October 10, 2011

{Let’s Talk About Sex} How A Single Mom Talks To Her Son About Sex

Thumbnail image for {Let’s Talk About Sex} How A Single Mom Talks To Her Son About Sex

By MICHELLE BOND When I close my eyes and think of my man taking me in his arms and passionately kissing me, I imagine us in a movie where the camera pans away to the beautiful star-filled sky and the time lapses and we see the bright early morning sunrise ...

read more…
August 16, 2011

I Made A Baby With the Devil: A Black Moms Story of Parenting and Domestic Abuse

Thumbnail image for I Made A Baby With the Devil: A Black Moms Story of Parenting and Domestic Abuse

By MICHELLE BOND Many years ago, I met a man who seemed normal, but was actually the devil. Well, not literally the devil. He was more like the guy the devil would turn to when he needed to be amused or inspired. This escaped me when we met and I ...

read more…
March 17, 2011

A Reformed Spanker Reveals Why She Wishes She Would Have Spared the Rod

By Michelle Bond Spare the rod, spoil the child.  I’ve been hearing that Bible quote since the moment I became a parent.  Elders in the church would recite it to me as if they were speaking in code like it was some kind of verbal wink summonsing me to get ...

read more…
February 5, 2011

{CoffeeBreak} My Son And the Knife: When Mental Illness Turns a Boy Into a Man

By Michelle Bond My son was a week old the morning his father threatened me with a butcher knife because I tried to wake him up to go to work. While our relationship was an abusive one, up until this point it was always at the venom of his words ...

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...
read more…