No, I’m not doing like the department stores and skipping Thanksgiving to go straight to Christmas. But my original cooking plan was slightly thwarted, so the new dish will be attempted in December. Yesterday I was talking to co-workers about the Thanksgiving meal and everyone around the table agreed that this is not the holiday…
I have never been one to make New Year’s Resolutions. If there is a goal I need to reach, or some affirmation I need to make, I can do that 365 days of the year. In the same way, I can’t afford to wait until Thanksgiving week to “be thankful.” I have been blessed beyond…
If you’ve spent M-F sustaining someone else’s dream then use Saturday’s to build yours! You can rest on Sunday! I read this tweet this afternoon from @TonyGaskins, as retweeted by my friend @MrFresh. I also read it as I spent another Saturday afternoon multi-tasking – between spending time engaged with my 3- and 5-year olds,…
WE wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes – Paul Lawrence Dunbar Last week my best friend and I hosted our first mini-makeup party. We invited women who had been asking me about helping them with makeup, along with a few other women who dropped by. But…
Yesterday I attended my first makeup party, hosted by our very own Calandra Branch. About a dozen women gathered in a Brooklyn church to share our own makeup fears and frustrations and get tips on how to overcome them. Calandra got things going by reaffirming what most of us believed but needed to hear every…
Every year for the past 6 years that we’ve been married my husband and I have alternated celebrating Thanksgiving with my family in Virginia or his in St. Louis. And each year I have to figure what to make to add to the meal. Not that folks require me to bring a dish, I just…
On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, the world lost hip-hop icon Dwight Arrington Myers, better known as “The Overweight Lover” Heavy D, at the young age of 44. Many were shocked and saddened to hear of his passing, a wave of grief spanning not just the hip-hop community, but stage, screen, television and other music genres.…
On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, the world lost hip-hop icon Dwight Arrington Myers, better known as “The Overweight Lover” Heavy D, at the young age of 44. Many were shocked and saddened to hear of his passing, a wave of grief spanning not just the hip-hop community, but stage, screen, television and other music genres.…
We know what the fall 2011 trends are – bold brows, jewel-tones, etc., etc…. But most of us already have all those items in our stash that will allow us to pull off all the looks we need for the fall/winter. Yes, it’s fun to buy and play in new makeup, but let’s take a…
A few posts back I wrote a short entry on apple picking and apple butter, asking for a good recipe. Well thanks to Calandra (good lookin out cuz!) a recipe was sent, which I tried out a few weeks back. It’s a slow-cooker recipe and when they say slow cook, they mean slow cook! It…
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