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Check out our new home makeover series where we show you quick tips that can covert your home into a den of luxury on a budget. Follow these quick decorating tips and you’ll have a fabulous nest that you won’t mind coming home to. Take a look: // Make Your Bathroom Festive This Christmas
If your man is all the friend you need, then try explaining to him why taking off your bra at the threshold feels like OOHWEE! then wonder why he says, “Like peeing in the snow?” We can’t know everything the other is feeling. We’re not psychologically, physiologically or, in this case, biologically equipped to do […]
Time is winding down, but if you are proactive instead of reactive, it’s not too late to take advantage of a few tax tips that can save you big bucks on your 2010 tax return! Any tax professional will tell you that the most beneficial tax preparation won’t take place in April; it begins in […]
Heard any of these before: What kind of mother would say such a thing? Any woman that calls herself a wife ought to do better. I would have never done it that way. In my day… Or, have you said them to yourself trying to squeeze into a mold twenty years too small? Are you […]
I didn’t think that I would get along with Berlin, Germany. Between the Berlin Conference where the European countries met to divide the African continent for colonization and the fact that at least 25,000 Afro Germans were killed in concentration camps, I felt no connection. Plus, how much techno music can one woman take? So […]
The state of America’s education agenda is mind-numbingly dumbfounding. Puns absolutely intended. The PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) evaluates by examination the scholastic performance of 15 year-old students among 34 industrialized nations. The 2009 scores of reading, science and math, concludes that the United States ranks 23rd and 25th in reading and math respectively. […]
You’ve got questions? He’s got answers! Need advice? Send your questions to Terrance: girlworkonyou@aol.com Dear Gay Best Friend, I have a question for you. I have a god-sister that’s constantly in competition with me, but she claim she’s her own woman even though I know better!! She tries to do everything I do from the […]
In continuation of Who’s Minding Your Children, I have compiled a few thoughts of my own and other moms about getting to know who’s who in your play-date circle: • Always suggest a neutral place for the first ‘date to ease the first meeting awkwardness. Chuck E Cheese (or the like) is great as you […]
FROM MARIE CLAIRE: Find out how you can save serious cash the next time your stomach starts grumbling. 1. Replace meat with an extra serving of greens to save some green — go vegetarian for a few meals every week. Stock up on your favorite veggies, and experiment with different recipes and seasonings. 2. A […]
So you want to know what to do in Harlem when it’s not Amateur Night or Showtime at the Apollo? Sure we now have big named retailers like Target, Mac, H&M and American Apparel and well known cultural institutions like the Studio Museum and the Schomburg Center for Research in BlackCulture but what about the […]
It’s 3pm and the school bell has rung. You’ve been delaying a play-date with ‘A’ for weeks when you finally meet face to face with A’s mother. Something just does not sit well with you but with two sets of puppy eyes tearing into your heartstrings, what do you do? Bid Adieu! When I was […]
