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To the Person Who I Apparently Share an Email With, You Have a Job Offer on the Table, Bro
My real name, while not traditional, isnāt exactly unique. This means that I remember when Gmail first dropped, and I did a mad dash (did you have to be invited back then? I canāt remember) to get my [email protected] account. And I did. Iāve had that email account for well over a decade now, and…
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Some Observations I Observed During My Trip to Target Today in the Midst of These Pandemic Times
I went to Target today. Actually, I went to PetSmart and Target today because one of our fish went to be with his ancestors and one of my kids was despondent over this fact. Now, we told him that because he was sick that Petco came to pick him up when the UPS guy stopped…
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9 Things I've Learned Since the Coronavirus, aka COVID-19, aka #ThatRona, Has Become Part of All of Our Lives
Iāve seen with my own two eyes SEVERAL people walk clean up out the public restroom without washing their hands. And it turns out that yelling, āSIR!!! SIR!!!ā does not make people see the error in their ways. Whew chile, the ghetto. Do you think you nasty motherfuckers can just do your part and be…
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Thanks to My Kids, I Hope to Never Hear āWho Let The Dogs Outā Again. Iāll Probably Listen to It Again This Afternoon
Weāve been down this old town road before. A few months ago, my wife and I took my two boys to Monster Jam, the traveling monster truck competition and demonstration show during its Washington, D.C. stop. One of the trucks, Monster Mutt, comes out to Baha Menās 2000, Grammy-award winning (!!!!!) cover, āWho Let The…
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How Black Is it Not to Know the Real Names of Folks in Your Family? Possibly Ever.
So, I have a question thatās been perplexing me that will illuminate some things, possibly about me and you, your momma and your cousin, too. Iām hoping that Iām not alone in this; in fact, Iām assuming that Iām not. The question is: How black is this? But thereās a sub-question here, too. You see,…
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My Daughter Came Down With The Flu and I Learned All About My Family Medical History
The Washington, D.C. area has been hit particularly hard with the flu this season. At my daughterās school, for instance, as many as 41 kids were out at one time. My boysā school also felt like a ghost town on several separate days. All three of my children came down with the flu; my daughter…
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Visiting Cape Coast and Elmina āSlave Castlesā: In Everlasting Memory of the Anguish of Our Ancestors
When I was 12 or 13 and living in Frankfurt, Germany, my parents loaded my siblings and me into the car and we drove about four hours south and east to a small-ish town in the Bavarian region that was the site of the first concentration camp opened in Nazi Germany: Dachau. Built in 1933…
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10 Thoughts and Observations About My First Trip to Ghana (and Africa)
When I got married in October 2018, my wife and I broached the idea of going to Accra, Ghana, for our honeymoon. Now, this wasnāt a random āLetās go to Africa!ā ideation; Iād never been to the African continent in any of my travels and had wanted to go, and my wife grew up in…
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Stepping on Shit in the Middle of the Night: A Discourse on Parenting Little Children
Iād like to be one of those parents who can say that my kids have never heard me use profanity. But I canāt do that. In fact, if you live within a mile of my house, it is highly likely that if you have kids, theyāve heard me use profanity. Stepping on shit my kids…
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I'm About to Get My Year of the Return on in Ghana and I'm Stressing Over What and How Many Shoes to Bring
What started out as a thought about going to Ghana for our honeymoon in 2018 has me and my wife preparing to head back to her home country in a few days. My wifeāwho was born in Abidjan, Cote DāIvoire, but grew up in Accra, Ghana, until moving to the United States in the early…
