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For reasons unknown, enhancing the appearance of the “va-jay-jay” was a hot topic this week. I was most thunderstruck when “vajazzle” was featured in two of my favorite TV shows. Wanna wax? Go for it. Brazilian? Go bare, baby. But vajazzle? What have we come to ladies? If you’re not familiar with th

Back when VCRs were the latest technology in your living room, my then 2-year-old son got his first VHS movie: The Little Mermaid. I’m a sucker for any Disney movie that has singing but this one is STILL with me. And my “baby boy” will 21 in November! So what is it about this movie? [...]

It was July 2001, and I was 9 months pregnant. Due in just weeks, I was as big and round as a cage ball but not as much fun.  When you’re 9 months pregnant, you shouldn’t do more than sit on the couch in an air-conditioned house and watch “A Baby Story” on TLC. That [...]

We’re getting ready to do some renovations in our house, so everything is being shifted from room-to-room and excess is being purged. That includes my CD collection. While most of my CDs have been imported to my iTunes music library, I came across one that I forgot. india.arie – Acoustic Soul When I

I LOVE to write. It fulfills my curiosity. It lets me share in other people’s lives and tell their stories. It helps me organize my thoughts, which are often racing and random. I also love to find and share great writing. My favorite pieces are anecdotal – stories that suck you into a place in time,

I saw Sex and the City 2 last weekend with my girlfriends.  While I can’t relate to some of the couture fashions (especially wearing a vintage cream-colored Valentino skirt while making cupcakes), I could relate to the parenting stresses Charlotte and Miranda confessed.      Parenting is hard. You w

Dinner conversations with my 8-year-old son Evan are never short of interesting. Take last week, when I asked Evan how his day was. He proclaimed: “Mom, I was farting ALL day.” I’d like to say I took the mature high road, but…sadly, no, I laughed ‘til I cried.  It was no different when I asked [...]

I think I’ve been stingy with just how much info I share. Here. On Facebook. Anywhere. Maybe stingy’s not quite right. Maybe I’m just not sure that you care. Maybe I’m afraid you’ll judge me when I write a post that I’m sad. Or hurt. Or confused. Or exhausted. I’ve spent most of my life [...]

From the Writer’s Workshop at Mama’s Losin’ It… THE PROMPT: What’s so good about it?  Write an interesting poem or piece of writing where the last two words of the writing are ‘good-bye’. Forgive me Blog, For I Have Sinned Hello Dear Blog…it’s been quite a while since we were…intimate. See – I’ve be

No one ever asked me if I wanted 5 older brothers and sisters. But you don’t have much choice when you’re the baby in the bunch. No one ever asked me if I wanted to be squash-shaped. But I’ll never get a waistline even if I run and sweat and crunch. No one ever asked [...]