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Duncan & Paulette: Canvassing

January 26, 2012 by Paige Turner 0 Comments

Duncan and Paulette encounter each other at a mutual friend’s house during an Obama for America 2008 event. After Paulette gains more insight into how Duncan sees the world, she begins to change her attitude about him. The friendship between the Simmonses and the Barrowses cools off considerably, as they stick by Ralph and Paulette, [...]

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Something New: Awkward Black Girl Made Her Choice

January 13, 2012 by Paige Turner 0 Comments

Ever since I read an item about Issa Rae in Essence magazine, I’ve been following the ups and downs, victories and defeats of J, the central character on the hit Web series “Awkward Black Girl.” J is an appealing character, the type of woman who is intelligent, pretty, sensitive and operates with empathy for others. [...]

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‘Something New’ + Natural Hair = Hilarious Video

January 5, 2012 by Paige Turner 0 Comments

It takes a lot of spunk to be a black woman who gets up on YouTube to talk about her hair journey. Some of us introverts would sooner DIE! But only a real man, who happens to be white and married to a black woman, can get up there to crack jokes about his “bald [...]

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A Christmas Story

December 25, 2011 by Paige Turner 0 Comments

Most adults can maintain the Santa Claus mystique for young kids, and deftly, too. A couple years ago my cousin Melinda and her husband Jeff curbed their son Walter’s naughtiness by making him write a letter of apology to Santa Claus. Parents have staged phone calls from the North Pole workshop and jingled sleigh bells [...]

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The Black Friday Plan

November 23, 2011 by Paige Turner 0 Comments

The National Foundation for Credit Counseling Services doesn’t want to see Americans pile on more debt than they can or should reasonably handle during the holidays. So they distributed a list of tips to take buyer’s remorse out of the high holiday shopping season. If nothing else, I think black moms, and moms everywhere, ought [...]

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Duncan & Paulette: Market Meltdown

November 20, 2011 by Paige Turner 0 Comments

Losing a fiancé and a good friend qualifies as a crappy way to end an evening, and that sums up the fallout for Paulette following Ralph and Duncan’s disastrous run-in at their friend’s wedding. Paulette tries to handle everything like a trooper, while her mother and father launch a salvage operation. Duncan finds out that [...]

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Rowing Along

October 31, 2011 by Paige Turner 1 Comment

Hubby enrolled Baby in swim lessons recently, an activity that will build her confidence and competence in the water. Who knew that this development would also build my confidence and competence about braiding her hair in protective styles? Here are a few shots of the several cute and functional styles I did for her. Baby’s [...]

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Let It Snow!

October 31, 2011 by Paige Turner 0 Comments

I officially love snowstorms. Especially ones that halt anything but essential activity within hundreds of miles of its core. Saturday’s wet and out-of-season storm rescued me from attending a neighbor’s Halloween costume party. It’s an annual event, and although it didn’t fill me with any overly introspective apprehensions, the thought of going was a nuisance. [...]

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The Puerto-Rican, Chinese Baby

October 13, 2011 by Paige Turner 0 Comments

Perhaps I live in a bubble, readers. The type of sanitized, hermetically sealed environment where no one bats an eye at my mixed-race family. As a matter of fact, women usually coo at my curly-haired, rosy-cheeked daughter, with her impish smile and cherubic build, still a little rounded out by baby chub. Even grown men [...]

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Our First Business Trip

October 2, 2011 by Paige Turner 0 Comments

I have always seen myself as a working mother. Always. Not once in all my childhood did I ever imagine becoming one of those women lucky enough to leave the hassles and demands of a job behind, so I could focus on the hassles and demands of raising kids and running a household. For me, [...]

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My Homemade Shea Butter Hair Cream

September 25, 2011 by Paige Turner 0 Comments

Folks, I am not a beautician or a magician. Nor do I claim any special expertise or talent in the area of styling natural hair. I am, as I pointed out in “Waste Not, Want Not!” a little careful about what hair products I buy and how much. Oh, it’s not like I’m indifferent to [...]

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The Upside of Being Different

September 24, 2011 by Paige Turner 0 Comments

I was drawing Baby’s bath one tranquil evening this past summer, watching the water pool in the tub, when I glanced at her. She was sitting on a high stool in the bathroom, swinging her chubby legs, and ad libbing the lyrics to ‘ Happy Birthday’. She paused, leaned her head back thoughtfully and said: [...]

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Must-See TV: The Good, the Bad, but Never Ugly

September 17, 2011 by Paige Turner 0 Comments

Readers will remember that I announced my intention to go natural a couple of weeks ago. I’ve worn natural hair before, after a long stint of texturizing my short hair, which followed braiding my hair, which followed a period of wearing the cutest darn permed boyish haircut you ever did see! Of all my styles, [...]

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A World Trade Center Valentine

September 11, 2011 by Paige Turner 0 Comments

More than 11 years ago, on St. Valentine’s Day, I started my commute home from my magazine job in Manhattan. I headed toward the World Trade Center, marching past the clumps of sleek and fashionably dressed people rushing to their restaurant reservations. Some were headed home to change into even more stylish ensembles for the [...]

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