My ex-wife and her family, spent the 2020 Thanksgiving with me and my family.
Ours is a blended family born out of maturity, understanding and love.
Here’s our story.
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Cancer took my friend. I want people to know, the world lost a gentle, good, wonderful person today….
My friend George W Scott.
Here’s how we met, and how his movie, Last Castle, brought us together.
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What makes a young liberal minded, socially conscious activist and defender of the disenfranchised, grow old and turn into a pull yourself up by your bootstraps, social services limiting, get off my lawn, conservative?
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The excellence of Black Is King had me thinking about mythical way we at times depict Africa.
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An unexpected childhood gift during racial times, forever imbedded in my memory, relived, as the most thoughtful birthday gift I have ever received…
A Blue Baseball Glove
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The death of Robin Williams, 3 years ago, pushed me, for the first time, to openly discuss my own battles with depression, with a Facebook post.
With the recent anniversary of Mr. Williams death, I felt that post was worth republishing on my blog. The stigma of mental health is still strong in Black and African communities, yet the struggle remains real for many.
We need to reach out to those that struggle everyday and let them know, that the light in the tunnel, is inside them.
No-one should silently suffer, alone.
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This past US election awaken my childhood memories of living through multiple coups in Nigeria.
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The experience I had being arrested in Georgia, forever changed my trust in the police. And solidified the realization, that I am not included amongst those they pledged to "serve and protect".
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Born premature, at only 26 weeks, my daughter started behind a wall of adversity. 15 years later, I celebrate her intelligence, beauty, strength and her fight.....
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My wife and I forgot our anniversary for all the right reasons...
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I look at the part that, race, and the 1982 French World Cup team, played in shaping my rooting interests for international sports, and the lack of diversity on the 2015 World Cup winning, USA Women's National Team.
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NYC is my first love.
I lived tons of places. My parents, and subsequently I moved, around quite a bit. However it is NYC that serves as the thread that strings my life together.
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Father's Day! Being a father, along with being a husband and partner, is the most important thing in my life.
But what does father's day mean to me and my father? Well here, it is more complicated than I would have ever wished.
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