I knew I wasn't the only one!!!!

For all of those who just loooooooooooove Ms. Tyra Banks and her Oprah lite (to quote a fellow blogger), check out this article :

That Damn Tyra

I've often felt that Tyra was harder on her black models than she was on their white counterparts. I tried to attribute this to the "tough love" model, but for this last ANTM cyle, it just wasn't working for me.

That's as much as I'm going to say about ANTM. I think Rich does a tremendous job with ANTM.

I just couldn't let this one slide

Sweet & Sour II

Sweet

1) Tuna fish with blue cheese on spinach leaves with a drizzle of olive oil dressing
2) Pants that actually disguise my tootsie roll (that indeliable roll of fat that goes from one side of your waist to the other and sits on the top of your pants, uhh!)
3) Accessories
4) Craft day at my son's school
5) Talk Radio (it's my new thing I've discovered in the past few weeks)
6) Vanilla Candles
7) Breaks between semesters when there are only a few students on campus
8) www.akatrinawalk.com
9) Sugarbear's love of learning
10) cell phones

Sour

1) My tootsie roll
2) Getting up at 5:30 to start my day, I am definitely a nocturnal creature
3) Stilettos as the sexy shoes; why not ballet flats?
4) Expense reports
5) Strengthing nails after years of acrylics
6) The fact that he married her
7) Indecisiveness: mine and others'
8) Savage Nation
9) The end of Grey's Anatomy for the season
10) Packus Ratious: My inability to throw things away

We younger Negro artists...

"We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves." --Langston Hughes

Motherhood is....

Knowing that every morning you have a reason to wake up, if for nothing more than to fix him some strawberries & cream instant oatmeal

Learning you can love someone so much that you've only known a short amount of time

The ultimate compliment to your mother by instilling her values in your child

Finding joy in running in the rain with someone who finds it fascinating

The perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon

Knowing that you are much stronger than people give you credit for

Having a bond with a complete stranger just because you have that in common

A way for your parents to vicariously spoil and punish you at the same time

Showing a patience you never knew you possessed

Watching Toon Disney s0 much you know the schedule

Wanting to absorb the pain so that he doesn't have to feel it

Knowing that the pain will only serve to make him stronger so he has to experience it

Sitting in traffic for two hours just so you can get home and watch him write his name five times

Being late for work every morning so you can be there to help him dress every morning

Smiling when you see him tell someone they look nice

Never getting tired of receiving wild weeds as flowers each time he goes out to play

Giving him the last cookie just you're about to take a bite and he walks in the room

Not getting that pedicure because he needs another pair of tennis shoes

Proof that God exists and he smiles favorably upon you...

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY