Wordful Wednesday: Summer in Paris With MyBrownBaby
I shared earlier this week the sheer awesomeness that was the MyBrownBaby summer vacation to Paris with the girlpies, Mari and Lila, and our son,...
Make MyBrownBaby THE BEST BLOG FOR BLACK MOMS
Ohmigod MyBrownBaby readers are the BESTEST! I mean, like, I heart you. I really, really heart you. Like the cast of Jersey Shore loves dranks....
Traveling In Color: Finding Diversity and Opening Minds on a Paris Vacation with Kids
I remember going on only one vacation when I was a kid to my aunt’s house in South Carolina. Shortly before we left, I caught...
Searching for a TRUE Media Image of Black Moms and Kids
By DENENE MILLNER It was a playground ditty as melodic as Miss Mary Mack, but much more ugly menacing, even: If you're white, you're all...
Home Made Love: I Love New York Cheesecake
By MARI and LILA CHILES For the past four summers, our mommy has sent us to cooking camp at Young Chef's Academy, where kids learn...
Nominate MyBrownBaby For A Black Weblog Award (Or Four)
The 2010 BLACK WEBLOG AWARDS NOMINATIONS are going on right now. Be a dear and head over there to nominate MYBROWNBABY for Best Personal Blog, Best...
Picky Eaters Plus My Dinner Table = A Recipe For Disaster
I. Can't. Stand. Them. Picky eaters, that is. They work my nerves with their empty forks and their I don't eat that declarations and their...
Black Moms and Ghetto Parents: They Are NOT One in the Same
Five years ago, Nick and I traded in our home in a lovely, comfortably upper middle class neighborhood in New Jersey for a house in...
Kirk Franklin's The Blueprint
My super-talented husband, Nick Chiles, recently realized his dream of being a New York Times best-selling author when a book he wrote with Kirk Franklin,...
Hennessy In My Starbucks Cup
Isn't this just the most delicious book title? I can't claim it; it belongs to my friend and fellow author Kimberly Seals Allers, who wrote...
Confident Black Girls
I get why my mother did what she did. When you're overworked and way underpaid, and you're of a generation that thinks kids are to...
Home Made Love: Strawberry and Cookie Crumble Sundaes
From their Saturday morning bacon, scrambled eggs and biscuit breakfasts to the pans of Gamma Bettye’s 11-cheese macaroni and cheese they whip up for our...
Salma Hayek, Kim Kardashian and "Creepy" Breastfeeding
I mean seriously: What gets people so worked up about breastfeeding? The baby is hungry, nature put milk in your boob to satisfy that hunger...
All Day Sucka: When Buying Pets For Your Kid Goes All the Way Wrong
This is what happens when you cave and let your kid take home a pet. They die.
Missing Michael Jackson
I didn’t expect my reaction—didn’t see the tears coming. But come, they did, when my girl Mitzi called the house and urged me to...
