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....
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...