Recently, I was at a coffee shop playgroup with friends and a man whom none of us knew pulled out his camera and took a picture of three of our girls. It’s not quite as sordid as it sounds. He had a preschool aged boy with him. The boy, he said, was his son. I [...]
Categories: Austin, Fear, Life, Motherhood
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Tags: Annika, Motherhood, Parenting
This morning I logged into my email and was aghast to find an email from the producer of The Gayle King Show. She wanted to know if I would be interested in being interviewed for a segment on tomorrow’s show about moms who drink wine or smoke marijuana to relax. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! That was pretty much [...]
Categories: Alcoholism, Fear, Life, Meditation, Motherhood, Uncategorized
| Tags: Drunk blogging/Dr-logging, Motherhood, Random crap
We went to a Wizard of Oz birthday party yesterday. It was the most creative party we’ve been to yet. That’s one of the things I love about Austin. The parents don’t try to out do each other on fancy parties. For the most part, they are just trying to make their kids happy. This [...]
Everyone in Austin has been complaining about the heat lately. Apparently we’ve had temperatures well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the past couple of weeks. I say apparently because I’ve barely noticed it. I mean, sure, I can tell it’s hot. But I like it hot. I love the heat. I like to sweat. I [...]
Categories: Life, Texas
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It seems strange to think that Annika will be starting preschool in August. Yes, we’ve picked a preschool and she’s enrolled. We went with the school that had less diversity. Even though there are no other African American children in the school, we decided that ultimately, the school with the better educational prospects was better [...]
Categories: Life, Motherhood, Uncategorized
| Tags: Annika, Parenting, School
Apparently, single black fathers are challenging negative stereotypes, and emerging on the scene of single fatherhood as better dads than other single dads. I woke up this Father’s Day to read this article. In general, the study quoted in the article showed that overall dads are more involved with their kids than ever before. Even [...]
Categories: Fatherhood, Life, Race, Racism
| Tags: Annika, Bi-racial, co-parenting, Holidays, Racism, Stereotypes
Cold Brew Coffee. Yesterday I brewed my second batch of cold brew coffee, for the summer. I fell in love with cold brew coffee about four years ago when I happened upon this NYT article. I was intrigued, and knowing how much my best friend loves coffee, I sent her the article. She actually went [...]
Categories: Life
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One of the cool things about being the mom of a biracial child is that I feel like I’m bridging a gap. My posts on race are written from the perspective of a white woman in a country that has a history of racial tension. Even though much of the blatant racial tension is gone, [...]
Categories: Bi-racial, Life, Motherhood, Parenting, Race, Racism, Uncategorized
| Tags: Annika, Bi-racial, Parenting, Race, Racism, School
And so it begins. The realities of raising a child who straddles two worlds. The worlds that divide her between skin color and socioeconomic status. I’ve been touring preschools. Recently, I toured a small school on the east side of Austin. It was filled with mostly dark-skinned children, Hispanic and black. The teacher, in what [...]
Categories: Austin, Bi-racial, Life, Motherhood, Race, Racism
| Tags: Annika, Bi-racial, Motherhood, Race, Racism
