I've never posted a conversation with my mother on this blog. Good thing she doesn't own a computer... My mother and I were talking on the phone the other day and as usual she tried to run a guilt trip on me. She said "oh my boys don't call me enough." And "I guess one [...]
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 [...]
It's a new year and a new me! Um, not quite. I'm the same old me (and getting older apparently). I'm ok with that, since I made it to another year intact. I've been busy working on great projects behind the scenes and planning for 2010. Throughout the year I'm hoping to roll out [...]
The world moves too fast for my liking sometimes. Not that I can't keep up, I can thank you very much, but more that I like having a second or two for analysis. At the office you have to be able to do both and in general I can do that too (though I prefer [...]
Since the beginning of October I have been listening to Christmas music. All kinds too - from Country and Metal to Soul and Hip-Hop and everything in between. It's really absurd and now that I see the words in black and white, it's also embarrassing. I need an ugly sweater and some felt reindeer antlers [...]
I never went to summer camp. Not an away camp, church camp, YMCA, neighborhood camp... nothing. When I was my son's age I lived in Key West, had two older brothers, and my mother was a full-time mom. Summers were the stuff of classic movies - carefree and exciting. We had crushes on the girl [...]
I've been a Bob Marley fan since the weekend in my teens when I visited my brother at the University of Pennsylvania and discovered that he had the Reggae master's full library on CD. I was mesmerized - it was some of the best music I'd ever heard. So when I found out that there [...]
Back in the day I had a tee ball set-up that was awesome. It was red and white and it had one of those balls with the elastic cord attached so you could practice on your own. I would play with that thing for hours and so would my brothers. I got really, really good [...]
I remember when I was approximately Dev's age and computers were huge, often not in color and required floppy disks that were actually floppy. I can see clearly in my mind the old-school CRT monitors and the lousy pixilation with the constantly blinking DOS cursor. Clunky keyboards were common and I'm pretty sure there was [...]
...At least not for kids. Sure this post is a little late in the sense that the film "Notorious" came out over a month ago, but the theme for the post is timely: children attending rated R movies. I lived in Bedford-Stuvesant when B.I.G. did. I've always been vocal about being a fan of the [...]
