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Posted by Mocha Momma 2 weeks 8 hours ago.
Gratitude has to be, however honorable, one of the greatest elusive qualities of mankind. Unless practiced, it becomes the weakened muscle that atrophies until nothing but but a limp life is left in its wake. The very act of graciousness implies that a pe...
Posted by Mocha Momma 2 weeks 5 days ago.
I’ve read enough articles this morning detailing important speeches and quotes and the like for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and I’m pleased to see so many media outlets giving him the credit he deserves and deserved for a long time. However, ...
Posted by Mocha Momma 2 weeks 6 days ago.
When Mason walks into the room and says, “Hey, mom. Wanna hear something I think you’ll like this song.” you just do it. When he pushes play on his iPod and starts Gotye’s song “Heart’s A Mess” and smiles at you...
Posted by Mocha Momma 3 weeks 1 day ago.
Not long ago I found a shop on Etsy that sells custom prints that you can hang in your house that gives a sneak peek of when you and your partner first met. That got me to thinking about what I would put on one if ever I ordered it and it got me thinking ...
Posted by Mocha Momma 4 weeks 16 hours ago.
My friend Trish handed this book to me this week and insisted, in her own sweet way, that I read it right away. She is, like me, a lover of young adult fiction. A Monster Calls is actually a young adult graphic novel written by Patrick Ness from an idea t...
Posted by Mocha Momma 4 weeks 17 hours ago.
It’s a wonderful thing to find new music and with the comments on my last music post I found that the more I search the more people share (and thank you! keep sharing!) what they’re listening to or what they think I might like. The easiest des...
Posted by Mocha Momma 1 month ago.
Call me a fan of music. In fact, I insist. But don’t call me a fan of what most people consider pop music. If it’s all over the television and “celebrities” are overexposed then chances are I don’t have an interest. After wat...
Posted by Mocha Momma 1 month ago.
It surprised me how many of my friends (and you lurkers) enjoyed Volume I of my 2011 post in pictures. The thing that made me consider summarizing the year was when a friend asked me, “Did you have a good year” What, exactly, makes a year goo...
Posted by Mocha Momma 1 month ago.
When I considered collecting my favorite pictures from this year I went through them and gathered all the photos that meant something special to me. What I noticed is that I take a lot of photos of flowers and food and, of course, people I love. To pay ho...
Posted by Mocha Momma 1 month ago.
I only listed that as the title because of the song. But if you really want to tell me, please do. I can live vicariously through you which totally means NOT AT ALL but I will still have something to look forward to someday. I’ll be at home with my ...
Posted by Mocha Momma 1 month ago.
Welcome to the pretend holiday edition of Mocha Momma. I don’t do holiday editions. But if I did, it would look a lot like a list: 1. I got a Christmas card from the Obamas. I also got one from Jennifer Hudson and Weight Watchers. JenHu and WW can j...
Posted by Mocha Momma 1 month ago.
Sometime last year after I started working at a middle school The Cuban asked me about the different programs we have in place. He’s very civic minded, that one, and he was really asking about how he can get involved. As a public school servant that...
Posted by Mocha Momma 1 month ago.
I don’t always consider myself a liberal advocate or a tree-hugger or a nature-lover. Some things are more important to me than others and I recycle at home and take compost things in at work (where we do have a resident tree-hugger who does her level b...
Posted by Mocha Momma 2 months ago.
I gave birth to four children by the time I was 23. That just seems absurd when I say it aloud (or type it aloud) (which I just did) because the 23 year olds I know today seem like babies. Mason, technically baby number 3, came along when I was 20. How pa...
Posted by Mocha Momma 2 months ago.
You know a song is infecting your brain when you wake up singing it every day for a week. It doesn’t take much for Common to infect me because I crush HARD on this man. He still doesn’t know he’s my boyfriend. By the way, are you watchin...
Posted by Mocha Momma 2 months ago.
I have a thing for East Coast hip hop. I won’t even lie about that. “Above the Clouds” was playing earlier this week and it surprised me how much I missed this song. Guru, one of the founding members, died far too soon from a heart attac...
Posted by Mocha Momma 2 months ago.
Dangit, if Elle Varner isn’t ADORABLE. It’s not just the hair, either, but MY GOD SHE HAS INCREDIBLE HAIR. Also, this video is a throwback to a time that mirrors my high school years (minus the incredible hair, I was still trying to make it fe...
Posted by Mocha Momma 2 months ago.
This song got me through some rough months. Lots of change was happening in my life and this song seemed to keep coming up on my playlist and instead of fighting it or trying to figure out what the lyrics meant or how this was affecting my life I just wen...
Posted by Mocha Momma 2 months ago.
1. Everyone has been incredibly kind during my banking fiasco especially friends who send money to my PayPal without even asking or saying they were going to do so. That was a nice surprise because I’m not the kind of person who knows how to ask for...
Posted by Mocha Momma 2 months ago.
Is it me, or does this song sound eerily reminiscent of Prince back in the day (It’s not just the Atari system shot in the video either.) (Okay, maybe it reminds me of Prince from the 80s and that’s where that comes from.) Everything she sing...
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