In My ‘Hood…

Mark Lyons was the neighborhood bully when I was growing up. He was one grade higher than the rest of us and was always ordering someone around. He wasn’t exactly a ring leader but he would bully the younger kids until they finally gave up and let him call the shots. He’d grab one of [...]

Just once I’d like for things to go as planned…

I’m late! I’m late for a very important date!
I feel like this constantly and no matter how good I am at time management (truly my forte’), I just don’t feel like I can catch-up. January and February have been catastrophe months causing a feeling of two steps forward, three steps back.
For example:
Today is my day [...]

A Knight’s Tale

“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”
John Lennon.
I find it interesting, or at the very least, serendipitous, how things find their way into my psyche. Is it coincidence that paths the [...]

Black Soul Virulent Injera Politics of Dancing

Oh, it has been far too long…
I just walked into the boys’ bathroom and caught all three of them, Larry, Mo, and Curly, slapping each other in the face. It was literally a Three Stooges Moment. I scared the hell out of them just by walking across the threshold; the teeny, tiny room went deadly [...]