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Mar 31, 2008 07:53 AM
So I'm, like, omni-racial. My mother is African-American, Native American, and Irish. My father is Ukrainian by way of Brooklyn. In my late twenties I wrote a memoir about being mixed race, and what it was like to move between so many worlds and feel...
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Mar 27, 2008 03:48 PM
Since before Tenzin was born, I've had an obsession with getting him The Perfect Everything. I wanted every item in his environment to be stimulating! Beautifully designed! Made of eco-sensitive hard woods ! Developmentally appropriate! Even though I...
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Mar 25, 2008 02:46 PM
I give myself a C plus on re-entry, but until I have more to say about that, I have other pressing questions, like: Can somebody help me with the food thing? I can't be the only one stumped by what to feed my three year-old. So here's the deal. Way back...
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Mar 21, 2008 07:58 PM
I’m on the plane listening to Gil Scot Heron’s Save the Children on noise reduction headphones.Two more hours until we land, and I can’t wait to see that little boy of mine at the airport. He’ll look at me as if I left yesterday and we haven’t been video-phoning...
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Mar 20, 2008 03:03 AM
I decided to get in the pool. I took my book and my little bag of beauty products, determined not to let any negative thoughts about race or class get to me. Come hell or high water, into the pool I would go. It was all transpiring according to plan until...
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Mar 17, 2008 08:15 PM
I'm still on the business trip, but between engagements I decided to take a little "r and r" in my hotel pool. I'm in Arizona, one of the two last states to declare Dr. King's birthday as a holiday. A terminal at the Phoenix airport is named after Barry...
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Mar 14, 2008 06:48 PM
As I watched Obama walk the streets of Jackson, I searched the corners of the TV screen for landmarks. When Anderson Cooper announced Obama had won the state of Mississippi in the Democratic primary, I let out a scream. A birthplace is a mighty thing....
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Mar 14, 2008 07:42 AM
My son Tenzin is playing with his Legos on the floor by my bed as I contemplate packing for upcoming speaking engagements. Ten days, three climates: your basic sartorial nightmare. I'll need boots, I think, but maybe I can get away with only one coat....
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Mar 4, 2008 10:36 AM
My son is in a time-out at the moment because like many American parents, I can’t tear myself away from the election coverage, and he knows it. “Mommy, can I play with this?” he asks, holding up a wire clothes hanger from who knows where in his completely,...
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