Yes, my boy strikes again. I wrote a post a month or so ago where I told the story of how my budding fiction writer likes to, well, tell stories. He's at it again. A few days ago I found out that my son has started another rumor about me. This time, after telling all his teachers, [...]
Today we finished off the summer field-trip trifecta with a trip to the New York Aquarium. Knowing that my son looses his freaking mind late in the afternoon, we rushed out of the house at about 10:30am to get an early start. We arrived at the aquarium just in time to see the sea lion [...]
Ok, Elmo is actually red. And he has been around for about 20 years. However, I just found out yesterday from a Newsweek article on MSNBC.com, that the person that gives life to Elmo is a 45 year old black man. I always knew that he was a man because when the credits run at [...]
I've been thinking about this all week. A young man that I went to junior high school with was arrested on gun possession charges linked to the murder of a popular NYC sanitation worker. The school that we went to was for so-called "gifted and talented" students. It was small, about eight classes all together, [...]
Have you noticed that black actors often get the roles of the most powerful characters (the person in charge) on many television shows, but the roles are typically "supporting" and not "starring?" Fox Broadcasting Co. is good for this. The "Supervisory Special Agent in Charge" on the new show Standoff is a black woman, yet when the show is airing it's [...]