Category Archive: commentary

Two Continents, Exact Message, Same Results

I have no clue why I’m constantly amazed by the low breastfeeding rates in Africa. I guess I’m still holding on to some ideal, stereotypical notion that all things in Mother Africa are… Read More

You Know You’re Doing a Good Job When…

…you check your blog stats and discover you’ve been visited by racists. When you click the referred link you find they’ve been discussing your blog (poor grammar, bad spelling and horrendous punctuation and… Read More

On How I Learned to Wean from My Cat

I was an unusually observant child. I noticed minute details in life that either got me in trouble, like when I repeated in public private conversations my parents had about relatives in front… Read More

Hip-Hop Isn’t the Root Of All Blackness. So What Else is New?

Thomas Chatterton Williams knows how to use big words, shape them into coherent, impressive sentences and accomplish getting a byline in the Washington Post. But adding substance to the conversation of hip-hop and… Read More

Breastfeeding in Darfur

After a pretty eventful Memorial Day, just slightly dampened by an hour of driving around in circles looking for a park, I rolled out of bed just in time to catch Bush’s live… Read More

Boobs and Briefcases

This July will mark approximately eleven years since I’ve been in the workforce. The last place I worked was in a major department store’s insurance division. It was meaningless, yet droll work with… Read More

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