Whether you need to someone to help you move furniture at 2 p.m. or move the earth at 2 a.m., it’s good to have a friend you can call on. Friends with benefits – those benefits being sex with no strings attached – is the theme of two new movies (one coming out this weekend) […]
This weekend, yet another superhero-themed movie hits the theaters. This time, it’s “The Green Hornet,” about a crime-fighting pair who use martial arts to ward off the deeds of evil doers. Taking into account how hyped up my sons were after seeing “The Karate Kid,” we may have to pass on this one. But it […]
It’s that time of the year when most of us become ultra conscious of all the things we have been doing wrong in our lives and vow to fix them beginning January 1st – or January 15th depending on whether or not your resolution involves procrastination. Some of us will try to be more punctual; […]
Life is not always a smoothly-paved road. Sometimes it’s pretty damn rough – in disrepair – rocky from heartbreak, marked by potholes overflowing with disappointment and often impassable from loss, grief and misunderstanding. But even in the worst of times, I can still throw my hands up and scream, “I’M STILL HERE!” I can still […]
I recently conducted a brainstorming session with a group of women that I work with. The goal was to pick their brains about the type of content and discussion they’d like to hear on the TJMS. Intimate relationships, money and family were among the topics that these ladies couldn’t seem to get enough of, but […]
Father’s Day is Sunday, and the jokes, dissing, and pity party for dads who aren’t expecting anything from their kids and spouses have already begun. Well, let me say for the record, I’m not wit’ them. I look forward, not only to honoring my daddy and all the millions of good ones like him, but […]
So, how do you top off spending three weeks straight on the road with your co-workers, much of it on a bus with one bathroom? Hanging out at a strip club with a friend/date in NYC probably wasn’t the first answer that popped into your head. And it wasn’t on my bucket list either, but […]
Most working mamas everywhere have to travel from time to time. And unlike our male counterparts, in most cases, not only do we have to get ourselves on track; we have to make arrangements for our men and/or our assistants to do all that we do while we’re gone – line up homework assignments, drop-offs […]
Today, I’m packing up my boys and sending them out of town for a week for Spring Break, and, like mamas everywhere, I’m facing a universal dilemma: What will happen if their Nintendo DS runs out of battery power? And, God forbid, I didn’t send enough fruit snacks? It’s a new day for travel and […]
There comes a time in every black person’s life when it truly hits home that you’re black in America. My eight-year old son, Tyler, has now joined the ranks of those who have been initiated and is now a proud, badge-carrying member. But I’ll get back to that a little bit later. I wasn’t sure […]
Maybe it’s best that I have sons. Because the day my daughter would look in my eyes and ask me why men lie, I would not have an answer for her. I wish that I’d be able to say that was a generalization. But then, I’d be lying. Not that women don’t lie too; I […]
Are you ride or die when it comes to the advantages of breast-feeding? Or are you “lactate” intolerant? Nikki Woods and Mary Boyce – proud members of Mamas Gone Wild – have two differing points of view, and yet, almost perfect children. I – Nikki Woods – don’t care how many degrees I don’t have, […]