“But not in my neighborhood” is the all too familiar phrase we hear folks utter when killings happen just around their corner. 4-year-old Salvador Esparza III was visiting Altadena from his home in Monrovia, just a short easterly drive down…
"MOMMIE, WHY ARE THEY CARRYING SIGNS?" Even when parents don’t see it as a conscious decision, we are always calling the game when it comes to creating a value system for the family. At the…
“Well!” exhaled the black lady in front of me in line at the post office.“I’m just tired of S--t”, she went on to complain.As I see life, it’s our personal responsibility to reach out to a fellow sufferer, and so…
A closely-held secret month of celebration is March which has, in some states, been declared Parenting Awareness Month.If you live in Texas, you might well be in the dark about this yearly focus, but if either Michigan or California is your…
A perfect story for this March, which has been designated “National Parenting Awareness Month," is the South Central Los Angeles mom who, with her two daughters, assaulted the younger daughter’s teacher on the campus of John Muir Middle School. Kiki…
It’s referred to as the “Empty Nest Syndrome” - the kids leave home and the parents, well, let’s get real, here, Mom doesn’t know what to do with herself.Those mothers who still have the luxury of being a stay-at-home mom…
’Twas Art Linkletter who let it be known that “kids say the darndest things.” On this Martin Luther King Jr.. holiday weekend, Linkletter's classification brings me to think about a darndest and how it evolved into an Oprah Winfrey “aha” moment. Just what…
This may well turn out to be the best story of 2013. While I bear the burden of not giving the new year a chance to unfold, the story of the year I'm going with is the family that gathered…
The young lady on the Cleveland RTA bus plain ol’ wasn’t up to obeying what the driver told her to do. When he finally decked her, yes, an upper-cut to the jaw, she was still being defiant and yelling that…