WHEN YOUR LAST NERVE IS BEING PLUCKED LIKE A STRING ON BO DIDLEY’S GUITAR
At zero-dark-thirty, night-after-night, my brain, functioning against my orders like a disobedient child, would defiantly start cranking out thoughts, repeatedly reliving incidents of the day, inventing possible tasks and scenarios […]
MENTAL GRIDLOCK & THE ROAD TO CLARITY
I have been mentally constipated. There is no pretty way to describe my ailment. Words, ideas, feelings have been crammed in my head, seemingly fighting for space, keeping me up night after […]
Blackhaustion 2
Give us any chance we’ll take it Read us any rule we’ll break it We’re going to make our dreams come true Doing it our way Nothing’s going to hold […]
BLACKHAUSTION: The Overwhelming Fatigue of Being Black in America
Blackhaustion (pronounced: Black-zah-tion) is the overwhelming fatigue experienced from being Black in America. Symptoms: Only choosing to go to places socially where you think there will be mostly […]
My Backpack of Bricks
Being a Black man is a wonderful thing. I love my skin, I love my features, I love our culture, our food and our women. Being a Black man in […]
Hurricane Harvey & Pepto-Bismol
One of the things that scares me about writing a blog is that I may sound like a know-it-all. Who hell am I to write about subjects as if I […]