FROGTOWN DIVA
FrogTown Diva
- Location
- Toledo, Ohio, USA
- Birthday
- September 23
- Bio
- Observations From the Swamp
Many folks think we live in the nether regions of the earth here in Toledo, Ohio. However, Toledo is the birthplace of jazz great, Art Tatum, not to mention many other distinguished and accomplished AfrAms (African-Americans) who often remain unheralded and unrecognized in their home town. This swamp is a petrie dish swarming with undiscovered talent that the world may never know because there are too many slimey creatures down here in the swamp pulling down anyone who tries to climb out and come out into the warmth of the sun. This diva climbed into the swamp with one purpose - to rid the world of slime!
MY RECENT POSTS
- Looking back & moving forward
January 06, 2013 05:17PM - Looking back & moving forward
January 06, 2013 05:16PM - Looking back & moving forward
January 06, 2013 05:13PM - First monkey brains, now
penguins?
June 16, 2012 01:02AM - doggone - love and loss, from
sadness to gladness
June 15, 2012 07:05AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Check out my Frog
Lovers' page on
Facebook!”
August 13, 2012 08:58AM - “I retroactively was NOT
a cougar when I was 41! He
looked
like 37, not 27!
Never…”
July 15, 2012 08:39PM - “Sorry, Kennyaj couldn't
resist it!”
July 06, 2012 03:03AM - “Right, Myriad. Don't
feel bad, Poppi. We all
transgress.
Besides, bet
they're tas…”
June 28, 2012 04:38PM - “The play was not
accepted in the festival three
years ago and
was turned down
for…”
June 23, 2012 12:30PM
FrogTown Diva's Links
Looking back & moving forward
2012 was a busy year for me. Started back to school with high hopes that were quickly dashed when I was the only graduate assistant accepted to present research at a national conference in Burmingham, Alabama last November. I've been accepted to present my small research project locating community-ba… Read full post »
Looking back & moving forward
2012 was a busy year for me. Started back to school with high hopes that were quickly dashed when I was the only graduate assistant accepted to present research at a national conference in Burmingham, Alabama last November. I've been accepted to present my small research project locating community-ba… Read full post »
Looking back & moving forward
2012 was a busy year for me. Started back to school with high hopes that were quickly dashed when I was the only graduate assistant accepted to present research at a national conference in Burmingham, Alabama last November. I've been accepted to present my small research project locating community-ba… Read full post »
First monkey brains, now penguins?
SOMEONE CALL PETA!
This is just wrong!
Despite the obvious political message, I loved "Happy Feet." Cute little penguins singing and dancing. What's not to love? And those mischevious little rascals in "Madagascar" that ended up with their own cartoon feature kept me in stitches.… Read full post »
doggone - love and loss, from sadness to gladness
I lost my beloved grandfather and first dog, a German Shepherd puppy named Tiger about the same time. Two years earlier I'd lost my baby sister to SIDS. Two more deaths were all I could handle. I'd already become withdrawn after being treated like I was invisible in the all-white… Read full post »
doGGod, mirror images
The long-awaited...FrogTown Diva's Photo Album
For those who've waited breathlessly (both of you) to actually see a complete photo of me, here they are!
But first...
Food photos! From our meet-up at my favorite Toledo restaurant, Ruby's Kitchen and from my mama's kitchen where I cooked a gourmet meal for my current beau. Enjoy s… Read full post »
I started a cult once. All my students joined but one.
My super-hero next door will always be seven years old
But that lack of development is his defense against developing his nearly seventeen year-old older brother's resentment towar/… Read full post »
Perfect punchline @ black men having - well, you know
My brother, James, now deceased, tried his hand at a number of things before using his natural oratorical skills honed in high school debate club until he was number two in the nation in Forensic Speech. Same thing in college. But James, who didn't finish college due to a much more… Read full post »
My lesbian best friend was seduced by Bill Clinton!
Not only was my now deceased best friend, Karen, a lesbian - she and her mate, Pat, had their holy union in the house Karen and I shared for seventeen years and I still have her copy of their wedding album - she was also a licensed and ordained pentecostal minister… Read full post »
Real etymology of "picnic," often associated with lynchings
The Bloodiest Race Riot in America's History Erupted
There's a big difference between a job and a calling
Had a 47-minute conversation with my supervisor last night who called after I sent her an email detailing my grievances.
As I suspected, my team/… Read full post »
If this is "magical thinking" the "magic" works!
If I get tarred&feathered&runoutatown, you'll know why!
I attended church with my mother Sunday. It was my Mother's Day present to her. I was also curious to see what her anti-gay pastor would say about President Obama's support of marriage equality. But before he spoke, during prayer ministry a female associate minister mentioned the President indi… Read full post »
Beating up bullies - my dirty little secret
Teachers' kids automatically become bully bait. And my
grandmother, Mrs. Jefferson, was the dreaded sixth grade teacher at
W. D. Spigner.
So, when we were in fifth grade I decided it was time to take care
of my main bully, Sylvia Portis, before we got to sixth
grade. One day I picked… Read full post »
A Letter to Both of My Mothers, One Living, One Dead
I was your first born, your most difficult birth with shoulders so wide, Dr. Wade, who made a house to deliver me in the house your built with his own two hands, had to use forceps to pull me out and I still have the dent/… Read full post »
Will Obama change Evangelical blacks' view of homosexuality?
President Obama's support of "marriage equality," not gay marriage, may turn the tide of opinion regarding this issue among black Evangelicals. According to an article in the Daily Beast, negative attitudes towards gays among African-Amerians went from 67% negative in 2008 to 47% negative in just fou… Read full post »
An excerpt from my play B.R.AIDS in support of gay rights
I'm 60% human, according to the constitution, but 100% whole
According to the Constitution I'm only 60% human. (That "Negroes are only 3/5 of a man" statement was never removed.)
According to some men, I'm supposed to be subservient. According to some cultural dictates, I'm not supposed to be attractive to the opposite sex.
According to… Read full post »
Senate vote against student loans nefarious act of treason
After being a public school teacher and having to fight to do what I needed to do to help children until I finally gave and recent stories about children becoming activists to get an education, two from Detroit, I'm convinced that public education's purpose is not to educate children but to… Read full post »
We're in a salad bowl, but the salad's still not tossed
How to teach a child with a developmental disability
How to teach a child with a developmental disability
Henry was excited about having spaghetti for dinner. He brought his bowl of noodles and sauce to the table just as his father removed the garlic bread from the oven and brought the pan of hot, pungent baked/… Read full post »
Accused of highjacking, one more reason to stay away
Someone named Spirit Love who joined OS for the sole purpose of
maligning my deceased brother alienated me from a place I felt safe
revealing myself and sharing my story.
So I've stayed away, sporadically coming back to post once in a
while and visit with old friends. It's good to know… Read full post »
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