Not Black Enough

Each day is a treasure to be home in my office when my sons come home from school.  The first to burst through the door is my 14 year.  There are days when he bursts through the door and there are days when he barely pours across the threshold.  There are days when he will [...]

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I’m Holding On To February

Now that we have a Black President I have heard rumblings that some feel Black History Month is no longer necessary. Growing up Black History Month simply meant we would hear the “I Have A Dream Speech,” in school and talk about Fredrick Douglas, Pierre Toussaint L’Ouverture, Nat Turner, Eli Whitney, Langston Hughes,  Harriet Tubman, [...]

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Privilege or Paranoia

The red and blue lights turned on and began to circle as Mom looks in her rear view mirror.  The police car that sees her before she sees it  is pulling up closer to her car from the rear.  I am in the front passenger seat facing forward unaware of the cruiser quickly approaching us. [...]

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Forgive Me Please

This is just a short note to those that visit my blog.  I so appreciate you stopping by and reading my thoughts.  I especially like the comments and enjoy hearing your thoughts. I just wanted to post a short note apologizing for the inconsistent posts lately.  My excuse is I have been spending all my [...]

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Making Nuggets With God

Sitting still in church has always been a struggle for me.  Remembering back to the days when Dad would preach, I recall fighting off sleep or wrestling with unused energy.  The hard wooden pew on my small bottom didn’t make the bout any easier. One Sunday, I took the cards that were in the back [...]

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Excuse My Layers of Yuck

16 years I ago I said “I do” and I should of said, “I didn’t.”  At 26 years old, I didn’t understand marriage.  I didn’t have the maturity level to handle being married.  I didn’t think beyond the honeymoon and I didn’t realize what “I do” really meant. My wife endured the fact that I [...]

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MY WIFE AND THE PRIEST

It is 9:00 am on a hot summer’s morning.  The thermometer already reads close to 80 degrees and the sun has barely cleared the tall tree in my backyard.  I am in my bed trying to steal back the 90 minutes I lost delivering the morning paper. It is the last few weeks before my [...]

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Missing: My 13 Year Old Son

Searching through the rain drops I look for my 13 year old son, Tai.  He is at the local horse track running a cross country meet.  I know it doesn’t make much sense, but yes, they are having a cross country meet on the track where horses run. It is 5:15 pm and Tai’s race [...]

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If Peyton Manning Can Call An Audible, So Can I

Peyton Manning, one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, often changes his mind. He comes to the line, looks across at the defense and by the way they are lined up he senses the play they were going to run will not work.  So he calls an audible.  He changes the play originally called [...]

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A Job Lost and The Fetal Positions Calls Me

The news of losing my job creates a hurricane of feelings inside my chest.  I vacillate between pure raw fear and excitement.  There is minimal time between the two extremes. The fear that seizes my thoughts is crippling.  The simple act of driving up my driveway releases the thought of the potential the loss of the [...]

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