And of course, I only saw this comment after I posted mine. The point I was trying to make, you figured out 39 minutes ago :)

The difference is that there is a long history of black natural hair being considered unacceptable. When someone is saying that no one combed Blue Ivy's hair, they are saying much more than when someone is saying that you haven't combed your child's hair. Although you mention that you understand that that happens, you…

Thank you for this post. Black women who choose natural styles and and black families that select these natural styles for their children (as opposed to treating a toddler's head with chemicals or intense heat that can both literally burn their skin) will also thank you for this.

Compuserve!!! We wasted SO much money on that service at my house. My poor dad, in the 3 hours between the kids coming home from school and wasting time on Compuserve's stupid games and my poor dad getting home and eating dinner and hoping to enjoy some exciting Compuserve, we ate up our hourly access limits like…

Should add that I finally deactivated my facebook after reading this—- they probably won't get a lot of participation, and I didn't sign up on their site or whatever, but I'm happy that I finally made the move. Of course, then I had to email a number of people to let them know that I'd deactivated and dropped off of…

no, your dad is adorable. Instead of going to a zoo and stealing an elephant and painting it green, he sensibly got you a knick knack elephant statue...completely different situation. this Sudan princess dad could have put a banner in the backyard, declaring the kid princess for a day, had a tea party with lemonade…

Why is someone with early signs of dementia still driving? When one of my family members started going through the early stages of dementia, we removed the battery from her car and made sure she had everything she needed and was able to get around with family members. One of the big signs that something was wrong…

this was a lot like my experience back in April. The first couple of weeks of "What am I missing" Passed and by now, I click into messenger sometimes to write to a few people but I don't use the rest of Facebook. I just came to realize that I didn't need to be in daily contact with people who were in my life in the…

my orange tabby was the best cat ever and did the craziest things all the time. Played fetch , sneezed like a person, climbed on everything and everybody. Decorated my whole apartment with a ball of yarn around every furniture leg while I was away on a trip. My Maine coon is much much more calm and she thought my…

perfection because they photoshopped the heck out of her face in that first shot. You can't even see a single pore. She's naturally amazingly pretty, it would be awesome if cosmetic companies used natural beauty a bit more in their ads and photo editing a bit less.

yes! I mentioned this catalog in my response. Thanks for finding it!

I presented a paper about lane Bryant's advertising over 100 years at a conference last summer and it is a fascinating topic. They started as a maternity wear company created by a woman named Lena Bryant with some of the earliest ready to wear maternity dresses and expanded into plus sized dresses later on. The term…

there is probably some kind of small print rule that Instagram users agree to follow when they post to Instagram—-giving Instagram ownership of content, for instance. Most likely, they didn't need her consent because she agreed to their rules when she set up the acount.

I agree with you, but as a sexual assault survivor (and my abuse included some photographs) I'm also seeing this from a more sensitive and maybe overly sensitive angle. Innocent and cute? Definitely. Completely within her right as a parent and blogger? I suppose. but if I were a parent I would never publicly post a…

Congrats to you for going! I haven't been in 4 years, and finally have a job with dental insurance and have a tooth that needs some help, and I'm still trying to nudge myself to make an appointment! I always feel like they'll lecture me for not going in such a long time, but they are probably happy that a person is…

And college board doesn't track the grades or graduation rates of sat takers so there isn't ANY way to know how they achieve in college. The college board wants your registration fees—-as many times as possible that's all.

Well, that's a logical argument.

Winterthur is a 30 mile drive from Philadelphia and an easy drive from DC or New York. Wilmington is not glamorous but the museum is a 175 room historic house, with a series of amazing gardens if you come in the late spring or early summer. so there's lots to see. I never did anything but drive through Delaware until…

Wow, that's crazy!!

The college board isn't going to have a score report for someone who took the sat 20 years ago. The GRE folks only hold onto your scores for 5 years. How are HR offices supposed to obtain these SAT scores? Not to mention that hr offices wouldn't be interested in any academic work you completed at 16 years old, so how…