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I've stated before that I wished that upon receiving my divorce decree, the judge had also handed me a field guide to dating. After quite a few dinners/interviews, I took some time to relate things I've personally experienced, and heard from others, about the types of "daters" out there. Using a sports motif, I put together a list of the most popular sports adjectives and how they might correlate to the dating game.

Please note, I intentionally used the masculine pronoun -... (continue reading)

Lately, I've become increasingly aware of how distanced my children are from their toddling, diaper-wearing, totally dependent infancies. They're definitely capable of walking on their own now, and thankfully the diaper expense has left the budget. As for the totally dependent thing? We're still working on that one.

For privacy reasons, I won't go into too many details on the continuing maturation of Thunder n' Lighting.  However, the one disclosable thing I will put out for... (continue reading)

or is Samuel L. Jackson the Hollywood go-to guy for angry black men roles? Though I haven't seen the movie, the pop-up ad for his recent effort, "Lakeview Terrace", made me start thinking along this thread: When Hollywood producers want to have an angry, screaming, emotionally volatile African American male in their picture, who do they call on?

Sam.

He's default to me now. Any movie coming out with him in the cast immediately receives my raised, skeptical eyebrow but... (continue reading)