Image credit: Photo by timtom.ch on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Last week, I was walking with my daughter. As she dashed out ahead of me, racing up a small hill, a girl of about ten years old, approached me from behind. I've seen her around a few times recently, and she knows who Janie [...]
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Happy Loving Day
Photo credit:by Fazy on Flickrwith thanks to BizyLizyfor finding it first Today is Loving Day. Forty one years ago today, in the case of Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court passed down a unanimous decision legalizing interracial marriage. A little over thirty years after that decision, a black man and a white woman who [...]
Love You Just the Way You Are
My husband was talking to a relative this weekend who told him she was praying for our son: praying for God to take away his autism. My husband says he told her, "I really appreciate how much you love our son, but you don't have to pray for his autism to be gone. Our son [...]
Aphra Behn Interviews Me: Part 1
Aphra Behn has very kindly indulged my wish to be interviewed (again). I already participated in an interview with Jen of Stay-At-Home Motherdom, but it was such fun, I couldn't resist doing it again. As with that interview, I am going to turn this one into five full days of blog posts. Why kill the [...]
My Beautiful Kids (Not Pictured!)
My husband is black, I'm white, our kids are biracial. Before they were born, I used wonder what they would look like and whether anyone would recognize me as their mama. I once had a dream that my son was born looking like Gabe Kaplan (of Welcome Back, Kotter) complete with the mustache: my baby [...]
