This is my tenth Father's Day. When my first one came around my son was about 6 weeks old. By then I was officially among the ranks of the sleep deprived and utterly confused. Since those days there has been a lot of living going on. Growing too (especially Dev who is now 9 feet [...]
Every year around this time I say something about my personal hero, Rev. Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. This year is no exception. Of all the people I admire and respect in this world he is the one who has stayed consistent. Of course part of the reason for this is that his greatness has remained [...]
That most people want to be happy but just don't know how. In many ways it's a life-long journey. But you have to want to take the journey and know what it looks like when you arrive at certain milestones along the way. That's the hard part. Being a jerk is beyond easy. Sure it [...]
I was re-reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and I had to pause to take a deep breath a time or two. Not because his letter was a tear jerker - it's not. It's truth spoken to power and is not at all sentimental. The ideas from his letter that [...]
Change is good, so they say. "Things done changed," as Biggie once stated. Yet the most accurate quote about change I can think of is probably the now cliche statement "a baby changes everything." No, the wife is not preggers again (not that there would be anything wrong with that). I've just been thinking about [...]
This year for Christmas Dev got his first "real" bike. Living in New York has made me less than interested in him owning bike but the missus and I buckled down and got one anyway. It was a somewhat testosterone driven decision because I know somewhere in my man-brain that a kid should have a [...]
"That's a great idea!" Those are the words that spilled from my?loving son's mouth when I?said?"no more kisses for you" as?I was leaving the house this?morning.?The only reason I even said that to him is because for the last several weeks he's been running from me when I try to give him a kiss good-bye [...]
In honor of the Dev and I being in Time magazine last year my wife?purchased a subscription for me as a gift. Now I spend a couple off days a week reading the articles on the subway as I commute. I read from cover to cover and I am consistently entertained and informed. Every so [...]
A few days ago one of my regular readers, Gyamfua (what's up girl?!) emailed me and asked my opinion on the "no snitching" phenomenon in the black community. After thinking about it for a while, and watching the video link* she sent me, I realized that haven't thought much about one of the most notorious [...]
This weekend we had a ton of fun in honor of my boy's fourth birthday, which is today by the way. We went to Lancaster, PA in search of a real live steam engine and boy did we find it! I felt like a little kid again when the the big black iron train came [...]
