It recently dawned on me that I’ve never really shared how and when my marriage fell apart.  There was no knock down, drag out fight full of flying insults and hurtful name calling.  No smoking gun discovery in my bedroom. Nope, the beginning of my end started with a phone call.   A long distance [...]

Gina Stern is my favorite mommy BFF. Every so often, when we drop off the kids to our respective “wasbands”, we put on the Spanx , step into some killer heels and hit New York City hot spots like two young vixens—turning heads and taking names later.  When we’re not tapping into the inner mama [...]

In case you haven’t heard, there are a whole lotta great new things happening on MochaManual.com. We’ve gone daily and my new blog fomat will feature special days just to talk about special stuff. Monday is for inspiring Mompreneur stories, on Wednesdays I’ll be talking about the stuff we single moms need to know and [...]

Recently, I had an epiphany. It was actually more like a frightening realization, to be honest. And it came to me on the television set of a BET taping, of all places. During the taping, I was sitting next to a young black male who was just singing his mama’s praises. He spoke lovingly of [...]

When I was pregnant with my first child, I prayed to God that I would have a girl. This wasn’t a dress-up, little princess, mini-me type of daughter fantasy; I was just literally afraid of raising a black boy.   As new parents, we already doubt our parenting skills anyway, but I certainly didn’t know [...]

I confess. Summertime is the ultimate scapegoat. And I've been working it like a new job. It's too hot to exercise. It's too hot to cook. It's too hot to move. I've got a million of them. When I pass off tuna fish sandwiches as dinner, I blame it on summer. When I pass off [...]

Check out the Pics!    We celebrated the third release in the Mocha Manual bookseries and the launch of the new Mocha Manual community on MomLogic. Moreimportantly, we had a good ole’ time and put a hurtin’ on the dance floor.Check out our fabulous pictures, courtesy of photographer Chandra Lanier… 

Before I was married with kids, I was single and pregnant. I’ve committed my life to talking about having a “fabulous” and powerful pregnancy, but there was nothing fabulous about how my pregnancy journey began.

As a writer I have nothing but respect, admiration and possibly a straight up girl crush on Maya Angelou. So imagine my surprise when I received an email from a woman who investigates Urban Legends in some online forums, notifying me that my last post Today I Cried for Lost Black Boys: Sadness for Michael, [...]

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