Stilettos and 10-Year-olds: A Dad Says, "Aw, Hell To the Nah!"
By NICK CHILES This past Valentine's Day I had the pleasure of escorting two lovely ladies out on a date and neither was my wife....
WW: She's Growing Up, I've Come Undone
This is my baby. This weekend, I bought her her first piece of grown-up intimate apparel. Where did the time go? And how do I...
You Just Gotta Love That Black Girl Swagger
So it started with the Little Yellow Corvette Mari would wheel it up and down the driveway, whipping it around rocks and dipping between the...
The Brown Baby Hustle: Going Green, Singing Earth's Praises, and Getting Paid
Okay, so maybe I was being a wee-bit dramatic last week when I posted about how giddy I was that the kids were back at...
Home Made Love: Mari's Chocolate Sticky Bread
By MARI CHILES To start this off I just want to say that CHOCOLATE STICKY BREAD IS THE BEST DESSERT EVER! Just trust me: once...
New On the Parenting Post: What Tough Girls Are Made Of
The girl had Mari by a few inches and at least 20 lbs, and she wasn’t afraid to bulldoze my baby whenever the soccer ball...
Ha' Mercy: My 10-Year-Olds Body Is Too Bootylicious For Kidswear
I took Mari my first-born, my sweet girl, my baby school shopping this weekend in the ladies' section. It seems my days of buying pretty...
HAPPY TENTH BIRTHDAY, MARI DOUBLE DIGITS ROCK!
It was the day before my due date and somebody thought the girl was going to be a big headed, 9 lb. baby if she...
Tell Your Brown Baby It's Quite Okay to Be Brilliant… and Fabulous
My Mari’s always been the quiet one. Not the shy one, really. Just quiet. The kind of kid who’ll sit back, survey the land, and...
Just Call Her Little Nikki Giovanni: My Brown Baby Tries Her Hand At Poetry
Have mercy, school is over and there’s an avalanche of graded papers, old school supplies, and random art/science/social studies projects cluttering literally every surface of...
