Whose shoes are these anyway?

Susan Del Percio of the Lincoln Project makes excellent points in her opinion piece at NBC News, "Trump tweets Biden won — but won't concede election or stop fundraising. Confused? Don't be." S...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2020/11/self-obsession-is-killing-us-democracy.html

This list is a supplement to a longer list a college student is curating on Facebook related to African-American Studies. The student already has many excellent suggestions. I took the request as...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2020/09/black%20studies%20books.html

Absolutely precious. This adorable toddler in the video below is all over the parents and modeling their poses sometimes as they do yoga together in yard. The video made by day. MadeNmelanin on T...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2020/07/so-much-cuteness-adorable-toddler-does.html

"Say Thank You Say I'm Sorry" poem by Jericho Brown (Pulitzer Prize for poetry) recited by the indomitable and stellar Alfre Woodard.  #COVID-19 and #Coronavirus exposure #essentialworkers

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2020/07/say-thank-you-say-im-sorry-jericho.html

Shopping by motorized cart is something I've never done, and I still have never done it. I'm only sitting in one at the moment, watching the bright blue sky and people go in and out the Whole Foo...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2020/05/to-bitch-or-not-to-bitch-whole-foods.html

In February 2017, a woman from Great Britain visiting  Kentucky may have predicted a dark future ahead for the United States of America, Shot of Bourbon reports. But does it really take a ps...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2020/05/british-woman-foretells-americas-future.html

The coronavirus can last on surfaces, including cardboard, for up to 72 hours, a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine says. So, you’re at the pharmacy where you may have touche...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2020/03/sanitize-your-hand-sanitizer.html

Yes, you can feel happier despite Covid19. Humans can hold dueling thoughts in their heads and survive. For instance, we have the ability to compartmentalization, and that’s not always a negati...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2020/03/7-tips-to-help-you-kick-coronavirus.html

Credit Honey Yanibel Manaya Cruz at Unsplash.com The headline of this blog post comes directly from "The Confrontation" episode of Invisibilia, one of the many podcasts I subscribe to. ...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2020/03/i-dont-care-about-your-white-feelings-i.html

This evening, I saw a guy at Rouses Supermarket in the Metairie, Louisiana. He had three items in his cart: A 12 pack of toilet paper, a case of beer, and a large cake.  An older woman in th...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2020/03/rouses-supermarket-became-corona-virus.html

I haven't posted at this blog in quite a while, but I had to make it public again. Hearing about 6-year-olds being arrested at school or dragged off to mental health wards without their parents' ...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2020/02/6-links-to-help-you-sort-6-year-olds.html

The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, PA. Would you like a less academic way to learn about unconscious and conscious racial bias? Were you puzzled by the Philadelphia police commissioner's stance or...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2018/04/starbucks-while-black-incident.html

I finally found time to watch this Comedy Central video that my friends have been sharing on Facebook, 3Peat Presents: The Blackening - Uncensored. Brilliantly hilarious.

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2018/04/3peat-presents-blackening-uncensored.html

Listening to Prince this morning, my face flushed with anger. This is nothing new, my finding myself in a purple place of brooding, finding again that I am still pissed at Prince for letting hims...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2018/01/moments-you-know-you-still-grieve-prince.html

Meghan Markle with her mother Doria Ragland at Ragland's graduation from USC. Those of you who live to quantify blackness may debate just how black the royally engaged Meghan Markle is later...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2017/11/yes-prince-harry-is-engaged-to-black.html

Delivered to my email today from Poets.org, this love poem by Sarah Browning entitled "Praisesong." A contemporary poem about lovers in midlife -- how refreshing. Here are the first seven lines: ...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2017/11/in-praise-of-midlife-love-is-that-thing.html

So, one day you look down. Your feet are in shoes you don't recognize. Maybe you like them, maybe you don't. You can always change shoes. . . . Reinvention! . . . Your life begins here.

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2017/09/hot-8-brass-band-cant-nobody-get-down.html

Full concert is on ReverbNation, Jonny P. Live at the Cotton Mill. From his bio on ReverbNation: Jonny P is a soul artist and fashion designer who was born in New York City. This Nashville-based ...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2017/09/jonny-ps-shine-on-this-singer-deserves.html

(Initial post was at Jersey Goddess in 2004 or 2005.) First post of the month as I try to NaBloPoMo, the National Blog Posting Month project that pushes participating bloggers to post one blog pe...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2008/12/robin-sloans-epic-again-or-google-takes.html

I do genealogical research. As a result, I sometimes search old newspapers, and from time to time, I am drawn to stories like the one in the screen shot that are written more like fiction than fa...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2017/06/teen-kills-himself-after-woman-45.html

So, one day you look down. Your feet are in shoes you don't recognize. Maybe you like them, maybe you don't. You can always change shoes. . . . Reinvention! . . . Your life begins here.

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2017/04/research.html

I came across this treasure on YouTube, His Purple Highness performing songs from The Vault:  Old Friends for Sale and other jazz pieces in a Los Angeles concert, 2009. I bought a copy ...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2016/08/prince-plays-songs-from-his-vault-in.html

I was so deep in the academic hole for the first six months of the year that I completely missed news about the movie Southside with You, the story of Michelle and Barack Obama's romance. Th...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2016/08/southside-with-you-obamas-love-story.html

Almost a month has passed since Rattle Magazine published my poem "Digital Anthropologists Find Our Hashtags" for its Poets Respond series. The poem explores specifically the consecutive shooting...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2016/08/rattle-magazine-published-my-poem-last.html

Rolling Stone has posted video of Matt Damon telling a great Prince story on the Jimmy Fallon show.  Of course, all Prince stories bring me joy except the one about his passing in April. Dam...

https://www.goddessblogs.com/2016/07/great-prince-story-from-matt-damon-video.html