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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s safe to say the when you have a major event occur in your life you recall the details with tenacious clarity. When my friends tell me stories of the important things in their lives they do so in just that manner. There isn’t always a lot of fuzziness to their memory unless it’s particularly [...]
*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 [...]
*Disclaimer: Somehow I am going to manage a post that combines race and blogging and pop culture (admittedly, from the 80s) and some experiences about being black. I will probably not master all of those things and this will be a little uncomfortable. Trust me when I say that this isn’t an easy place to [...]
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