Raising niños in a mixed and matched world.
Kids in Hoodies are asking for trouble? Leave it to Fox & Geraldo to start another firestorm. I was disgusted tonight when I finally got a chance to sit down and watch this video. In a discussion with Fox News, Geraldo tells co-hosts that he has a different opinion about the Trayvon case. Here’s [...]
Multiracial Donors Needed! I have a biracial daughter and like many of you, I worry about her future everyday. I worry about her education, about how she’ll overcome other people’s expectations and about her success in a world that doesn’t quite understand what it means to be ‘mixed’. A new worry has come to [...]
I finally watched “From Prada to Nada” this week. And by finally, I mean that it’s been starring me in the face on Netflix and I’ve been avoiding it. Why? Well, Prada’s not my thing…I’m clueless about fashion, I’m deterred by stories about the rich life and I wondered…is this going to be another [...]
For a while, the “Sh*t people say” videos have been trending, but the real shining stars of all these webisodes have been the videos that both poke fun at and bring awareness to the realities of racism. While some of these videos aren’t much more than heavy satire, there are a rising number of [...]
Photography by Lucy Schaeffer {cover, stuffed pork chops p 137} Welcome to day one of my blog anniversary party! Happy Monday! :) Today, I wanted to share with you an awesome cookbook that I received recently and love! My husband and I are huge fans of Aaron McCargo Jr., one of the few cooks that we [...]
Mass grave at Wounded Knee Every time I sit long enough to think about Wounded Knee, I cry. There are so many images seared into my mind that make it difficult to comprehend those events, but one stands out above all others…the image of a nursing infant suckling at her mother’s cold body. I [...]
Screen shot via youtube.com A friend tipped me off to this fabulous entrepreneurial vlogger, Marie Forleo, the mastermind behind Rich, Happy & Hot and a business video tips extraordinaire! Check her out in this video about how to delegate in your business:
Screenshot via YouTube Last week, this YouTube video was circulating wildly and when I read the title along with comments like, “Omg…beautiful!” I just couldn’t help myself and I watched. What I saw was something I totally didn’t expect, that left me a little confused and a lot disgusted. Here’s the video in question… [...]
Last week I wrote a review of El Perro y El Gato, a fun and spunky new bilingual program from HBO Latino. My daughter absolutely fell in love with this series, as did my husband. As a promotion for their new series of installments in this program, HBO Latino offered a four disc set of [...]
Image Credit: HBO Latino { THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED } We have a new favorite at our house…El Perro y El Gato! I absolutely cannot believe that I haven’t seen this show before. All in all, it’s probably the best bilingual children’s show that I’ve ever watched…and that includes Dora and Diego (who we also [...]
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