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Barbara resides in the Single Motherhood with her daughter where she is currently finishing up work on a BA in Gender & Women's Studies. Check her out at A Place of Comfort.
 
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Spring is springing

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I know so because rain drops have been replaced, if only temporarily, with sunshine, and my purse is now stocked with Benadryl.  Although Spring doesn’t officially arrive for another couple of days, the sweet smells of colorful flowers and bright green grass and full trees are doing a number on my nose and eyes.  Luckily, my daughter isn’t bothered with alergies so she is free to enjoy nature, while her mother works at trying not to puff up like a blow fish and scare the innocent park dwellers.  But even with the tears and the itchiness, Spring is still an enjoyable time of the year because, with it comes a kind of renewal.  A renewal of life.  Like the buds on bushes, and the new leaves amongst the trees, I want to blossom this season – in love, in spirit, in purpose.

What do you enjoy most about Spring time?

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What will come of us?

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Its not always easy to put into words the experience of growing up in a rough neighborhood, one where drugs and crime have the upper hand. I remember being almost immune to the sound of gunshots because they were so common. I also remember, one morning on my way to

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Growing pangs revisited

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Last week, my daughter pulled a stunt that got me thinking about the stages of childhood.  Infancy, toddlerhood, the preschool phase and adolescence.  The level of creative thought behind said stunt made it clear to me that we are well approaching the stage of adolescence.
That beautiful, bright-eyed angelic figure you

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Like mother, like daughter

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Both, my daughter and I, have been very blessed over the past 6 years, to be surrounded by individuals who are all heading in the same direction.  We live in a relatively safe community of students, with an elementary school in a good district, right in our backyard.  This was

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My brother’s keeper

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When I was about 8 years old, my grandmother made the decision to adopt a new baby.  It was a beautiful gesture, considering the fact that this new baby was coming from a drug addicted mother, who happened to also be a cousin.  Not only would this baby have the

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Death of a Black Woman

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A really good friend shared this poem with me a while back and I found it to be very moving and powerful.  A great testament to the strength of the black woman, and how we both play into that strength and sometimes get played by that strength.  Unfortunately the author

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American girl

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As I sat and looked through an American Girl catalog that I received in the mail, I was both fascinated and horrified by what it contained.  Its a catalog of baby dolls and accessories for girls ages 3 and up.  Not much harm there, right?  What little girl doesn’t have

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Dating and the single parent

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What do you call a single mother who has a boyfriend?  Well, you’d still call her a single mother…
I know a host of people who have mixed feelings about ready-made families. I’ve heard everything from “I don’t date women with kids” to “I’m not trying to be nobody’s mama”. My

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Mama bears on the move

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Appropriating the thoughts of Denene of My Brown Baby, here is “yet another reason why mothers totally rock.”  In the case of student parents at the University of California, Berkeley, its yet another reason why student mommies totally rock!
Introducing:  The Bear Pantry.  The brain child of my friend, and fellow

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Living Single

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As a single mother, I have grown accustomed to being the boss.  I don’t have to check in with anyone to see if its ok to have company over, give a friend a ride home, or invite a friend and her children along on an outing.  I have to say,

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Little Asian girl in a bubble

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Sometimes I have to keep reminding myself that not everything in life is obvious, that our notion of “common sense” is simply the core of what ideologies are based on, and that in a world of difference we will never stop learning from each other.
Asian Girl In a Bubble: Are

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A sext(ual) healing

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I originally talked about the cultural phenomenon of “sexting” at A Place of Comfort, but after watching Tyra’s Teens and Parents Sex Summit earlier this week, I thought it could be beneficial to bring the discussion over to Moms of Hue.  It was beyond shocking to hear the teens on

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