All Black Folks Do NOT Look Alike

Somewhere In The Middle

July 21, 2010

Most of my days are spent thusly: I wake up and grab a cup of coffee, start rooting around the kitchen for breakfast, and then begin the ritual of taking out the carrying tray that I take up to my mother. Mornings are hard for her and I bring her food to her since it’s [...]

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Grandma Gets An A

July 1, 2010

My sister has been at my house every weekend for the past three weeks. I’ve lived in my new house for three weeks. That right there is some serious sisterly dedication. The first weekend was to help me move, the second weekend was to attend Mason’s graduation, and this last weekend was to help me [...]

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My Top 15, no 18, Hip Hop Artists

June 29, 2010

Since a few readers asked me about hip hop music that I listen to after reading my review of Thomas Chatterton Williams’s book Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip Hop Culture, I thought I’d list my favorite hip hop songs and artists of late. Truthfully, I have been putting [...]

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Mostly Just Pictures

April 25, 2010

Every time I have some sort of adventure and my time is spent in the company of ridiculously awesome people, I tend to take a lot of pictures. Like any good iPhone user, I have been toying around with the Hipstamatic camera. The sheer number of pictures I have taken is astounding. There was a [...]

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This Door Not Open

March 24, 2010

A few summers ago I took my camera and headed on a little tour of places I like to visit and snapped a lot of photos. I don’t get to play around with photography as much as I want, but I have a little collection of favorites. The red door of the First Presbyterian Church [...]

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A Quick Follow Up to Issues of Race

March 23, 2010

There’s just no way right now to sum up all the things that I experienced yesterday when reading the phenomenal comments left by readers on my post “I’m Black Irish and I’m Proud” because, well, it is just too much at the moment. The comments sticking out to me are the ones where readers just [...]

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I’m Black Irish and I’m Proud

March 22, 2010

Yesterday I came into contact with a racist. A table full of them to be exact. My contact with them could have gone much better on my part. But I’m cynical about this sort of stuff having grown up light-skinned enough to “pass”. I come by that honestly. Now, my father, on the other hand, [...]

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A Special Somebody

February 27, 2010

This is my nephew Kenny. Yesterday was his birthday. This picture is two years old, but it’s my favorite picture of him. He gave me my one and only Valentine’s card this year. He used to steal my laptop from me when I visited his mom (my sister) and then he would write lovely, long [...]

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Hot Wing Hangover

February 9, 2010

Well, I’ve just gotten over quite the hot wing hangover. All I have to say is that the next time I say, “No, let’s not BUY PRE-MADE stuff for the Super Bowl Party. Let’s do it all from scratch!” then someone needs to stop me. Because there’s a new fryer in the house and the [...]

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Probably Shouldn’t Say Anything

February 2, 2010

I wrote this two weeks ago and couldn’t bring myself to publish it. **************************** When you get a new job and you meet new co-workers and spend new time with them it’s normal for conversations to go from ‘Wow, we like the same things and I had no idea you were a Libertarian and did [...]

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