Friends

By Trula • March 29th, 2009

We went to see my best friend’s new baby girl, Taylor. She is beautiful!
Samira has been a wonderful friend to me, she is a warm, kind, and deeply interesting person. She has a great sense of humor and so dedicated and focused on her goals. We met at college when I went [...]

Question: My room mate ignores her son. She feeds him and keeps him clean, but hardly ever talks to him or plays with him. She doesn’t spank him when he does something wrong but she will scream at him. He is only 3 years old. He gets bored and will start whining and following me [...]

When making friends with other mothers it’s important to understand that people carry their personality issues with them into motherhood. Becoming a mother does not usually lesson an aggressive personality. On the contrary, it may actually increase how aggression manifests in someone with this personality. For the purposes of this post, I define an Alpha [...]

I just saw this on black academic’s blog, and I’m just so happy because I may be able to go to this screening. I did an interview with the director, Aishah Shahidah Simmons a few years ago when the film was still in production:
Through testimonies from Black women survivors, commentaries from acclaimed African-American women scholars [...]

Connected up again with Gloria!!! I met her online on the old hipmama boards 5 years or so ago. She’s also a writer and has a little boy. She helped me through such a rough time during my marriage when I almost got divorced, patiently listening to me vent about Brian anytime I called, even [...]

So I hung out with Samira this past Saturday, and that was fun. It was kind of hectic because it was actually a business meeting of hers that she asked me to come to, and I said yeah because I missed seeing her the week before when we were supposed to go out and have [...]

I had early morning coffee with one of my Amy friends (I have like 5 friends named Amy) this morning. It was great! She is so cool. She had her little boy with her, and he is such a treasure. I adore her so much, she is so down to earth and so easy to [...]

I was reading over at Hip Mama about a poster having trouble with her husband’s mother. Just after I finished writing my two cents on the subject, my friend Amy called to bitch about her mother-in-law. Then I called my friend Diane E. to see if she can come to my graduation party, and she [...]

I came across the writer Kola Boof online a year and a half ago. She just knocked me out, she seemed so daring and vivacious and full of life. She has such a fierce love for her people! I was so astonished at the things she said and did – she goes topless on her [...]

Where would I be without my friends? I don’t want to imagine it. The stress in my life these past few months (marriage crumbling, health problems, etc) would have broken me if I didn’t have my friends. I am a sometimey-social person, but my basic core is a solitary self. My children, and then Brian, [...]

She was my friend. My very good friend, for many years. We shared two houses together. In one duplex she lived upstairs, me and my kids downstairs. The next duplex was side-by-side. She had four kids when I met her, I had two. We both had baby daddy drama. Both houses had a front and [...]