Category: Lori’s Story
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Meet the New Member of the Meltingpot Family
Hello Dear Readers, Please excuse my absence this week. I didn’t mean to abandon the meltingpot, but when I woke up on Monday morning, I had no idea my life was about to change. So…what had happened was. (Warning: This is a long-ass post, so settle in and get comfortable.) MY FIRST MISTAKE My kids…
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Five Fun Facts about Ms. Meltingpot
Hello Dear Readers, Even though I’ve been blogging for more than 12 years, I haven’t used this space to share a whole lot about my personal life. Despite the fact that I wrote a memoir filled with a lot of embarrassing personal information, I still somehow feel shy here in cyberspace. But in the spirit…
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It’s My Blog-a-versary! Twelve Years of My American Meltingpot
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Tomorrow is my Blogaversary. On April 10, 2006, I wrote my very first blog post. I didn’t know exactly what I was doing, but I was happy to have an outlet for all of my thoughts and ideas that revolved around race, culture, family and Black hair. Looking back, I realize how…
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Raising Teens is Hard. Is There an App for That?
There’s nothing worse than thinking you alone are raising the spawn of Satan. When I lived in Brooklyn, New York with my two toddler boys, there was nothing I liked more than hanging out at the playground with other moms and their kids and realizing that my sons could have been a lot worse. At…
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Dreaming of a Jet Plane: Ms. Meltingpot Wants to Fly Away to one of these Five Travel Destinations
Hi Meltingpot Readers, Real talk, I’m exhausted. Like mentally and physically spent. Why? Because I just finished the manuscript for a new book. It was a book collaboration with an Olympic athlete and it was a lot of work. This was the first time I’ve ever tackled a project like that and it was exciting,…
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And Speaking of Books…Same Family, Different Colors is Almost Here!
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Remember way back in May 2014, when I announced that I’d gotten a new book deal and I would be writing a book about skin color politics in diverse communities? Well Ms. Meltingpot has been chugging along and things are moving so quickly, I can hardly believe it. The book is now…
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I Read #DiverseBooks: Ms. Meltingpot’s 2015 Year in Review of Books
Hello Meltingpot Readers, On this last day of 2015, I thought it only appropriate to reflect. Reflect that is, on what I read this past year. If you recall, one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to read more in 2015 because I’d noticed that I’d been reading for work and not for pleasure and…
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Happy Birthday, “Substitute Me!”
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth. I could give you a list of reasons why I have neglected you so, but do you really want to waste your time reading about my pitiful life? No, you want to get to the good stuff, right? So, on this day, five…
