Do you remember at what point you stopped calling your father "daddy"? I don't recall the age when?I switched to "dad", but I'm almost 100% certain I wasn't five. Recently my boy decided to try on "dad" to see how it fit, and he appears to like it. I, on the other hand, am feeling [...]
We're back from Disney, the new job starts tomorrow, and yesterday I got a chance to see the documentary that I'm appearing in this Fall. What's more, my first non-fiction fatherhood story will be published?soon as part of a collection in an upcoming book (I got the check for the article a few weeks ago [...]
"Come in the name of love." When I first heard those U2 lyrics I was very young. I knew the song was catchy, but that was about it. It would be years later that I would discover what?the song?was about, or more accurately who the song was about. It's no secret that Dr. King is [...]
Forty years ago today the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Junior was murdered. At varying points throughout my life I have asked older people about that fateful day. All of the responses have been similar and consistent. They have told me of an overwhelming feeling of grief, and a sense of feeling lost and abandoned. [...]
This Black History Month I had planned to write a post about the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. He is inspiring a country to forgo the status quo, look past race, and consider the best person possible to run this country. Obama has supporters from around the world who are hoping for a major shift [...]