Highly Connected

I am not. Particularly when it comes to connecting with all the high tech gadgets, I am not highly connected. Before you say, “well, that’s fairly typical for a middle-aged person,” let me say that I am computer literate and somewhat of a nerd. I build websites. I code in html and css. I’m learning [...]

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Who’s Teaching the Kids?

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m more than a little concerned about what our children are learning, in and out of school. I’m not talking specifically about educational institutions per say – goodness knows there are a heap of problems there – but about the myriad of influences affecting children, particularly [...]

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Elliana Placas

Who is this woman? Judging from the uproar over her appointment as fashion director to Essence Magazine, one would think that she just landed on earth from another planet. Foreign, unfamiliar, oohh…maybe someone not to be trusted, maybe even *gasp* dangerous. Ok, I get it. Cushy jobs like this are hard to come by for [...]

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Dying For Sex

Something’s afoul in the black community. Women are being slaughtered, intimately. According to the Center for Disease Control, this government’s health and medical watchdog, the number one killer of young black women is HIV/AIDS. Check these statistics: * the leading cause of death for black women (including African American women) aged 25–34 years. * the [...]

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Job Searching

I use to teach. I got out while the getting was good. I only did it for several years. I came back into the classroom after a long hiatus – since I graduated college. The economy forced me back into the classroom. Now honestly, I did think that I had something to offer. I had [...]

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When Mama is The Man of The House

Do boy-children grow up to expect women to do it all like their mamas did? Case in point. Young man leaves the nest (maybe), ventures out on his own, searches for someone just like good ole’ mom. Just who is “good ole’ mom?” Well, if she was like my single mother, she did everydamnthing that [...]

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Another Thing About Mama’s Boys

Have you ever been in a situation where the fellow in your midst just wasn’t stepping up to the plate? It seemed you had to take on a new persona, whether that would be the demure damsel or the bow-toting amazon, to get their cooperation, albeit given reluctantly and churlishly, or you had to take [...]

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Haters

Why do people seem to relish in dissing celebrities? I mean like, right now, there’s all this talk going on about Kitty Kelly — gosh am I giving her free advertising? — and her recent tome about all things Oprah. Of course, from what I’ve gleaned, it’s mostly negative and dramatic – the kind of [...]

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