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The Girl is Mine

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

Who’s Your Daddy?

A few months ago, I tuned in to a new Fox reality show, “Who’s Your Daddy?” This show offered a hopeful adoptee up to $100,000 for correctly identifying her biological…

The Girl is Mine | March 2005 | By Deesha Philyaw


What She Said

I chose Sugar Daddy’s via a Google search after three polite rounds of, “It’s your neck of the woods. Where would you like to go?” “It don’t matter to me.”…

The Girl is Mine | January 2005 | By Deesha Philyaw


It’s Official

Every night, five-year-old Taylor sends up requests and thanksgiving, giving voice to her heart’s sighs and desires: “. . . And I pray that the bad guys would be gone…

The Girl is Mine | November 2004 | By Deesha Philyaw


Two’s Company

I was so close. This close to my dream of becoming a novelist, with intermittent short story and anthology publications and appearances on “Oprah.” Well, not that close, but I…

The Girl is Mine | September 2004 | By Deesha Philyaw


Say My Name

Tashonda A. In the eyes of the law, this is my daughter Peyton’s name until our adoption finalization hearing this month. I imagine Angela*, her birth mother, whispering “Tashonda” in…

The Girl is Mine | August 2004 | By Deesha Philyaw


Yes, Sweetie, Baby Sister is Black Like Us

“He’s not one of the cool boys. The brown boys are cool, but he’s not.” Then-almost-four-year-old Taylor pointed at a magazine photo of Israeli-born hip-hop music exec Lyor Cohen posing…

The Girl is Mine | June 2004 | By Deesha Philyaw


Sister Knows Best

“The baby is King of the World!” five-year-old Taylor declared within a day of us bringing her baby sister home. Too young to have seen “Titanic,” Taylor nonetheless conjured an…

The Girl is Mine | April 2004 | By Deesha Philyaw


The Girl is Mine

On a rainy pre-Christmas December day, my friend Kristan and I strolled down the book aisle of Sam’s Club, making gift selections and gifting ourselves with a few titles which…

The Girl is Mine | February 2004 | By Deesha Philyaw


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