Since a few readers asked me about hip hop music that I listen to after reading my review of Thomas Chatterton Williams’s book Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip Hop Culture, I thought I’d list my favorite hip hop songs and artists of late. Truthfully, I have been putting [...]
When I was in the fourth grade my family left our Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago for the suburbs. While I have very mixed feelings about that decision made by my parents, I know they wanted a safer life for their daughters. When we got to the ‘burbs, I did what I always do: I [...]
What? Me post two days in a row in one week? Is the world coming to an end? (No, I just like to call this my summer posting series where I am far more consistent with the whole blogging thing.) Not long ago I asked for help for something that normally I would have just [...]
Everyone knows that person who loves to talk. They have the same things in common with which you may use to identify them. Most people are walking away from them at a rapid pace with a purposeful gait, they have spittle in the corner of their mouths from all the talking, and they probably have [...]
Several weeks ago I was asked to be an adult participant at one of my former middle schools at their Challenge Day. I had dropped by the school a few weeks prior to Challenge Day and was asked if I would like to be a part of it. “What is it?” I asked the dean [...]
My great niece who kept trying to take a nap in a roomful of people. She was folding back the rug and taking a couch pillow to get comfortable. Mallory was highly amused by this and Mason was just trying to get goofy in my photos. My laptop, the one issued to me by the [...]
Mallory’s birthday this year came and went, for me, in a flash. A slow-moving, dragging out all day, must get a ton of stuff moved to my new house flash. If that’s how flashes work. She celebrated it with friends who came to visit from St. Louis and, while I called her early enough in [...]
First, I owe Mallory her birthday post. That poor kid hasn’t even gotten a birthday card from me because I spent all day Saturday moving out of my rental home and moving to my purchased one. I think it’s funny that my youngest asked me, “Mom? Is this our permanent home?” as if to imply [...]
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