The Minions

Caricature Winner and Other Random Announcements!

by JW Moxie on May 7, 2012 · 8 comments

Congratulations, Kristin! You’ve won a caricature drawing by Ashley! You had the magic number of 22: So, Kristin – for some reason, I have a zillion different email addresses for you. Hit me up to let me know which one I should send on to Ashley so that you guys can bump heads over what [...]

Tagged as: blogging, gangsta, Tribes

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The Burn of Parental Guilt

by JW Moxie on May 3, 2012 · 29 comments

in FAMILY, The Minions

So. Yesterday, we did” Go for What You Know” for dinner. You want cereal? Have a bowl or two. Leftovers? Nuke it to your heart’s content. A sandwich and chips? Jordan and Kaelyn usually go for PB&J, while the twins generally prefer ham and cheese. Kaelyn and Jordan to have ramen. Groovy. I put [...]

Tagged as: parenting, the Minions

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It Goes On

by JW Moxie on April 2, 2012 · 20 comments

in FAMILY, Frankly Speaking, The Minions, Worth a thousand words

There is a lot that I was going to say about our time in Louisiana to attend the funeral of Frank’s paternal grandfather, Papaw. Through the weekend, I took pictures with both my camera and my mind. I curled ribbons of words about love, loss, and life to write into a post. But I am [...]

Tagged as: family, Frank, the Minions, The Sads

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My Week, As Illustrated by Prince

by JW Moxie on March 28, 2012 · 33 comments

in FAMILY, Frankly Speaking, On Writing, Stupid Things That Have the Funny, The Minions, Worth a thousand words

I can tell from StatCounter (don’t act like you’ve never stalked your metrics) that many of you have been coming back to see if I’ve finally gotten around to posting Part III of my series on emotional/mental infertility and how it affects the Adoption, Loss, and Infertility (ALI) community (here are Part I and Part [...]

Tagged as: Frank, friends, humor, music, parenting, Prince, the Minions, The Sads, video

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What Trayvon Has Taught Me

by JW Moxie on March 24, 2012 · 50 comments

in FAMILY, The Minions, Worth a thousand words

Yesterday my son asked, “Mommy, if I wear a hoodie, does that mean I’m going to be shot, too?” My son is 8 years old. Eight. The question gave me pause because really, what could I say? Hoodies don’t cause people to be killed. But that didn’t exactly hold true for Trayvon Martin, did [...]

Tagged as: community, on being black, the Minions, Trayvon Martin

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Bullets are for Gangstas – Episode 4? 5? Something.

by JW Moxie on March 22, 2012 · 9 comments

in (Not So) Dangerous Minds, Bullets Are for Gangstas, FAMILY, Frankly Speaking, I'M JUST SAYIN', Infertility, On Writing, Outsmarting Infertility, Sort-of, The Minions

I had a helluva day at work today. It was the kind of day in which I wish that I could save some of these kids from themselves, and then I feel sad because I know that I can’t. Only they have the power to save themselves. I just hope that they realize this before [...]

Tagged as: adolescence, cancer sucks, gangsta, poop humor, teaching, the Minions, The Sads, writing

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Love: A Letter to My Daughter

by JW Moxie on March 14, 2012 · 7 comments

in Baby ART, FAMILY, Flashback, Infertility, On Writing, Outsmarting Infertility, Sort-of, The Minions, Worth a thousand words

I am working on the second of my posts about the upheaval in the Adoption, Loss, and Infertility community. In the first, I discussed emotional infertility and then posed some questions about how it may have affected the type of support you sought in the infertility community. The comments on that post are some of [...]