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....

– Mar 2, 2010

My Biggest Competition

By DENENE MILLNERFor Dove.com She gets on my nerves really this chick who's spent a lifetime making me feel wholly inadequate. Even when we were...

– Feb 25, 2010

Equal Pay For Moms NOW

She'd called me into her office, this lady boss of mine, newly charged with running what was then the 6th-largest newspaper in the country. Honestly,...

– Feb 23, 2010

Generation XXL: Michelle Obama's Got a Good Point, and We're Listening

I didn't appreciate my pediatrician's words at all and I'm sure my face made that clear, seeing as I suck at hiding my emotions. Basically,...

– Feb 16, 2010

All Kinds of Wrong: Padded Training Bras For 10-Year-Olds

When I was about 12, I probably single-handedly doubled my family’s toilet tissue budget with all the wads I stuffed down in my tank tops...

– Feb 15, 2010

John Mayer, the Biggest Loser

It’s not that John Mayer has a preference for white girls. Or even that the guitarist/singer said it out loud in a Playboy interview, no...

– Feb 11, 2010

I Am a Black Writer

EDITOR’S NOTE: I originally wrote this piece for my writer friend, Eisa Eulen, author of the novel, Crystelle Mourning, and the purveyor of EisaUlen.com, where...

– Feb 9, 2010

Evil Black Men

  It was supposed to be a simple assignment — a little something to remind the kids about their lesson on adjectives. Magazine and newspaper...

– Feb 8, 2010

Im Going To Sleep My Way To the Top

Oh, get your mind out of the gutter I don't mean that kind of sleeping! I'm talking, literally, taking my behind to bed and getting...

– Feb 1, 2010

Boy, Please.

So I messed up and left the house without my iPod (again) and NPR was still playing classical music (which I don't mind but wasn't...

– Jan 28, 2010
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