Image credit: Art by hellvet2000 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "Worry Brain, your mama's so ugly, she makes onions cry!" I found myself saying after I got off the phone with my husband. I had to hang up the phone because I'd burst into tears, and now I was trying to beat back the [...]
Posts under ‘interracial marriage’
The Racial Issue
Image credit: Photo by GarySmith70 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "Mama, I'm half black, half white," Janie calls to me from where she's playing in the living room. I'd been wondering when this day would come, the day when my biracial daughter would finally notice race and start talking about herself in racial terms. [...]
Right in the Middle
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 [...]
Thanks, Random White Guy!
Image credit: Photo bysoundfromwayout on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons "Have you," Mark asked me after the kids went to bed last night, "had strangers coming up to you and congratulating you today?" "Um, no," I said. But of course I didn't. I'm white. Mark is black. And it seems lots of white people, giddy with [...]
Visual Assault
Cross-posted at Two Women Blogging It's election season here. Streets are lined with red, white and blue signs pushing various candidates and various positions on the issues. Several neighbors have large lawn signs letting the rest of us know where they stand. There is a tan house with white trim that sits a fair walk [...]
Review of The Sexually Confident Wife
When I received an e-mail from the publishers of The Sexually Confident Wife asking if I wanted to review it,* I was skeptical. After all, "sexual confidence" in our society usually implies acting like a porn star. I imagined a lot of Sexual Codependents' Magazine (ahem, I mean Cosmo Magazine) type fluff on "10 Sex [...]
Dirty Words
Photo credit: Photo bychristopherdale on Flickr When I was younger, my best friend Vickie and I used to hide under the stairs in the basement of my house and whisper curse words to each other in an elementary school act of defiance. "Asshole," I would say, and giggle. "Shit," she would whisper back, covering her [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Doppelganger
There is a particular celebrity who looks uncannily like my husband. I won't tell you which celebrity, lest you are walking down the street one day and, spying a handsome black man, think, "Whoa! Is that...? No. Oh, then it must be that sex addict with the blogger wife!" I will tell you, however, that [...]
