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What a momentous weekend! Celia turned 10 months! I would post a recent picture but I've been distracted because: Viva lost her top fron...

Like many Americans, I’m confused about the health care reform legislation currently taking form in Washington. I understand that one of the...

My grandmother is in poor health. She will be having a lung biopsy later this week because a recent scan showed what looks like lesions on h...

“Your life is like a bad comedy,” the real estate agent said as she was showing us a place on Saturday. It’s not feeling very funny right no...

It's officially August and you know what that means…it's my birthday month! Huzzah! I proudly celebrate my soon-to-be 41 years on th...

BADNESS I am super stressed, so much so that I experienced my first migraine recently. I would have given anything not to reach that milest...

Every now and then I think I just want to chuck it all and go live in a cabin somewhere. Recently Sweet Dub and I were both having one of th...

When I posted about the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. arrest yesterday, I hesitated before I began writing because I didn't have all the facts ...

How nuts is this? Harvard Professor Arrested CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 20 (UPI) -- A prominent black Harvard professor is facing disorderly con...

Is my baby too white? I am not talking about the actual baby, Cily, who is in point of fact, rather fair-complexioned. I am talking about Mi...

I am in the midst of writing a progress report on a program that my non-profit has been piloting county-wide. I've been motoring along q...

Probably one of the best writings on marriage I have read. Amen, sister. 

It's been a while since I posted, and I don't know where to start, so let's just dive in, shall we?   Off We Go   We were of...

I may have mentioned that my 84-year-old grandmother was hospitalized a few weeks ago. Turns out she had pneumonia, and other ailments which...

We had layoffs at work yesterday. One person in my department, a really good friend, got laid off. She handled it amazingly well (far better...

That was a very long hiatus.* For those of you who might be concerned, nothing was wrong aside from the everyday life with an infant (sickne...

So busy at work, so tired at home, so not blogging either way.   But then I read about this , the latest in a string of racist hoaxes thro...

I'm moblogging today. I think.   Just a quickie. Overheard while Viva was trying to distract Cily from crying (teething, teething, OH ...

Hey, guess what? My “newborn” will be seven months old tomorrow. She’s awesome: I like to squish her and kiss her and all sorts of unspeaka...

[Before we begin, apologies: last week I was out of the blogosphere for family issues. Early in the week, I got a call from daycare that my ...