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Dear Mom-in-Chief: A Letter from my Daughter | Moms Miami //MomsMiami.com Member: adeyela Dear Mom-in-Chief: A Letter from my Daughter
Dear Mom-in-Chief, Like our new president, I am an African living in America. Actually, I was born in Miami, but my father is a traditional prince from the ancient Yoruba Empire of Nigeria, West Africa. I usually state this fact quite proudly. Today, however, I am appalled by an African tradition that is still practiced today in some countries: parents giving daughters away in marriage at the tender age of 10 to 15, in...read more...On my mother's death and eternal life | Moms Miami //MomsMiami.com Member: adeyela On my mother's death and eternal life
Queen Esther Ward Barnett, my precious Mother of Prayer, traveled peacefully to heaven last night, September 3, 2008. She suffered a devastating cranial aneurysm last Friday that put her in a coma. This was Mammy’s second cranial aneurysm in ten years, and the medical professionals said there was no hope of her ever living a normal life again. My stepfather appointed me to replace him as the medical proxy,...read more...Black in America: It's About Family | Moms Miami //MomsMiami.com Member: adeyela Black in America: It's About Family
CNN recently aired a series about black life in America. I offer an inside look into an intact family who values education and community because we create our reality with our thoughts, words and images. When we start consistently seeing positive images of black life in our mind's eye, we will once again experience peace, love, good health and prosperity. Read on: Abena-Brooksie gently tapped her great...read more...Sssh, don't tell anyone! My father was a polygamist! | Moms Miami //MomsMiami.com Member: adeyela Sssh, don't tell anyone! My father was a polygamist!
My family members criticize me for being so "American" and putting all the family's dirty laundry in the streets. Actually, it takes a great deal of courage for me to finally acknowledge that my father was a polygamist. Since my father died in the Bahamas in 1980, it was easy for me to pretend, when I moved to Miami, that I grew up in a nuclear family. Preston Hilton Albury loved many brown-skinned...read more...Moms are supposed to embarrass their teens ... right? | Moms Miami //MomsMiami.com Member: adeyela Moms are supposed to embarrass their teens ... right?
Check out this MTV video to see what my 15-year-old daughter, Moremi Akinde, is doing this summer at the University of Miami. She is one of 20 participants in the Peace Sullivin/James Ansin High School Workshop in Journalism and New Media, sponsored by the Dow-Jones Fund. Moremi will be embarrassed, but you know how proud I am!!! Click "The Next Street Team," then click on Moremi's hands to see the video...read more...New Fla law allows twins in same classroom | Moms Miami //MomsMiami.com Member: adeyela New Fla law allows twins in same classroom
Abena-Bree Bree and Abena-Brooksie will be in kindergarten in three years. For now, Brad and I think we would like for them to be in the same classroom. Now, that option actually exists. Gov. Charlie Crist signed SB642 to become law this month, giving parents of twins and other multiples the right to a recommend classroom placement of their children. Parents are allowed to choose whether their twins, triplets or more...read more...African birth-day names | Moms Miami //MomsMiami.com Member: adeyela African birth-day names
During a recent hospitalization, I silently called out to God for mercy. Within seconds, a cheerful nurse entered the room.“Hi, I’m Mercy! How can I help you feel better?” With a name like Mercy, this soul surely brings comfort to many ailing patients. My mother named me Sharon, while my older sisters had exotic names like Odette, Minerva and Ommath. I envisioned their namesakes as...read more...Summer with grandma & grandpa! | Moms Miami //MomsMiami.com Member: adeyela Summer with grandma & grandpa!
I am learning a lesson in non-attachment. I was quite excited when my husband's parents offered to keep our 11-month-old twin girls in Maryland for a few weeks during the summer. When the moment of truth came, however, I wanted to turn around and bring them back to Florida! The babies are God's childen, so I have to generously share my gifts with their loving grandparents. Abuela has been super about sending...read more...On the murder of my friends' son | Moms Miami //MomsMiami.com Member: adeyela On the murder of my friends' son
What words are sufficient to express the loss of a close friend’s child? I’ve stared at this blank computer screen all day, trying hard to fight back the tears and select the appropriate words to share our family and community’s immense loss at the senseless and untimely murder of Michael McQueen. The world will never again enjoy the robust laughter of Glenda and Mike’s first-born child....read more...My Teenage Daughters: Divine Forces of Nature | Moms Miami //MomsMiami.com Member: adeyela My Teenage Daughters: Divine Forces of Nature
Sweet Honey In The Rock, a Grammy Award-winning African American female acapella ensemble, sings a moving spiritual adapted from a poem written by the 19 th century Lebanese writer, Khalil Gibran. Along with sacred scriptures, I have used Sweet Honey’s song to help guide me in raising my two beautiful teenage daughters, Nuola and Moremi Akinde. The poem-song says, in part: Your children are not your...read more...
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