]

Jim Munroe lays it down with great advice and tips on Indie Book Distribution. I’ve been reading his site for a while now, he’s awesome. This is stuff I sorely need to do.

It’s ten minutes to the game (don’t ask me what game ‘cause I don’t know) and my Brian just raced off to the store to get me some sugar. I have been sick since Sunday and only been able to keep down tea. I was going to eat a little dinner because I am so [...]

i-bop is now 17, her birthday was last week. I have an essay coming together about this, I was asked to do a piece for this magazine, and I’m finding it hard to get started. I have a lot of conflicting emotions about this birthday. I had her when I was 17. So this [...]

I have a secret…and I don’t want to tell it to anyone. It’s showing in my face, somehow. Friends and family in the middle of a sentence will break off and ask me, what are you thinking about? What? I just smile and murmur, Nothing.
It’s my own business, for now.
My life has been such an [...]

So if you didn’t know I have 3 children by 3 different men. I am married to Dad #3, but still go by my maiden name (’cause I just don’t understand why I should change my name to his, so I didn’t, and he’s cool with that). My kids each have a different last name. [...]

My mother’s day was very strange, but ended up great. Starting out I felt fine, I was up all kinds of early way before my husband and kids. Then they got up and got started on my day. Brian was making brunch, and the kids gave me their presents. Out of nowhere I got these [...]

Yo Momma: MTV Tarzan Takes the Ghetto by Stormby Lloyd Williams
“You’re momma’s so lazy, the last time she had a job, the minimum wage was slavery.”– White winner insulting black loser on MTV
In the climactic showdown in the movie 8 Mile, the character Rabbit humiliates his hapless black opponent in a rap contest staged right [...]

Did anybody see David Blaine’s special Drowned Alive last night? What did you think of it? If you don’t know about it, he wanted to beat the world record of staying underwater without air for 9 minutes (current record is 8 min 58 sec) while also chained up; he’d have to get out of the [...]

Even Elmo loves Bey!’
Check out elmo dancing to Destiny’s Child’s song Survivor:

When you don’t have insurance, you sometimes ‘abuse’ the system by default.
I went to the emergency room for strep-throat treatment years and years ago (after having strep for nearly 2 months thinking I would go to a doctor as soon as I could get the money together). Doctors here require that you pay upfront, co-pay [...]

Yay! This is fantastic!
NEW YORK — The nation’s largest beverage distributors have agreed to halt nearly all sales of sodas to public schools _ a step that will remove the sugary, caloric drinks from vending machines and cafeterias around the country.
The agreement was announced Wednesday by the William J. Clinton Foundation and will also likely [...]

Brownfemipower has declared today Blogging for Radical Fun Day! she wrote:
And what is blogging for radical fun day you ask? It is the day when all us radical/progressive bloggers get to forget about angry trolls, forget about the fifty papers we have to grade, forget about the much too tiny bank account, the dead babies [...]

From Cheryl over at Women’s Space:
I’ve started a new feminist blog entitled, “My Mother is White — For White Feminist Mothers of Children of Color and Our Allies.” I think there is a need for a blog like this and I hope many of you will visit and, if you’re an ally, I [...]

Born out of frustration with dealing with mostly white feminist spaces, Womanism is the blog for women of color in support of the womanist experience. http://www.mspmedia.net/womanism.html

Jasai at Being Mama Daily wrote:
I. Am. Done.
This is what I feel after a week of having been pissed, blown away, astounded, dumbfounded and down right numb with disbelief; just tired, heart sick. And oh yeah… DONE!
I am the parent of a child being educated in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Undoubtedly one of [...]

I found this by way of Kendon over at the Afro Punk boards. I knew they were a bunch of sick perverts but not….so many. and over such a span of years. Oh. My
REPUBLICANS & PEDOPHILIA
* Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of trying to rape an 8-year old girl. [...]

Ok today, May 1st, 2006 is my official day of going off coffee. I have slowly weaned myself off it for the past month or so, and I feel ready I can do it. I am glad I didn’t decide to go cold turkey, that would have been too great a shock to my system. [...]