Mimi Lenox

What could a twenty-one-year-old say to stir this writer’s soul today? Sit­ting whim­si­cally on the floor with a smarter-than-her-years-kinda-look, we find the author of a blog called the.laid.back.buddhist writ­ing of pow­er­ful emo­tions beyond her per­ceived youth­ful ele­ment. Sur­pris­ingly, she reeled me into this story with every step through the upstairs door. It was this phrase […]

Red-headed, white-skinned, ten­der, provoca­tive. All words to describe one very vocal blog­ger who chose to peel back the lay­ers of color for all to see. In her own life. On her blog. Most deci­siviely her blog. While most of her writ­ings could never be cat­e­go­rized as sub­tle and are usu­ally starkly polit­i­cal and infor­ma­tive, this […]

Who Was Your Favorite Grown-Up? is both the title of today’s Post of the Day and is an inter­est­ing ques­tion. Could you place your­self men­tally back in time and to answer this? Our author Ann Clemons does. What fol­lows is love and a heart­felt trib­ute to her grand­mother, “My favorite grown-up was my mater­nal grandmother. […]

“There will be many times today when I will be com­pletely at odds with the art of con­struct­ing sen­tences, I promise you.” But it wasn’t today. Not by a mile. It is rare we find a post so unpre­dictably riv­et­ing that we know it will win the award before the sec­ond para­graph is read. This was […]