The frantic call came few Mondays ago as I prepared for a circle time: “The Bee fell at school during gym and chipped her front tooth! Can you call her dentist, I don’t know the number.” Annoyed with her dad (why don’t dads EVER know the number to anything) I pushed that aside to ask if she were OK. He…
Words and thoughts from Rachée
So last night I went to see Chris Rock’s docu-dramadey Good Hair. This is not a new subject for me; hair talk has been and is a ‘thing’ that just is. Everybody’s got their something and for scores of Black Women, including yours truly, that something is hair. For those not in the know, Good Hair was born from Chris…
A few months back a friend of mine invited me to become a part of a book club. Honored, she considers me a professional (!) and she is using the results of the meetings as part of a project for her pHD, I was also selfishly excited to have adult books to read. Dutifully I have been reading the assigned…
And gratuitous shots of The Bee.Here is the scarf that I made using the pattern I found at Nangellini’s Gallery. This scarf was pretty easy to complete however it took me a while to finish because I am a pretty slow crocheter these days (what’s that all about?). Modeling it is Top Model wanna-be, DQ in the making, often imitated,…
…National Punctuation Day! Here are some of my favorite snarky blogs about misused, abused and wrongs punctuation. Apostrophe Abuse: Please think before you tell someone that you meet Thursday’s or inform someone that you have ‘Cold Soda’s!’. Apostrophe Catastrophe: See above, also, what an awesome title! The Blog of Unnecessary Quotes: While I love me some “quotation marks” I do…