I don't usually like to talk about my commute. It exhausts me just thinking about it and most people I know don't believe me when I tell them anyway. But I feel like sharing my family's misery so here it goes in boring detail: 5:00am - Alarm goes off in Queens (two seconds later I [...]
"Daddy, I want to smack you in the face." He wasn't smiling. "You want to what?" "Smack you in the face." Still no smile. "You do?" "Yes." "Then do it. Go ahead and try it. But I don't think you really want to smack me in the face because that's not a nice thing to [...]
I didn't have to go to work today because of the holiday, so I left the kid with his great grandmother and went to the barber shop. It was a lively day at the shop, much more so than usual. We talked about politics, the old timers talked aboout the old days, we discussed racism, sports (which [...]
Gerald Levert died today of a heart attack at his home, reportedly in his sleep. For those of you that don't know he was one of the greatest R & B stars of the last 25 years. A lengend in a business that doesn't often spawn legends. I saw him perform live a few years back and [...]
Do you wanna know how I personally know that the cold/flu season is a real phenomenon and not something made up by vaccine companies and the CDC? Well here it is: My son simultaneously coughed and sneezed into my mouth this morning as I was buckling him into his car booster seat. It tasted pretty much like my own spit and [...]