Funchilde

When you wake up at 7am and realized you’ve slept on the couch in your office and now you have to go home and shower, change clothes and get back by 9am.  No worries though, I love what I do and I’m cooking up some serious fun for the weekend.

A five hour dinner followed by a 2 hour breakfast the next day. Random You-tube clips of the Chapelle Show and a 3 way conversation on race, religion and relationships. Pinot Noir and a toast to new loves, prolific careers, “dufflebag dogs”, and how if we put all of our travels together, we would have [...]

“Surprise! We got you Ice Skates for Christmas!”

When it’s 15 degrees outside and a spontaneous Fish Fry & Mary J. Blige dance party erupts in someone’s kitchen, resulting in random Chapelle Show quotes, the dispelling of a myth that a celebrity died in the basement and someone hiding “the good tequila.”

When I was out walking the dog this morning I could actually feel my nose hairs freezing.   That is all.

                             Marian Wright Edelman One of the many benefits of working in and around institutions of higher education, is the general plethora of socio-cultural programming available at most schools. Couple that with an Ivy-League nametag and you’ve got out of this world [...]

The road is long, and the battle is not yet won, equality eludes us on many fronts. But let’s take a moment and rejoice (versus debate) the fact that in the running for President of the most powerful nation on earth, we have choices. A man of color, a woman, a devout Mormon, a former [...]

Things that Actually Came Out of People’s Mouths: The first time I went to jail… Did anyone’s underwear come off? Work is like school without the chocolate milk, the playground and the nap. School pretty much rocked. New love is like a Slimfast shake, it’s probably healthier than what you had before, but you’ll probably [...]

    [1] Thanks for all of your kind words and thoughts for my family. Everyone is hanging in there. The final “home-going” service was beautiful and it was bittersweet to spend so much time with uncles, aunts and cousins that I don’t get to see often. I don’t want to go too far down [...]

    Crying, originally uploaded by funchilde. She’s gone. Thanks for all of your prayers and kind thoughts for my Mother’s Mother. She passed yesterday as if to say that a new year held no appeal for/to her, she’d had enough, seen enough, done enough. My heart aches for my mother and her siblings. I hope 2007 treated [...]