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What’s On Your Plate in 2018?

Posted on January 4, 2018
by Malaka
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Do you make New Year resolutions? I don’t. Not any more. I don’t even make goals. Murphy’s Law operates in my life with the efficiency of a bicycle and the ferocity of Eddy Merckx on the pedals. Whether horrific or splendid, every event in my…

Musings

Goodbye With Gratitude, 2017

Posted on December 31, 2017
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The year is drawing to a close and we are in the homestretch! 2018 is peering back at us over the horizon. 2017 has been a bizarre year, much of it in a good way. After the horrors that 2016 wrought upon us, it was…

Marriage

Mary Is My Least Favorite Character on ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’

Posted on December 26, 2017
by Malaka
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Watching holiday movies was never a big part of my family’s Christmas rituals, growing up. We watched A Charlie Brown Christmas, Frosty the Snowman and those early claymation flicks featuring Rudolph and Jack Frost, but that was it. Big blockbuster ‘must watch’ holiday classics like…

Motherhood

10 Great Gifts For Tween Boys

Posted on December 23, 2017
by Malaka
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Is your little man tired of receiving khakis, hoodies and socks for Christmas? Has exhaustion from exerting yourself all year depleted your creative capacity? Do you want him - like his father- to just be grateful for the gift of refined cotton?? If the title…

Madness

How I Ended Up On the Set Of The Hit Television Series, ‘Outlander’

Posted on December 21, 2017
by Malaka
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Ok guys. I KNOW it seems like this is the year where I’ve deliberately fallen into stuff (i.e. on my back being dry humped in a DC club by a random stranger or becoming the sole provider of reusable grocery totes for a local deli…

Motherhood

For My Kids: Develop Your Own Safe Space By Interrogating the Truth

Posted on December 10, 2017
by Malaka
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‘Bullying’ isn’t just a 21st century buzzword that is strewn about like bunting at a state fair – it’s a real social scourge that affects millions of children worldwide, every day. Bullying has measurable and serious consequences, including diminished self-esteem, depression and suicide. It’s not…

The South African Series

My Books Are Available on TakeALot.Com, And That’s A Big Deal

Posted on December 8, 2017
by Malaka
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Everyone thinks self-publishing – or any independent creative work – is sexy. There’s this aura of grittiness, the allure of the idea of that you can grind your way to the top, the crowning achievement being that indelible interview on Ellen or Access Hollywood. It’s…

Marriage

Prince Harry Ran Through A Field of Laoghaires to Find His ‘Meghan Donn’

Posted on November 30, 2017
by Malaka
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Mo nighean donn (Gaelic). Translation: My brown haired lass You’d have to be a fan of the series ‘Outlander’ to truly appreciate what I’ve done with the title of this post. And the answer to your unasked question is, yes. Yes, I’m right proud of…

Madness

Dear White People: Telling Black People That They Are ‘Not Like Other Black People’ Is Not a Compliment.

Posted on November 7, 2017
by Malaka
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I suppose I should’ve been ready for it. It was a Monday afternoon, after all. These sorts of things only happen during queer times. Like when the 13th of the month falls on a Friday, when the moon is full during its lunar cycle, and…

Marriage

There Are Days When I Still Mourn the Loss of My Maiden Name

Posted on November 3, 2017
by Malaka
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Do you remember your early middle school crushes? Did you ever play that game when you wrote your name and substituted your surname for that of the class prefect you only dared to admire from afar, fantasizing about the day you would be wed? I…

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