music226 Music is on my mind - March 19, 2009 add/view comments (0)

Yesterday, I received some very unsettling news from a friend. He had just discovered that one of his very best friends had passed on. He had just seen her, talked to her and I can imagine that they probably shared a good laugh or two. His crying went right through me and I wished that I could find the right words to comfort him as he grieved for his good friend and one of the biggest NY Giants fans that he'd ever known. (besides himself)

I spent the better part of the day today thinking... (continue reading)

Most women have a list of what qualities they are expecting out of the One. How he will look, sound, act, how much money he will make, etc, etc, etc. Even if it's not written down, it's in our heads. I'm not knocking it because I have a list or two myself and since I tend to write just about everything down, I have my neatly compiled list stashed somewhere in MSWord on my laptop. This was not my first list. My first list I made when I was about 24 or 25. I had just attended one of the many... (continue reading)

In the black community it's not uncommon to find black women fending for themselves. For various reasons, black men are absent from our lives. It's not always a physical absence but there are times when the absence is emotional. Now, I'm not blaming black men for this. The fault is not always theirs to bear. This is not what this blog is about. I am discussing, rather with myself, the increasing tension between those of us who are out here 'doing our thing' vs the black men in our lives (or... (continue reading)