My mother graduated from Fenger High School on the south side of Chicago.I took my Kaplan College Prepatory classes at Fenger High School on the south side of Chicago.My family’s home is a short walk away from Fenger High School on the south side of Chicago. Derrien Albert was beaten to death.He was a student at Fenger High School on the south side of Chicago.He was killed down the street [...]
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So, in my other life, I’m a school librarian. I spend a lot of my time reading books. So the past week I finished two young adult novels,Keysha’s Drama of the Kimani Tru Series by Earl Sewell and Ball Don’t Lie by Matt de la Pena These were absolutely amazing Young Adult genre novels and I would definitely recommend them to teens and adults alike. However, what stuck out to [...]
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Always a bridesmaid, never a bride has somehow morphed into Always the baby-shower host, never the baby-shower honoree. I’ve been in this battle for about two 1/2 years now. It has had its great triumphs, where I’ve learned a lot about myself and my marriage and my body. It has had its truly awful times where I’ve felt like donating my fallopian tubes to science and calling it quits. [...]
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I hope I didn’t scare folk off….LOL. I have taken a step back for a few days because it was all coming out negative, and I didn’t want to be “that blogger”. But I also decided that if this thing is going to work, I’m gonna have to be me. As honest and open and even angry as I want to be. Which brings me to another point.I am a [...]
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Talk about making omelets out of broken eggs.Meet Tarah. ********************************************************************************** First a little bit about me and how I got here. I met the love of my life in 1997 and we’ve been together ever since. In 2005 we tied the knot and soon realized that we wanted to build our family. Sadly, growing our family didn’t come easy. We have suffered 3 losses and after the third loss I [...]
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…because sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying. 20. I can drink as much as I want.19. I don’t have to cut up anyone else’s chicken tenders at the dinner table.18. I can go on vacation and only be responsible for myself.17. I don’t have to pay for babysitting.16. Baby clothes can be expensive.15. I’m not good at styling children’s hair.14. I can drink as much as I [...]
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Close your eyes. Now, while they’re closed, I want you to map out the way you got to your locker everyday in high school. Got it? Okay, now, I want you to visualize what you would do when you got to your locker. Did you put books away, take them out? What was on the top shelf? Did you have a locker mirror on the inner door? Is that an [...]
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New name, new attitude, new push. I want so much to provide an honest and important space. It is so needed that I don’t want to mess up. So, I was spreading the word today about the new web address and a friend of mine actually said something that paused me. She said the new name was a bit sad. That took me for a loop. I had thought and [...]
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The following was submitted by a friend of the BBE. It gives a glimpse into her struggle with infertility and gives a brief definition of another unknown hurdle, Hostile Cervical Mucus. The Broken Brown thanks and salutes you Moe!************************************************************************************I didn’t walk alone … On July 8, 2005 my walk turned into a run. It was the day after two years of natural trying for conception that I was diagnosed with [...]
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