KICKIN' IT OLD SCHOOL
By DENENE MILLNER Now I was in my house Saturday evening minding my own business and watching my daughters make strawberry cupcakes for their little...
HANGING UP THE BELT: Finding My Way To The Time-Outs
By DENENE MILLNER She would look at you with those eyes. Piercing. Glaring. Cut. Throat. That's how my mom shut down all kinds of kid...
My Kid, The Next Last Comic Standing
So the little one came straight off the school bus and announced before she got up the front steps good that she's going to try...
CAN'T TOUCH THIS: We're Too Bougie For BET
By DENENE MILLNERSo I'm celebrating the New Year (read: recovering from my sister-in-law's smokin' hot/spirt-filled/sweat-your-hair-out New Year's Eve party) by lazing around and flipping through...
Yes, Mari and Lila—There Is A Santa Claus
This is how it’s gonna go down in the Millner/Chiles household from now on and forever more: Any kid who comes to my house talking...
Now That's Love Real Black Love
By DENENE MILLNERNo less than five of my girlfriends sent me links yesterday to a New York Times story boasting a headline that made us...
The Sun Will Surely Make You Black
By DENENE MILLNER This is what I did for fun when I was a kid: I read. I cornrowed my doll’s hair. I read some...
Mommy's Marvelous Macaroni & Cheese
By DENENE MILLNERIt seemed almost every weekend when I was little, my mom was taking us somewhere to visit with her best friends/church buddies/play sisters....
Thank Heaven For BFFs (And Birthdays)!
I had no idea that Angelou and I would hit it off like this. I mean, I met her in a whirlwind weekend back in...
This Is Much More Than Puppy Love
By DENENE MILLNER See, here's the thing about my new boy toy we weren't supposed to fall in love. He wasn't even my type, this...
