So, I’ve been thinking about this movement for a few weeks now, but was even MORE impassioned about it yesterday when visiting the doctor’s office with a friend. I planned to write out my response and feelings, but I knew it would be a rather lengthy post. So I videotaped it instead, and unfortunately, it STILL ended up pretty lengthy, but at least you can listen and not read. (See, [...]
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So you forgot to bring a gift to our birthday party? No problem! I know just what you can do for The Egg. If you could take just a second and mosey on over to BlackWeblogAwards.com and nominate the Egg for Best Health Blog Best Family Blog or Blog to Watch I would be EXTREMELY grateful.Here’s some info on the Awards via BlackWeblogAwards.com The Black Weblog Awards was founded in 2005 to [...]
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6 Comments YAY US! Well…Yay ME! LOL So, I wanted to get over here and chat it up about our birthday on the actual blogaversary, which was last Thursday, but Blogger was being a hater. Sorry about that. However, I didn’t want this week to pass without me shouting about my baby turning 1. So, I got some cupcakes for my cutie patootie logo girl and I’ve done some sprucing up of [...]
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No Comments So I took a week off…so it seems.In reality, I’ve been working on a LOT of things! I’ve learned that although I don’t always fully know HOW to do things, that NEVER seems to stop me from doing them. LOL I know how I want to help, or where there is a void, and I jump headfirst into it. I started this blog almost a year ago to pacify a [...]
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I’m a supporter of the vision that our community is not beneath others in the fact that we too can and do have strong, healthy and prosperous families. Aside from the banter I keep up here on the BBE, I am also a writer for ChocolateBrides.com, the premiere resource for brides of color. Yup, that’s right, I lay out the majority of my life, right here on the internet, LOL. [...]
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So…in my other life I am a librarian.Librarians fight against a theory called self-censorship. This is the practice where librarians choose to not purchase or shelve materials that they feel could potentially cause for some challenges by patrons. For instance, some librarians will deliberately not purchase an award-winning book, because it has profanity in it that some patrons could come complaining about, thereby stopping countless readers from acquiring reading material [...]
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Do you know someone who would benefit from listening to my rants and whines? Bring em over! And be sure to FOLLOW so that I know you’re out there! You can follow through Google Connect as well as Facebook’s Networked Blogs. To those who already follow my foolishness, thank you immensely…you keep me sane.
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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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1 Comment Birth Control? (Metformin, Prenatal Viatmins, Birth Control Pills) Since I’ve taken up this campaign, I’ve had countless friends and family members ask “Oh my gosh, Regina, are you saying these things because of me?” To them and everyone else, “NO!” LOL That is precisely the reason I’m opening up this dialogue! The problem in our community is not those who ask, “So when are YOU gonna have kids?” The problem [...]
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