Thursday Night Zodiac Open Thread

As of late, I have developed something of an obsession or a muse with Astrology. I have been asking everyone, random people even, what their signs are.
I am a Taurus, so being as stubborn as I am, it takes a lot for me to love something and commit to it, but when I do, you [...]

Let’s hear it for the GIRL!

Twelve year old Mackenzie Brown has an arm.  She just pitched a shut out against 18 boys in the Bayonne Little League.  That’s a perfect game.   According to Sports Illustrated:
There are no official records of how many perfect games are thrown per season. Little League Baseball in Williamsport, Pa., estimates only 50 to 60 occur [...]

Afrocity Says…Lets Hang up the Chick Habit and Riot Grrls!!!!

I try not to show it much but being recognized as a PUMA is very important to me.
I imagine myself standing in a room filled with PUMA women of all ages, colors and backgrounds. We are a circle of sisters who will not be treated like shit. A moral and intellectual force and we have [...]

Living in A Black Swan World

I’ve been reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Black Swan in between journal articles. Boston Boomer and I picked up on this book and honed in on the theory earlier this year.   A Black Swan moment or event is large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare.  The event is unexpected because its outside “normal” expectations. Here’ some basic information  from [...]

FOR RANDY ON HIS 38TH!

Tomorrow is the 38th birthday of my youngest child…”my baby”..How he hates to hear me refer to him in that way.  It is amazing to me that time has gone by so rapidly.  At 24 I was the mother of 4 kids under the age of 5!  And to think I survived those years [...]

Portraits in Equality: Spain

As our country slouches backwards in terms of equality for women and gays, thanks in large part to our homophobic, misogynistic President, it is very easy to become discouraged.  Barack Obama not only used homophobia and sexism as tools to win his election, he turned around and told women and gays and lesbians to “get [...]

Things I just don’t get

Parts of the past year remain a total mystery to me.  For instance, what made Barack Obama more of a Change!™ agent than Hillary Clinton?  Did everyone REALLY think that she was going to escort Bush to the door and then just slide behind the desk in the Oval Office, picking up business like nothing [...]

Are We Human or Are We PUMA?

Human performed by “Goodbye Elliott” — be sure to click Play
While searching for a “Killers” version of their song, “Human,” that I could use here, I found this heartrending one by the band “Goodbye Elliot,” performing in their living room in Hawaii. As a former grades K-12 music teacher, I have [...]

May God Bless and Keep You Always!

You — my readers, my friends, my family — have been my rock, my sustenance, my touch stone throughout this year.
As a community, we have all been that for each other — and for all of it, I give thanks.

And May Your Year Be Sweet — Filled with Chocolate and Sweet Moments

Who could have [...]

Prayers to Light Your Way – for BJ

The Empire State Building, lit up for Chanukah
in NYC’s first snow storm of the year, December 19, 2008
Dear Readers,
Chanukah, the festival of lights, more than any Jewish holiday I know of, celebrates miracles. In ancient Judaism, circa 168 BC, the second temple was destroyed in a war between the Jews and the Syrian-Hellenists, when [...]