Raising Hell Or Raise Them Well

Category: urban

A family that stands for nothing, falls for anything; What are your family's core values?

A family that stands for nothing, falls for anything. What are your family’s core values? That was the question I posed to people at the Soulful Chicago Book Fair 2016, a premier book fair for Chicago authors of color. It was the first book fair for my newly released parenting guide, “Raising Hell or Raise... Read more »

By Edye,
July 21, 2016 at 11:37 pm •

Jesse Williams' Speech at the BET Awards: A Black Parent's Perspective

I don’t do BET often. In fact, it had been close to a decade since I watched the network channel. I felt I grew out of it, put away childish things and settled on networks like OWN and the History Channel. But last night was an exception. The BET Awards was doing a Prince tribute... Read more »

By Edye,
June 27, 2016 at 6:57 pm •

Michael was My Boo, but Prince was My Side Piece.

Michael was my boo, but Prince was my side piece. Me and MJ had a thing going on since I was seven. Saw him jam on the Ed Sullivan show. My mom and I permanently welcomed him and his brothers to the family. The song, “Who’s Loving You” was a question I could answer. It... Read more »

By Edye,
April 22, 2016 at 8:15 am •

Michael was My Boo, but Prince was My Side Piece

By Edye,
April 22, 2016 at 1:40 am •

She called her baby a bitch.

My family and I were walking out of the convention hall after spending a couple of hours at the annual car show. Hundreds of people were entering and exiting. A family of six briskly followed the herd in front of us. Two women, one twenty-something, the other early 40’s, had four kids under twelve in... Read more »

By Edye,
November 2, 2015 at 5:39 pm •

This Blog vs. that Book

I’m guilty as charged. I sacrificed the upkeep of this blog to finish writing a book; a parenting book that is, aptly named Raising Hell or Raise Them Well. My feverish quest to complete the thing forced me to keep this blog in semi-limbo. But I’ve been writing and rewriting this book for well over... Read more »

By Edye,
October 29, 2015 at 12:32 am •

Losing It.

Losing it. How do you control what is going on in your life when you are left with no steering wheel? Not being in control is an issue for many of us, especially when it comes to raising your kids. They can piss you off. Sometimes that piss gets a little “stanky”. The toddler years... Read more »

By Edye,
July 29, 2015 at 9:54 pm •

Charleston Church Massacre: Blackhawks coverage trumped Black lives?

I heard about the Charleston Church Massacre via Facebook. I found some articles posted on my friend’s site. Nine innocent black victims were gunned down in an historic Charleston South Carolina church; An apparent hate crime carried out by a 21 year old white terrorist. At the time, a manhunt was launched to find the... Read more »

By Edye,
June 18, 2015 at 8:33 pm •

I Wish My Parents Knew...

Did you read about the Denver teacher, Kyle Schwartz who devised a unique way to get to know her students better? She asked her children to complete the sentence, “I Wish My Teacher Knew…” Schwartz received some honest and heart felt responses such as, “I wish my teacher knew… I have no friends to play with.”... Read more »

By Edye,
April 28, 2015 at 9:56 pm •

Learning history from Jet magazine under my Granny's shadow

Jet magazine was my childhood encyclopedia to real black life. I still remember the smell of pecans and walnuts in the wooden drawer of the inlay vanity in my Great Granny’s room. Yes, the smell of it with faint perfume of a bygone era, mixed with bobby pins cloaked me in a wave of bittersweet... Read more »

By Edye,
December 29, 2014 at 9:58 pm •

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