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Notes from a bitch…match point…

Shall we?
Full disclosure – a bitch is a former high school tennis diva, a huge fan of professional tennis and the kind of tennis viewer who watches that McEnroe/Borg match every damn time it comes on to fill in during a rain delay at Wimbledon.
I fell in love with tennis because it allowed me an outlet for my anger and frustrations built up while being bullied as a young child. There are idols…people of color who I could always look up to…but there was also the amazing satisfaction of hitting the living shit out of a forehand after a day filled with taunts and humiliations.
I also fell in love with the ceremony…the rules, the sorta- courtesy ...

Shall we?
Full disclosure – a bitch is a former high school tennis diva, a huge fan of professional tennis and the kind of tennis viewer who watches that McEnroe/Borg match every damn time it comes on ...

Notes from a bitch…pondering the privilege of anger…

The recent arrest of Professor Gates in my old stomping ground of Cambridge Mass. sparked a national debate on racial profiling, the charge of disorderly conduct and class privilege. This bitch is more than a little pleased to see everyone from the President to my next-door neighbor to the sistahs in line at the grocery store discussing these issues. But I’m not pleased that one constant theme has been whether Skip Gates brought his arrest down on his own self. Some have said that he should have respected the police officer’s authority regardless of whether he was being wrongly investigated for breaking into his own house. Others have said that Professor Gates had every right to ...

The recent arrest of Professor Gates in my old stomping ground of Cambridge Mass. sparked a national debate on racial profiling, the charge of disorderly conduct and class privilege. This bitch is more than a little ...

Notes from a bitch…house cleaning…

My most vivid memory of my maternal grandmother is of her cleaning her house. She was incredibly disciplined about cleaning and started each day the same way – she’d put on a pot of coffee, tidy the bedroom, dust and/or vacuum, scrub down the bathroom, iron and lay out her clothes for the day and then fix some grits for breakfast. I spent an entire summer with her and marveled at the ritual and the sense of calm she got from it.
As an adult I took up my Grandmere’s ways, although not the every day part. Weekends are still for organizing, cleaning and preparing for the week. Not only is it relaxing for me to ...

My most vivid memory of my maternal grandmother is of her cleaning her house. She was incredibly disciplined about cleaning and started each day the same way – she’d put on a pot of coffee, tidy ...

Notes from a bitch…untitled…

This one’s for my sisters in the struggle online.
I was going to share some happy news with y’all today. My sister is a mentor and the young woman she has been mentoring for four years…through some good times and a lot of bad times…will graduate from high school this May.
Words cannot express how proud we are of her and how exciting it is to see how proud she is of herself…it is one of the most amazing emotional highs I have ever felt.
And I planned to share some of it here but I just read an email and I’ve decided to write about something else entirely…about who I am, why I blog and control.
Shall we?

This one’s for my sisters in the struggle online.
I was going to share some happy news with y’all today. My sister is a mentor and the young woman she has been mentoring for four years…through ...

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