by denenemillner_imysx2 | May 17, 2023 | Work
Willkommen in der Welt, ONE BLOOD! That’s “welcome to the world” in German, baby! What’s the reason for the German welcome, you ask? Well, today is the official pub day for the German edition of ONE BLOOD—the first of eight publishing dates for my new novel. That’s...
by denenemillner_imysx2 | May 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
How crazy is it that after all these years as a writer—almost thirty-seven, to be exact—here it is, a website dedicated solely to Denene Millner. Isn’t she lovely? Why am I just getting here? Well, I am an author, journalist, blogger, TV show host and podcaster who...
by denenemillner_imysx2 | May 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
(Originally published on madamenoire.com) The day a judge made my divorce final, I showed up to the courthouse in a bright yellow dress, face full of Mented cosmetics, locs freshly twisted, smelling like grapefruit Jo Malone, because this was, next to the birth of my...
by denenemillner_imysx2 | Sep 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
(Originally published on NPR.org) Beyoncé is no one’s mammy. So the record-scratching comments from Adele and Faith Hill shortly after Beyoncé’s Grammy performance came across as absolutely bizarre. In her earnest acceptance speech for her album of the...
by denenemillner_imysx2 | Aug 14, 2022 | Motivation
(Originally published on MadameNoire.com) I liked being married, and then I didn’t, and at some point, I went from actually wanting to cook and clean and handle the laundry and manage the family schedule and do all the things supposedly good wives do, to waking up...
by denenemillner_imysx2 | Jul 27, 2022 | Family
(Originally published on NewYorkTimes.com) Memories of the day I found out the boy I loved was loving on someone else are stuck on my brain like some Technicolor scab. The moment stays vivid not just because of my own misery, but because of my mother’s reaction. Upon...
by denenemillner_imysx2 | Sep 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
(Originally published on Glamour.com) I liked being married, and then I didn’t, and at some point, I went from actually wanting to cook and clean and handle the laundry and manage the family schedule and do all the things supposedly good wives do, to waking up first...
by denenemillner_imysx2 | Sep 28, 2022 | Family
(Originally published on Yahoo.com) For Mother’s Day 2018, Yahoo Lifestyle asked women to share stories about something they understood about their moms only after becoming mothers themselves. This is the third in the series; you can read the first here and the...
by denenemillner_imysx2 | Aug 17, 2022 | Work
(Originally published on NewYorkTimes.com) She was rushing past me into the bathroom, a whir of caramel skin and blue jeans and reddish-brown locs flying behind her, when I noticed the patch of uneven Afro stretching across at least a third of the back of her head....
by denenemillner_imysx2 | Aug 15, 2022 | Family
(Originally published on MadameNoire.com) My older daughter, Mari, was 10 years old when I told her what abortion is. I would have rather saved the conversation for when she was a bit older, but she’d seen the New York Times lying next to her cereal bowl and read the...
