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		<title>Post-Racial Myth</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3655</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Honeysmoke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Danzy Senna asked a Northwestern University audience to stand if a series of questions applied to them.
Are you multiracial? Are your parents of two ethnicities? Two religions? Are any family members a different race from you? Are your children a different race? Have you ever passed as something, intentionally or otherwise, that you are not? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darcy&#8217;s Giveaway</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3650</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Percola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t get enough of natural hair potions and lotions. If you&#8217;re like me, head over to Happy Girl Hair for a chance to win free Darcy&#8217;s Botanicals products.
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		<title>The Last Lecture</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3631</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Honeysmoke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biracial]]></category>
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I&#8217;ve been listening to The Last Lecture. I expected words of wisdom. I didn&#8217;t expect words of wisdom about parenting. Author Randy Pausch, the father of three young children, gave the lecture after he was diagnosed with cancer. The lessons found throughout the book focus on what it means to fulfill childhood dreams and how he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunch Mix-Up</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3622</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Honeysmoke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biracial]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my haste to get out of the door and do as many things for the girls, I mixed up the lunches. Again. This lead to confusion at preschool. Teachers switched the lunches, but this happened after Nadia had seen her lunch. So, there were two unhappy children. As a result, a note was sent home. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote, Unquote</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3612</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Percola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are you going this way?
Nadia, our resident backseat driver.
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		<title>Offended by Biracial?</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3600</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Percola</dc:creator>
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Precious star Paula Patton, who has a black parent and a white parent, told Women&#8217;s Health she is offended by the term biracial. I am stunned by her comment. I understand she was raised at a different time, but I don&#8217;t think there is anything offensive about the term. In my mind, it is a more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Read</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3596</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Percola</dc:creator>
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The upcoming U.S. Census is generating a lot of buzz about race. USA Today shows why it is important for some to check more than one box. Check it out.
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		<title>Duck, Duck, Goose</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3586</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Honeysmoke</dc:creator>
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I hope Simone and Nadia don&#8217;t mind me sharing my love with other children. I had the pleasure recently of playing house, flipping coins and playing Duck, Duck, Goose with a delightful 3-year-old. I should say that Duck, Duck, Goose is a lot tougher to play these days. Big kids like me can get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving Simone &amp; Nadia</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3569</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Honeysmoke</dc:creator>
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I am traveling again. Just before I boarded the plane, a woman behind me asked another woman if she were leaving her baby for the first time. Yes, she said.
I’ve been there, I thought to myself. When Nadia was just seven weeks old, I hopped on a plane for a week-long journalism fellowship. I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preferences</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3564</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Honeysmoke</dc:creator>
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I had no idea that suggesting black women date outside of their race would, well, cause such outrage. Sure, I knew some people wouldn&#8217;t take the message well. I just didn&#8217;t think there would be hostile postings across the Internet about it. A front page Washington Post article really irritated some folks. Some call it propaganda; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Talk</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3552</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Honeysmoke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We sure are talking more about race these days, and in some places I wouldn&#8217;t have imagined just a few years ago. I found smileyousee&#8217;s You Tube channel and two of the videos there caught my interest. The first one lets me know I&#8217;m not the only one having conversations with children about race. The second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Was Just &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3536</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Honeysmoke</dc:creator>
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I thought I&#8217;d share a common phrase in our house these days. When the girls ask me how I could share these with strangers, I will tell them I was just trying to blog.
1. I was just trying to wash my hands (while slathering soap on both elbows)
2. I was just trying to do my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote, Unquote</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3526</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Honeysmoke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s all right, Daddy. You tried.
Simone consoling her father, after he said he did not hear her latest demand. 
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		<title>Leapster</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3515</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Honeysmoke</dc:creator>
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What you do for one, you must do for the other.
Ken and I have heard this mantra constantly. Most of the time it comes from someone who does not have children. I like to think that those of us who have children learned this lesson the hard way. We buy two of almost everything, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Am Reading</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3508</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Honeysmoke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky
By Heidi W. Durrow
I &#8220;met&#8221; Durrow last week on the Mixed Chicks, but that&#8217;s not the reason I went out and bought her book. A writer friend of mine reviewed the work for a national magazine and told me she read the book quickly and that it tells an extraordinary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race and Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3499</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Percola</dc:creator>
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I read this article about interracial marriages, and I saw a piece of information I typically see in stories about interracial relationships.
The divorce rate is higher in an interracial marriage than in those composed of two people of the same race. My immediate question: According to whom?
Every time I see this assertion, it is not followed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindergarten</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3480</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Honeysmoke</dc:creator>
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I gathered all the records I needed to prove Simone is a real person: a birth certificate, Social Security card and immunization records. Then I gathered everything I needed to prove we live in the school district: gas bill, water bill and a mortgage payment stub. I am not keen on providing the payment stub, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Color Am I?</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3462</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Percola</dc:creator>
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As soon as the words tumbled from my mouth, I knew I was in trouble.
We haven&#8217;t dealt with race in a while, I told the Mixed Chicks. That night, Simone and Nadia chose the books they wanted me to read to them. They each chose three, and Nadia picked Martin&#8217;s Big Words.
&#8220;I have a dream that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote, Unquote</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3453</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Percola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with no sticky.
Nadia letting us know she would like to have a peanut butter sandwich.
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		<title>Race on Broadway</title>
		<link>http://www.honeysmoke.com/archives/3441</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Percola</dc:creator>
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Next time I am in New York &#8212; and I don&#8217;t know when that will be &#8212; I will make time to see this. David Mamet wrote Race and directs it. The production, which opened Dec. 6  at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, stars James Spader, David Alan Grier, Kerry Washington and Richard Thomas.
It is a play [...]]]></description>
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