Half-Past Thirty

While writing yesterday’s post, I looked at the date in the bottom-right corner of my laptop and noticed the date: May 23, 2016. I was six months and one day into being thirty. As of November 22nd, I will no longer be thirty; I’ll be in my thirties. This doesn’t scare me at all. […]

Meme Crush Monday: The Truth About Overthinking

Today’s Meme Crush Monday is sponsored by…I don’t remember because I’ve had it saved in my phone for quite some time. So, thanks to whomever my Facebook friend is that posted it. Overthinking is self-explanatory. Often, thinking excessively about one particular circumstance gets a bad rap. It has a negative connotation because typically, when […]

#SoccerDadChronicles Season 3, Epidsode 5

I feel as if I wrote this week’s post into existence. I made an anecdote about looking forward to my Orange Monsters playing a particular team this season. So here’s what happened… My nephew came along with my daughter, Cydney and I to soccer this Saturday. We got to the field a little early. […]

Addressing the “What If’s” and the Ones Who Got Away

If I ever introduce you to Christina…she already knows who you are. Christina is a very good friend of mine and confidante. We first met during Morehouse and Spelman College’s Alumnae coordinated for incoming freshman in the summer of 2003. Christina, her best friend, Morgan, my best friend, Brandon, and I used to hang out […]

#SoccerDadChronicles Season 3, Episode 4

For the Orange Monsters, it was another week, another win. This is the most aggressive group of five and six year olds I’ve ever seen in life. They could give the Lost Boys a run for their money. Before heading to the field, I had a conversation with my daughter, Cydney. In our pep […]

Meme Crush Monday: Accountability Ain’t For Everybody

Today’s meme comes from publicity extraordinaire, Anne Edmond, founder of the Craft Agency. Accountable is an adjective used to describe the expectation of responsibility of someone, an organization, or institution, who are typically held to a high regard. While liable, responsible, and “to blame” are words that can used in its place; one cannot hold someone […]

Afro-Puerto Rican Superheroine To Be Unleashed At National Parade In June

“I’m not the activist that I was in my twenties; but I’m an artist, now. And one of the things that I have always realized is that about the arts is that art serves to inspire our spirits,” Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez says was the inspiration in creating superhero, La Borinqueña. US Territory, Puerto Rico is […]

#SoccerDadChronicles Season 3, Episode 3

A few weeks ago, I took my daughter Cydney to Havannah Cafe for brunch. My daughter loves to take my phone and upload videos of herself onto my Snapchat account. Upon regaining possession of it, I noticed an influx in notifications via Instagram. I joked to myself and said “Kevin Hart must have used […]

In Defense of Lauryn Hill

The world is finally fed up with rapper/singer/CP Time enthusiast, Lauryn Hill. Citing she has “difficulty channeling her energy with time,” Ms. Hill apologized to her fans after being welcomed to boos at Atlanta’s Chastain Park over the weekend. Now everyone wants to come at her neck. At this point, a late Lauryn Hill is a part […]

Tweet Through It: A Parent’s Experience on an Elementary School’s Spring Concert

It’s Spring Concert Time! My nephew’s elementary school had its annual extravaganza letting us parents and loved ones know what their kids have been up to. Every Monday, I have dropped my nephew off to Brookside Elementary with his alto saxophone in tow, picked up the same sax at afterschool because he forgot about it; […]