FROGTOWN DIVA
FrogTown Diva
- Location
- Toledo, Ohio, USA
- Birthday
- September 23
- Bio
- Observations From the Swamp
Many folks think we live in the nether regions of the earth here in Toledo, Ohio. However, Toledo is the birthplace of jazz great, Art Tatum, not to mention many other distinguished and accomplished AfrAms (African-Americans) who often remain unheralded and unrecognized in their home town. This swamp is a petrie dish swarming with undiscovered talent that the world may never know because there are too many slimey creatures down here in the swamp pulling down anyone who tries to climb out and come out into the warmth of the sun. This diva climbed into the swamp with one purpose - to rid the world of slime!
MY RECENT POSTS
- There's a big difference
between a job and a calling
May 23, 2012 06:11AM - If this is "magical thinking"
the "magic" works!
May 21, 2012 08:44AM - If I get
tarred&feathered&runoutatown,
you'll know why!
May 16, 2012 08:54PM - Beating up bullies - my dirty
little secret
May 16, 2012 10:53AM - A Letter to Both of My
Mothers, One Living, One Dead
May 13, 2012 08:03AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thanks, Kathy. I'm
working on it!”
12:00AM - “Rated and posted on
Facebook!”
May 24, 2012 03:15AM - “Glad someone finally had
the cahones to speak truth to
the
progressive power
stru…”
May 24, 2012 03:12AM - “Jonathan, we share the
same good fortune. Gary, you
summed up
my entire career
as…”
May 24, 2012 03:04AM - “You nailed it,
CM!”
May 23, 2012 09:57AM
There's a big difference between a job and a calling
Had a 47-minute conversation with my supervisor last night who called after I sent her an email detailing my grievances.
As I suspected, my team/… Read full post »
If this is "magical thinking" the "magic" works!
If I get tarred&feathered&runoutatown, you'll know why!
I attended church with my mother Sunday. It was my Mother's Day present to her. I was also curious to see what her anti-gay pastor would say about President Obama's support of marriage equality. But before he spoke, during prayer ministry a female associate minister mentioned the President indi… Read full post »
Beating up bullies - my dirty little secret
Teachers' kids automatically become bully bait. And my
grandmother, Mrs. Jefferson, was the dreaded sixth grade teacher at
W. D. Spigner.
So, when we were in fifth grade I decided it was time to take care
of my main bully, Sylvia Portis, before we got to sixth
grade. One day I picked… Read full post »
A Letter to Both of My Mothers, One Living, One Dead
I was your first born, your most difficult birth with shoulders so wide, Dr. Wade, who made a house to deliver me in the house your built with his own two hands, had to use forceps to pull me out and I still have the dent/… Read full post »
Will Obama change Evangelical blacks' view of homosexuality?
President Obama's support of "marriage equality," not gay marriage, may turn the tide of opinion regarding this issue among black Evangelicals. According to an article in the Daily Beast, negative attitudes towards gays among African-Amerians went from 67% negative in 2008 to 47% negative in just fou… Read full post »
An excerpt from my play B.R.AIDS in support of gay rights
I'm 60% human, according to the constitution, but 100% whole
According to the Constitution I'm only 60% human. (That "Negroes are only 3/5 of a man" statement was never removed.)
According to some men, I'm supposed to be subservient. According to some cultural dictates, I'm not supposed to be attractive to the opposite sex.
According to… Read full post »
Senate vote against student loans nefarious act of treason
After being a public school teacher and having to fight to do what I needed to do to help children until I finally gave and recent stories about children becoming activists to get an education, two from Detroit, I'm convinced that public education's purpose is not to educate children but to… Read full post »
We're in a salad bowl, but the salad's still not tossed
How to teach a child with a developmental disability
How to teach a child with a developmental disability
Henry was excited about having spaghetti for dinner. He brought his bowl of noodles and sauce to the table just as his father removed the garlic bread from the oven and brought the pan of hot, pungent baked/… Read full post »
Accused of highjacking, one more reason to stay away
Someone named Spirit Love who joined OS for the sole purpose of
maligning my deceased brother alienated me from a place I felt safe
revealing myself and sharing my story.
So I've stayed away, sporadically coming back to post once in a
while and visit with old friends. It's good to know… Read full post »
My big Dick ride into adolescence - "Thank-you, Mr. Clark!"
"American Bandstand" was my conduit to my generation. There I learned all the '60s dances, rocked and rolled, and got soul before soul was a train. I twisted, mashed potatoes, boogalooed, and jerked in private because I wasn't allowed to dance. Not even at my school's prom. My rural community had… Read full post »
Mom was Ann Romney, Grandma was Hilary Clinton, I'm neither
My mother was a stay-at-home mom, unusual for AfrAm women. But it was the fifties and it was all the rage.
Actually, that's not why Mom was a homemaker. She was a homemaker because her goal in life was to be a wife (of a preacher) and a mother. So, at… Read full post »
Of the people, for the people, BITE the people!
Thanks, OSers, for demanding justice for Trayvon Martin
The voices of those who died on the slave ships, whose hearts were rended in two when children and loved ones were sold away, and who were lynched and mutilated that have cried out from the graves haunting my pen as it quivers in my hand are quiet for a moment… Read full post »
Why I'll be trading my hoodie for a Frederick Douglas afro
This story is almost as tragic as Trayvon Martin's murder. Only instead of murdering the child, the teachers and principal at 13-year old Jada William's school in Rochester attempted/… Read full post »
Can you script a movie from Facebook 'inbox' messages?
Geoyce Chatman
Us
Baby,
We're a force to be reckoned with. As our love and relationship grows I am more convinced God has a divine purpose for bringing us together. Whatever the reason, I'm glad we found each other./… Read full post »
Foodie Tuesday: salmon patties @ Ruby's
Delicious is not a strong enough word to describe the taste of Ruby Kitchen's Tuesday special, Salmon Patties and Rice. Scrumptuous, an epicurean delight, tastily sensuous, or even damn good don't do this dish justice.
I'm a southern belle with the delicate taste buds of someone who thinks chitlings… Read full post »
… Requiem for James&Jamie: psychology of a murder (a repost)
Life cycle of a black boy
The scared young black girl walked toward the clinic slowly, unsure of what she should do. A white woman approached her smiling.
"God wants you to know He loves you and your unborn child," the woman said.The girl fell into the arms of the kind woman weeping. They walked together away
… Read full post »
Never piss off a frog - and that means me!
Need a good laugh? I did and got one when I saw this! Watched it
six or seven times and couldn't stop laughing! Still can't!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzXM58qR1Es&feature=youtube_gdata_player Read full post »
A day late and a golden coin or two short for leprechauns...
Since the first St. Patrick's Day in Boston,
Irish people everywhere have been
celebrating the day of the saint's demise,
not the day he rid Ireland of snakes in his
blue, not/… Read full post »
I kissed a frog and didn't get a prince, but it's o.k.
O. K. I’m in love with a frog. Well, strong like. Really strong.
I always thought the fairy tale went like this: the princess kisses the frog and he turns into a prince. Well, I’ve kissed my frog several times and he’s still a frog. I don’t… Read full post »
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