Recently, I had a conversation with a stranger. I mostly recognize him as someone in my community, but I have no intimate details of his life. We chatted it up for a few minutes and then he mentioned having just read “The Help” and how much he enjoyed it. I must have made a face [...]
I have an entire redesign of this site coming soon and the launch date is past due because I was told to “keep low traffic on your blog” and then I went and wrote about racism. So, the launch is postponed for now because I have to finish this series (?) while I have the [...]
I’m not going to put anyone personally on blast and I’m sparingly linking in this post because the larger context is more important than pointing fingers and forcing one person or a community to answer for what I’m feeling passionate about right now. However, I am using some of the wording I’ve seen written about [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
*Attention, Language Police: I’m only quoting other people here.* **But I quote myself when I call my boyfriend “The Cuban” because I simply refuse to use his real name.** Last summer I wrote about having tried to get through Kathryn Stockett’s book The Help and I could barely finish it. Instead, I listened to it [...]
Mallory is, by far, the most well-rounded and thoughtful person I know. I normally try not to make sweeping statements like that about people, but she’s my kid and there is no one in the world who has been as close to me. While I realize it takes two people to make a baby I [...]
You know that look you give your child when he’s walking out the door and he gets into the car to take off for the first time since getting his driver’s license? That. That is what this post is about. But I won’t do the long drawn out narrative about how I know my fate [...]
Look, it’s been a long couple of weeks. We have some big life changes going on over here at Mocha Momma Headquarters and that doesn’t even include shutting down a school year that is trying to eat me alive. So, I have been absent lately just about everywhere and yesterday when I checked Twitter and [...]
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