The King of Everything and I volunteered for a Service Day here in town, and met up with some great groups working together under the umbrella of Americorps to beautify a school in a rougher neighborhood in the city. The school’s playground backs onto an alley, and often, the gangs are recruiting from right there. […]
If you’re going to buy someone flowers for Mother’s Day, consider ordering from Pro Flowers.… $10 of all Mother’s Day orders in the US will be donated to the March of Dimes, the US’s leadng non-profit organization for pregnancy and baby health.
I don’t usually post info verbatum from action alerts in my inbox but damn, […]
Single mother Tanya Andersen seems to have the RIAA tiger by the tail, and she’s biting down hard.
When the suit for piracy the big business giant brought against the soft spoken woman was dismissed, our heroine turned around and sued the giant for conspiracy. According to an article in Businessweek:
After being sued by the […]
Some folks responded to yesterday’s post with a “Right on, sister!” while others were terrified, or thought I was nuts for advocating independence for older children. Have you looked at the map of pedophiles in your neighborhood? some asked. One woman wrote an impassioned rant about shooting in schools — um, that happens in one […]
The child in me was sad to hear they had to extinguish the torch five times (or was it more?) during the Paris leg of its symbolic journey to Beijing. The romantic in me is enamored of the idea, a single flame to travel the miles and light the night in faraway lands. How stunning. […]
I really wish I had met this woman, as she sounds incredible. Perhaps her habit of playing MLK’s speeches to her son have something to do with his unconscious oratory style that is so much like the King’s.
MSNBC is carrying Janny Scott’s article on Obama’s mother from the New York Times, and it’s a […]
The Brooklyn Young Mothers’ Collective is giving young women and their children the power, the skills, and the hope they need to succeed. Thanks go out to Trickydame, who pointed me to the organization after she participated in a Defenders of Love fundraising event for the Brooklyn Young Mothers’ Collective.
I love their mission statement:
The mission […]
The fabulous website, PEM: Corporate Babysitter (PEM stands for Parents for Ethical Marketing, btw) has sent out the call to make our voices heard. Says Lisa: “Working with corporations to ensure their marketing practices sustain healthy kids and families is a vital component of PEM. When I started on this venture last November, I didn’t […]
I have a pretty morbid imagination if I let it run wild. I think we all do, but we keep our fears under lock and key and padlock and vault and buried chambers deep in the underground of our psyche. Otherwise, we would none of us leave our house. Ever. For fear of being hit […]
Friday morning, riding the public bus to school, the King of Everything turned to me and asked, “Did you know, people with white skin are white people, and people with brown skin are black people?”
My blood ran a little cold. “Yes, sweets, I knew that. But I didn’t think you did.”
He leaned across me […]
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