Give me a break. I know my football. I'm not a t-shirt wearer and I'm not a jump-on-the-band-wagon fan either. When I tell people that my newest novel, Win...Win is a tale of love in the world of semi-professional football, I get odd looks. Then I ge ...
Posted Thursday, November 19th 2009 at 8:40AM
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I have heard some crazy statements made about black folks. I've been told by others both black and white, that we:
* don't own pets
* have water droplets bounce off our hair (and it ) doesn't get wet when it rains.
* never get a suntan, if we ...
Posted Thursday, November 19th 2009 at 7:40AM
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I was minding my own business. I did some laundry and was folding up clothes when the radio station played an oldie, but a goodie, Rob Bass's "It Takes Two." I remembered my NYC trip with friends. We dubbed it a "Best Friends Weekend". We hit the clu ...
Posted Thursday, November 19th 2009 at 7:27AM
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This question drives my mother crazy. When I was in elementary school, my teachers would meet my mother at parent-teacher conferences. She would sit down with them, introduce herself, and they would fall in love with her British accent.
When she c ...
Posted Wednesday, November 18th 2009 at 7:47AM
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Any good comic working today has stolen material from comic icon Richard Pryor. It's true. I'll list a few for you: the late Bernie Mac, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Dane Cook, and Eddie Murphy. Yes, even Eddie Murphy. They all stole from Pryor.
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Posted Wednesday, November 18th 2009 at 7:10AM
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This morning, my daughter's alarm clock went off for 30 minutes. My heart skipped a few beats at first. She slept right through it. Having to listen to 30 minutes of loud and annoying sounds is not the way to start off my day. It broke my sleep and I ...
Posted Wednesday, November 18th 2009 at 7:04AM
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I don't like being a "responsible" adult at times. I know too many people are familar with the phrase that I used to title my blog. The simple fact of the matter is that nobody told you being a magician would be part of your "adult" job description.
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Posted Tuesday, November 17th 2009 at 7:12AM
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Before my nine-year-old daughter leaves the house for school, she makes sure I get my morning "mommy" kiss. I love that. She may have a difficult knot in her sneaker that she is desperate to unravel before the bus comes. She'll moan and groan until t ...
Posted Tuesday, November 17th 2009 at 6:48AM
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I missed the memo on this one.
I turned on my TV set to take a break from housework and when it came on singer Wayne Brady was trying to get a woman dressed as a ketchup bottle to trade her $600 for what was behind curtain number two. She picked ...
Posted Tuesday, November 17th 2009 at 6:40AM
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This is the time of year, I dread as a disabled person. I'm trying hard to take care of outside errands before snow graces my presence. When snow comes down, I have to be even more careful because if I fall that could be a disaster. I get annoyed wit ...
Posted Monday, November 16th 2009 at 8:40AM
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It's a fact of life, I've learned to deal with. I'm used to the stares, the mumbled comments, and the off-colored comments made when people think I'm out of earshot.
I wasn't prepared for the way people would react to me as a disabled person. Tem ...
Posted Monday, November 16th 2009 at 7:42AM
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As the mother of two daughters, I have their best interests at heart. Last year at a family holiday gathering, my brother-in-law stressed the importance of making sure when they get older that my daughters only date black men. I found his plea odd. H ...
Posted Sunday, November 15th 2009 at 3:34PM
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How true those words are. As I get older, I really don't care what other people think. I dress the way I want. I do the things I want. I'm happy. All that matters is what I think of myself.
When I was younger, this wasn't the case. I was always tr ...
Posted Sunday, November 15th 2009 at 3:18PM
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I vowed I'd never say some of the things my mother said to me when I was a kid. When I became a mom, I held true to my promise. I was doing well and then one day it happened.
My eldest daughter wanted to go to the amusement park with her friends ...
Posted Saturday, November 14th 2009 at 11:36AM
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I remember going into my youngest daughter's preschool class a few years ago and be introduced to some of the kids in her class. There was a Dyquan, Jacquan, Canei, Jayron among others. I just bit my lip and thought why?
It's bad enough that Acade ...
Posted Saturday, November 14th 2009 at 11:15AM
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I made a deal with myself early on when I was pregnant with my second child. Whatever I did for my first child; I would do for the second child. It was only fair. That way, each child would be treated equally and they could never accuse me of favorit ...
Posted Friday, November 13th 2009 at 8:53AM
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I'm so sick and tired of seeing well-bodied, healthy, and able people parking in handicap parking spaces. These days, I look for and at handicap license plates and parking tags that hang from rearview mirrors. I know the difference between the red an ...
Posted Friday, November 13th 2009 at 8:26AM
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I may live in Western New York, but I'm not a Buffalo Bills fan. I wasn't one when running back OJ Simpson was a player. I wasn't one when quarterback Jim Kelly led them to four Super Bowls and they lost them all. I'm not one now.
During an NFL ...
Posted Friday, November 13th 2009 at 8:19AM
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How would you finish this sentence? My answer is really easy. The last thing I did for myself was buy tickets for Oprah Winfrey's The Color Purple, buy shower gel at Bath and Bodyworks, go to physical therapy with my trainer. (I am recovering from a ...
Posted Thursday, November 12th 2009 at 7:39AM
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I heard a young female radio announcer make this statement. I was perplexed. She apparently didn't think her premise out. If she had, maybe, she wouldn't have made that proclamation over the airwaves.
What you do for a living doesn't tell me your ...
Posted Wednesday, November 11th 2009 at 12:05PM
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This season's fall line-up does nothing for me. I'm watching a few favorites like Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Private Practice, and Law and Order: SVU. When I'm not home, I DVR what I can't physically watch.
Reality TV has turned into a ...
Posted Wednesday, November 11th 2009 at 12:29AM
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Timeout doesn't work in my house. You know why? My children have a black momma.I refuse to put up with, tolerate, and deal with any child that thinks it's alright to kick, yell, or scream at me. No child of mine should even consider cursing at me. I ...
Posted Wednesday, November 11th 2009 at 12:25AM
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I came very close to physically killing my teenager yesterday. Her alarm clock went out off, she shut it off, and went back to sleep. When I got up and inquired why she wasn't in the shower, she replied that she had nothing to wear and couldn't go to ...
Posted Monday, November 9th 2009 at 4:59PM
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I'm sitting patiently waiting for singer Jeffrey Osborne to call me back. We have played a horrible game of phone tag and now he's it. Osborne is one of my favorite male vocalists and the last time I saw him in concert here was aro ...
Posted Monday, November 9th 2009 at 4:51PM
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