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Mom returns with renewed fire, inspired by blog readers

It’s funny. I look forward to our time together and still haven’t developed the schedule I once had. I am going to be quick today, but man, I want to tell you all that I really love and appreciate the email and the comments that you all share. I’ve been under an attack of sorts for almost a year and I gotta tell you…it hurts when you have to come back to your senses and realized that if you just focused on the mission, the vision in the beginning, nothing, NO THING can stop you. You know, I’ve had to eat my own words over the past couple of weeks. If someone came to me and said that they can’t find time to write, I would say You make time for the things that matter. OUCH! If someone came to me and said that they were feeling overwhelmed, I would say (to quote someone else…this one isn’t mine) An overwhelmed mind is an undisciplined mind! YUCK!
In short, I created this blog so that women, whether you are married/single/parent or just think you might want to be someday, whether you are staying at home/working from home/running away from home (LOL), you could find a safe, familiar, real place to just do you, kick it, be who you are. And as much as I surf and explore the world, I haven’t found a place for women like Dahgurl yet, well like where Dahgurl is going. Thanks guys for reminding me, sharing with me that what we are trying to do here is needed. On that note, let me tell you what’s coming up.
My internet radio show…coming back with fierce intensity and a new format. Looking for a couple of producers (and yes, we are paying folks…praise God). The television show…well that last one wasn’t mine, but this next one is and I’m pitching 2 other shows to some production companies this week. The goal, as you know, is Syndicate in ‘08 and that syndication will be more than radio and TV. Our team is looking to take some of my writing (I write about so much and so many topics…that’s what put the book on hold, but we are going back to the table with that one too) and get larger markets for them.
Alright, I’m a little fired up and thanks for reading this far. Of course, I owe you all a life update as mom. Imani will be 13 on November 14 and we are planning an off the hook Rites of Passage celebration. I shared with you how we have been preparing her for over a year to “transition” into womanhood. Our family thought that 13 was too early and that maybe I was biting off of someone else’s culture…ok, the Jews, I said it. But as much as I admire certain aspects about many cultures (and I did read a few books about bat mitvahs), I’ve been sorta moved to make this a tradition for my family and those around me because of the research I did for a workshop in March on Teen Depression. I spoke at this conference and I was torn apart by the information on teen pregnancy, AIDS, violence among teen women. I don’t think I could have imagined-girl gangs! What? I mean girls are now the worse bullies and…well yoou get the picture. So I want to best prepare my children and the only way I know to fight a battle and win is to know who you are and whose you are. Oh, I will save the sermon for another day. I love my daughter as she is, but I know that as a parent, my parenting style has to be different than that of my parents. I am praying, fasting, crying out to the Lord for my children more than ever and I talk more about sex, rape, abortion, homosexuality than my parents have ever talked to me. I will be publishing all of the details about the program in the next few weeks, but just know that mothering/parenting is an important, on-purpose gig that is not for the weak at heart! And I was a fool to think that some how I was going to do everything I wanted and my children were somehow going to “get it on their own.”
Gotta go. Thanks again fam (yall family now).

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