homeschool

  • Homeschooling Journey #2

    I was tracked as a kid. My mother, an immigrant, assumed that the educational professionals knew something she didn’t know about her troublesome girl child and let them put me into “special” ed. As painful and contradictory as that decision was, I don’t blame her. I understand, now, that she didn’t understand the context in…

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  • Today is my son’s 12th birthday. 12 years! Time flies and flies! Motherhood has, of course, changed me…for the better. Over the years since I’ve become a Mother, I have seen a lot of things that assault what it means, for me, an African woman who is consciously single, to be a Mother. Be clear,…

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  • Blerd Mom Chronicles

    Urban dictionary describes “blerd” as such: A nerd who is of African American decent [sic]. A BLack-nERD. Turk: “My cousins a blerd” Carla: !?!?! Turk: A black nerd. Based on their definition I am not a blerd because I am not of “African American decent [sic]”. It’s not necessary to go into my ancestry. Suffice it…

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