http://www.tamarawarren.com/blog All Tamara All The Time Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:59:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I said I would never put my baby's picture on the Internet. Three months later poor little guy is a Facebook model. What went wrong? Why would I expose my child to the voyeuristic world only for random associates to peruse at leisure and offer pithy comments on at their ... http://www.tamarawarren.com/blog/?p=502 We don't speak the same language, but we understand each other. Baby boy has a formidable handle on gurgles and oohs and ahhs that leave us with the acute impression that he know exactly what he means - a man of obtuse words. He is quite articulate and prolific in ... http://www.tamarawarren.com/blog/?p=500 I found out that I was pregnant in a hotel room in my hometown, on assignment, waiting for my love to join me the next day. The timing was too perfect -- home in Michigan -- for me to miss the opportunity to share the news with my parents ... http://www.tamarawarren.com/blog/?p=494 What's the hardest part of having a baby? Sure labor is rough, but it doesn't last forever. (Okay, so maybe I shouldn't talk since I had a relatively easy, short one. The baby was born in a flurry, 45 minutes after I arrived at the hospital... but that's another ... http://www.tamarawarren.com/blog/?p=495 My baby was born in the year of Obama. In January, when Barack Obama began to take over in the primaries, my baby was forming his most important vital organs in my womb. As my baby gained the ability to hear, he was subject to passionate political discussions and the ... http://www.tamarawarren.com/blog/?p=492 “That’s the true genius of America. That America can change. Yes We Can.” ---Barack Obama, Nov. 4, 2008. http://www.tamarawarren.com/blog/?p=487 I've never been one who is so good with time. Ask anyone who knows me, and they'll tell you how I'm one of those 15-minute late ladies. I know, I know, it's rude, presumptuous and irresponsible. I've tried to fix it, but there always seems to be ... http://www.tamarawarren.com/blog/?p=485 In case you haven't heard, the new online magazine GoTryke.com is up and running!  GoTryke.com is the brainchild created by fellow native Detroiter Chuck Gibson and me. We bring it to you live from our Brooklyn base. At GoTryke.com you'll find everything transportation oriented, and all the cool culture you ... http://www.tamarawarren.com/blog/?p=484 The wind blows in gusty insistence, churning and gurgling, as tree branches moan and twist outside my window. It's a quiet afternoon, interrupted by the weather's swoon. If I close my eyes it seems that I am away at sea. But I am here in the quiet of my living ... http://www.tamarawarren.com/blog/?p=482 What do you know about the Obama Hustle? They're doing it Detroit -- a flurry of smooth sways, bops and carefully timed turns. Choreographer Crystal Smith has put together what could be the election's signature dance set to Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered." That's Detroit doing Obama proud. While '92 ... http://www.tamarawarren.com/blog/?p=479