This will be an interesting week for my family as we are hosting a student who is staying with us. Helena will be a freshman and has been a student that I’ve taken care of academically this past school year. Her family and mine have become close and I agreed to take her for a [...]
Sometimes, I get lucky enough to *get review copies of books (which are always donated back to my school) to read and this month I have had two of them that held my attention for the past week. The first one, “Money Can’t Buy Love”, by Connie Briscoe was a nice bedtime book for me [...]
As I watch the story unfold about the Arkansas student Kymberly Wimberly I find myself uneasy about the facts being reported and how they’re slowly coming out, but I’m watching with great interest. The best possible newsworthy article I have seen thus far is this one by Jeneba Ghatt of The Washington Times. The short [...]
Sometimes when I read the comments on one of my postings I am struck right away and then I process it and figure out how I’m going to deal with it. It doesn’t always come with that caveat, but then there are times when I listen to something that a person shares and I can’t [...]
I’ve found a new website. I’m redesigning this one. FINALLY. It’s taking forever. But this is a short post just to say that summer is ending far too soon, I’m using “grok” a lot these days when I talk to people, and that there are interesting things on the horizon. Stay tuned. Summertime Swing by [...]
First things first: I’m writing a book proposal and it’s taken me longer than I thought it would but I got some good advice from a few published friends about that so I halted what I was doing and read three books (3!) on the subject on publishing non-fiction. Needless to say, it has set [...]
As it’s been a full week already (it’s Tuesday, people! Tuesday and it feels like it’s taken forever just to get here!) I should post the results from the hair product contest before people eat me alive. That would be bad blogging and I could get kicked out of the club for that! The general [...]
We have a few house rules in Casa de Mocha y El Cuban. One of them is that when I leave the house to get my hair done (cut, color, deep conditioning, etc…) it is required that The Cuban comment on it with a “Nice hair” or a “You look pretty” or even a “That [...]
Next month I’ll be attending the annual BlogHer conference again and I’ll be doing something that I haven’t previously done at the past six I have attended. I’ll be moderating a session. In the past I have been a speaker on several topics. Women of color and marketing, media, culture, self-reflection, parenting, and writing about [...]
Every year when I go visit the Evil Dr. Porkchop at my annual check-up, he tells me to get a mammogram because I need some baseline results. No, his real name isn’t Evil Dr. Porkchop, but last year they had a commercial for Toy Story 3 playing on a television set in the waiting room [...]
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