Last night, I channeled my inner-teenager to watch the latest series in CW’s popular YA-book-to-TV-show formula. How did it go? Well, teen me didn’t exactly squee. Here’s my report on the THE SECRET CIRCLE: Overview A newly orphaned Cassie, returns to her mother’s small hometown to move in with her grandmother. She quickly attracts new [...]

So folks, I should start by saying I am not Zack Bunker. Zack is on vacation, chilling or doing what cool guys like Zack do, so this week you are stuck with me. I know, I know…but hey, this is not a picnic for me either. In order to write this recap, I had to [...]

I chose this article because even looking back on it I am surprised that is spawned such a heartfelt, deep and thought-provoking discussion on race and identity both here and on Facebook.   It also made me think further about how, if at all, parents should try to shape their child’s racial identity.  I have [...]

I was recently offered a new job.  It is an amazing opportunity and I am honored to have been offered the position.  Plus I have been incredibly unhappy in my current position for some time.  So it took everything in my power not to just leap at the idea of taking the position when it [...]

Kindergarten is a German word that literally means “children’s garden.”  According to Wikipedia, kindergarten “is a form of education for young children that serves as a transition from home to the commencement of more formal schooling.  Another definition, which overlaps with early childhood education and preschool, is education for pre- and emergent-literate children before the [...]

So Harold Camping was wrong…or partially wrong. Harold Camping is an American Christian radio broadcaster and he is president of Family Radio, a California-based, multi-million dollar radio station that spans more than 150 markets in the United States and boasts hundreds of thousands of listeners. Several thousands of these listeners quit their jobs, emptied out [...]

A little over a year ago, I went to see Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.  The film, loosely based on the Lightning Thief a novel by Rick Riordan, is about a kid who discovers that he is a half-blood or a child of a human and a Greek god. After a summer [...]

When I was growing up I got spankings (or beatings as the older black women in my family called them).  I am not sure when I got my first spanking, but I know that spankings were regularly used as a form of punishment in our household.  My mom used a belt and my very southern [...]

So I am driving into work last week and I am listening to some pop station.  The disc jockey is going on and on about The Black Eyed Peas recent performance of their new single, “Just Can’t Get Enough” on American Idol. But it wasn’t the song that he was droning one about, it was [...]

My heart is heavy as I watch events unfold in Japan. According to the Los Angeles Times, “more than 1,000 bodies wash[ed] ashore in Miyagi prefecture, the northeastern area hardest hit by the magnitude 8.9 quake that struck offshore on Friday and the devastating tsunami it triggered.  [Moreover], the Japanese fear “that the death toll [...]