Everybody Loves the Sunshine: Finding Joy in Blackness
"Speakeasy with Denene" closes its first season with password, SUNSHINE, paying homage to my hero, my dad, and literary giant Nic Stone and Angie Thomas.
Christmas Cocktails: #TalkEarly About Responsible Holiday Drinking
Staring at the bottom of a cocktail glass isn't the best way to de-stress for the holidays—or the best example for kids. Here, healthy ways to survive the holidays, in partnership with responsibility.org.
Happy New Year and a Promise to #TalkEarly To Kids About Alcohol
Forget about "Dry January." Here's why you should #TalkEarly–and often, for the entire year—to your kids about alcohol.
A MyBrownBaby Weekend: Jem and the Holograms
Who can argue with Jem and the Holograms, a movie that encourages tween and teen girls to take off the mask and be their authentic selves?
Talking Free Range Parenting On NPR: Apparently I’m a Crap Mom For Not Letting My Kids Run Amok
No, I don't think it's cool to let kids roam in the park unsupervised for hours at a time. You can hate me now.
Sibling Fighting: It’s like Mayweather v Pacquiao. Except They’re (Slightly) Smaller and More Brutal.
Sibling fighting is inevitable. But you can teach your kids how to work it out.
Totally Lila and the Awesome Haiku: Celebrating My Baby’s Poetry
Turns out my baby, Totally Lila, is pretty gangsta with the haiku—so gangsta that she's being honored by a celebrated children's book author and poet.
When Is It Okay To Let Girls Wear Makeup?
In the MyBrownBaby household, one need not even ask until high school—and even then is questionable.
Ashy Knees and Dry Hair: When Mixed Children Grooming Raises Eyebrows Abroad
Mixed children grooming becomes all the more precarious in foreign countries where racial stigmas aren't as obvious as here in America.
“With This Ring”: Yo! My Book Is A New Lifetime Movie!
The debut of "With This Ring," the new Lifetime movie based on "The Vow," the novel I co-authored with Angela Burt-Murray and Mitzi Miller, has me feeling some kind of way. Pass the tissues.
