Breaking Bread Barriers with ‘Soul Food Junkies’
As a child, my weekend breakfast menu was consistent: Aunt Jemimah buttermilk pancakes—with whole milk and margarine in the batter, and fried in more margarine—on Saturday; bacon and/or sausage patties, two buttermilk biscuits, and scrambled eggs with whole milk and lots of salt in the mix on Sunday. These days, if I eat pancakes at [...]
An Open Letter to Shonda Rhimes: Bring April’s Sexy Back
Dear Ms. Rhimes: Most of the time, I love you and you make me regret not sticking it out in L.A. a little longer to become a screen- and television writer. But I need you to do something different with April Kepner. I met Dr. April Kepner on Grey’s Anatomy for the first [...]
9 of the Most Memorable Moments for Black Women in 2012
On this last day of 2012, I’m sharing the moments from throughout the year that are most memorable to me when I think about black women in arts and entertainment, sports, politics, and life. Why aren’t there 10? Just because. In no particular order, here we go: 1. Whitney Houston Died I learned about [...]
There’s Something about Mary
I have a problem with obedience—not necessarily the action, but the idea of it. Obedience implies acts done with or without willingness, despite questions and absent protest. If you’re a fan of this blog, you know I question stuff all the time, sometimes just for the heck of it. That’s why something about Mary, the [...]
The Power of Male Teachers
When I heard that all the adults who died in the Sandy Hook massacre last week were women, one of my first thoughts was, “Of course they were; it was an elementary school,” and most elementary school teachers are female. Next thought: Someone is going to call for a national effort to encourage more men [...]
If the Mayans are Right
If the Mayans are right*, and the world does end on Dec. 21, 2012—does anyone else wonder if the end will roll over the earth time zone by time zone?—I’ll be happy that: I don’t have to pay off my student loan after all! I won’t have to worry about health insurance. This pesky [...]
Seeing Sisterhood Change
Many women have felt sorry for me over the years because I have no sisters. (No brothers either, FYI, but not the point of the post.) I recall an incident in college shortly after the sister of one of my roommates had visited. My roommate and I were both primping in front of the bathroom [...]
Promoting Inner Black Beauty
I was going over a long list of possible topics to blog about when I jumped on Twitter to procrastinate and saw the above tweets in my timeline. Evidently, I was missing the latest installment of CNN’s Black in America series. I’m not too sorry about this, as I don’t remember anything profound coming [...]
Handling Shade with Subtext: a lesson in writing and interracial dating
As a writer, I love subtext, and Shonda Rhimes does it brilliantly. The genius behind “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal” took it to a new level last night when character Olivia Pope, who is black, said this in reference to her affair with the president, who is white: “I’m feeling a little ‘Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemmings’ about this.” [...]
Getting on My Nerves (or why I want to be a fitness inspiration)
I was practically born coordinated. According to my mom, I walked before I crawled, and I tied my shoes at the age of three, the same year I began taking dance lessons in tap, jazz and ballet. So, the past month has been hard. I’ve been having pain in my hip and buttocks since early [...]
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