- formerly Gabbing with Grace
I am racially Italian-American & African-American. I am a biracial, self-identifying, culturally & ethnically black American woman living in the segregated Midwest. I grew up in Detroit, one of the most segregated cities in America. I am often mistaken for being Latina-American & one time, white. Outside of the U.S. in countries as varied as […]
Dear Over Sharing Mama, I feel you. Sometimes, I confess, I over share because I feel woefully inadequate as a Mama. At least I think that’s why underneath it all. I upload copious amounts of instagrams appropriately hashtagged #momlife. Yet, as to motive, I’m in deliberations about all this. Hear me out. One time I tweeted, […]
netizen |ˈnetəzən| noun a user of the Internet, esp. a habitual or avid one. ~ The one that made me even more impressed with Donald Miller and want to rush out and buy his next book. My understanding of the Church has radically changed. Since Blue Like Jazz came out, I’ve sat in many a […]
Earlier today, I begun planning out my 2013 plans, dreams & B.H.A.G.’s. (Big, hairy, audacious goals). I made a date with Ransom at Target to do so… I believe an annual review of the previous year with a solid plan for the next is vitally important behavior for those of us wanting to live graceful, […]
There is beauty and brokenness in parenting. The heartache of possibilities held in tension with the fullness of joy is enough to make your heart explode like day old lasagna left too long in a splattered microwave….or something like that. It’s messy. Brokenness. I want to be a more engaged mother, a kinder mother, a […]
My little baby boy, Rhys is stuck in a rut. You know the one. My poor boy has fallen into the death trap that is allowing oneself to be defined by a mistake. The little punkin made his mistake more than a month ago. Apparently Rhysie roughly sat on his beloved “Becca-Becca” a super cute […]
I can’t believe I had never heard of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF before I became a member of the Global Team of 200 earlier this month. The more I learned about this program the more I wish I had known about it. As a kid, I would have loved to do something like this. And not to […]
I’ve been doing a lot of never-give-up tweets or facebook status updates. Even my Google+ bio reads, “Never Give Up.” Life sometimes feels like a giant fist and we measly little chumps start off as rock-hard punching bags, but over time are completely beat up by it. I hope I’m not coming off all woe-is-me. […]
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