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. [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Literary Nerds on Prince Caspian
Last night, my husband and I went out to see Prince Caspian, the latest movie version of the Chronicles of Narnia. As the movie ended and the screechy wail of a song started over the closing credits, the audience began clapping, and I with them. I shook myself out of the spell that held me [...]
Getting to Know Me
I was thinking of doing something special here on the blog to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, since I thank Dr. King and the progress made in the 60's for an easier, more accepted interracial relationship for my husband and me today. Unfortunately, Mama's not up to full strength yet, so I'm going to [...]
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 [...]
Top 5 Porn Searches That (Mistakenly) Lead to My Blog — and Why That’s a Good Thing
This is part of the ProBlogger Group Writing Project. The theme is "Top 5." 1. Sex AddictionI won't keep you in suspense: the number one reason people find me while searching for porn is because I blog about sex addiction in my marriage. Of course, the people who are searching for porn using the term [...]
Not in a "Blue State" Anymore
Six years ago, shortly before the 2000 presidential election, Mark and I went to visit his father somewhere in the mysterious region south of the Mason-Dixon. I was not looking forward to the trip: I'm an anxious traveler at best, yet here I was, hugely pregnant, boarding a plane to visit someone who routinely made [...]
