Isn't it time for Oprah to fold her tent and just disappear? Why would any thinking audience want to replace her? Never mind - there's just not that much thinking going on in TV land!

I'm old. My kids are grown. I worked full-time, raised kids, attended soccer games, swim meets and shuttled kids to violin and piano practice. My kids, now grown,on occasion have said "Thanks, mom!" But there is this new breed of mom out there that repels and invites the kinds of things said about moms I read in this article.

I can't say it any other way - there is a disconnect in society. That sense of entitlement of some women and their children extends beyond real high-end strollers. When "experts" tell young mothers or even those in their thirties not to listen to their mothers and their grandmothers about child rearing - well, there is truly something amiss and all the blogs in the world can't rescue the very fundamental wrong that's occurring on that level!

You lost me when you stated you didn't feel sorry for the people who lost their homes, just for the kids. When loife is hard for parents...trust me, it's always harder on the kids. Certain people can do certain jobs and you've found one that works for you. I have never wanted to be exposed to great loss, even though I have experienced it. I have never wantedf to wander around in other people's pain, but you have chosen to do to just that. There are no easy answers as to how or why people's lives fall apart and there are people like you and your boyfriend who go out, probably hire illegal aliens who don't speak English and pay them far less for their time than you would an American, and you still find a way to sleep at night! Too bad you and your boyfriend can't find a more human way to relate to one another.

Unfortunately, the last few lines of your piece are the basis of the brouhaha about Serena Williams. Very little of the stated complaints have anything to do with the game of tennis or anything of great import that Serena might have committed....it's a modern day lynch mob disguised as well-meaning, outraged white folks! Too bad the game has become so transparent.

If tyhe call by the linesperson is in question, why isn't someone investigating the call rather than castigating Serena?

I am extremely surprised that the authors stopped at "frank discussions with their children about race differences." It has been known for quite sometime that children learn attitudinal perspective from their immediate surroundings, meaning what they see their parents doing and being comfortable doing. If a "white" home has never had a miority person in that home as a welcome and respected visitor, then those children taised in that home would have natural reasons for not being comfortable around minorities.

Our youngest daughter, a product of bi-racial parents, assumed that all white people turned black as they got older because my parents were black and old. She also assumed that I was old and that her dad was still young because he was white and that he would one day turn black when he got old. She of course was pink in her own eyes.

Exposure to people, exposure in the home, that is, in a relaxed environment where people eat, drink and/or play games is how children learn to not notice the obvious difference of color. This is not rocket science, that is, unless someone tries to make the understanding of race and racism rocket science.

If you think understanding racism is tough, think about the dynamic that happens between family members - strained holiday celebrations and hurt feelings that span back decades. People and their feelings can be complicated simply because we refuse to deal truthfully with ourselves and our attitudes.

I must have missed a vital part of my education many years ago. Exactly how can someone as dumb as a rock make it as far as he has in life? Michael Steele has no emotional intelligence, that is clear, but is the man so caught up in admiring his reflection in the mirror that he has lost all sense of propriety? His appearance at Howard University and his inability to perceive just how offensive his behavior was is without precedent.

I haven't been able to figure out why grown women accept the fact that there are mean girls in middle and high school but completeky ignore the fact that many of these mean girls grow-up to be mean women? Mean women are like giant, peanut eating elephants in the room that a whole bunch of women simply ignore despite the fact that mean women weild tremendous emotional power. Being a realist I would have assumed that the anonymous blog writer was in fact another woman. Alas, sadly, I am in the minority.

Obama's dye has been cast...he won't be able to extract himself from his overwhelming need to compromise. Politics as usual also means that Obama has political transit that he owes to those people that invested in his campaign and ultimately, his election. Like several other issues that have come before this new administration, issues that would have retored the Rule of Law in this country, issues that would have began to rein in the financial institutions, issues that addressed fairness to homosexuals who server our country just like their heterosexual counterparts, all have been spectacularly abandoned by this president and his cadre of advisors. The health care issue is already a fate accompli - a watered down bill that favors the powerful over the needy.