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The Soapbox: Parents Who Give Mature Games To Their Children

http://thingsthatblackpeoplelike.wordpress.com/ Parents!? Ok, enough is enough. All video games are NOT like Trix cereal! All video games are not for kids! Mature content in video games vary in degre…

"The Best Man Holiday"...Grab the Tissue...

Prepare to break out the tissues for this one, because the floodgates of tears will soon follow… It has been 15 years since The Best Man (1999) debuted on the Hollywood screen and the reunion could n…

$#*! My Parents Didn’t Say

I really hope you can’t relate to what I’m going to talk about in this post. That would mean you probably had a well adjusted childhood, a decent adolescent stage, and are now a happily functioning a…

Liberal Arts Nerd and Proud: Why the humanities are just as good as math and science

During the Sunday podcast on Blerd parenting , I said something that I knew would be controversial. (And I’m not talking about the bit about nerds not being extroverts. I get it. We can be social but…

The Making of Coco LaSwish

Coco LaSwish Shameless self-promotion time. Today is the birthday of my very first children’s book: Coco LaSwish-A Fish from a Different Rainbow . The official launch will be next month on Sunday, Au…

Motherhood means lots of love and never pottying alone

There’s a belief that you don’t really appreciate your mom until you’ve become a mother. Well, I disagree. I always appreciated my mom and admired her! But I developed a new found respect for the ins…

"WTH Is That in Her Diaper?" and Other Interesting Discoveries: The Low Down on Becoming a New Mom (With Contest Giveaway!)

If you’ve read any of my previous blog posts, you know that I like to approach life with a sense of humor. Giving birth and becoming a new mom was no exception. Yes, I love my little girl, Chloe, a.k…

Random Rant: Thanks for the compliment, but my interracial kid is NOT an exotic pet

My hubby forwarded me this article from The Root this morning, because he knew it would interest me: ‘Mixed Kids Are the Cutest!’ Isn’t Cute . Not only did the article interest me, but I had to reso…

Honest to Blog: Quvenzhané Wallis

( I haven't written in a while, had to get this off of my chest, and I hope I'm not the only one outraged.)  I am so angry right now, with people. People in general, who don't see that th…

Why is it easier to find a vampire than a black person in YA fiction?

I was pretty excited when I saw the previews for the supernatural teen movie, Beautiful Creatures . Well, not The Hobbit excited. I damn near did cartwheels  when I found out that Peter Jackson and …

"Whatever Happened To Saturday Morning Cartoons?"

...about 20 years ago—beginning in the early 1990s—network television started gearing Saturday morning television toward adults. The result is what we see today; the major networks airing adult-orien…
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