A Product of the Recession

It’s 5:33am and I’m on the Long Island Railroad headed to a new day job. I have been putting off writing about this for six months. I was let go from my high paying job a little over a month into being hired. I was at my desk and was asked to come into the […]

Growing Up and Springtime in the Atlanta University Center

It’s the first day of spring, it’s snowing in New York, and it’s that time of the year when I miss living in Atlanta badly. In Georgia, the “out like a lamb” portion of March is seventy degrees, and the dogwoods have begun to bud leaving that weird floral smell in the air. The thought […]

The Homework Struggle

April 28 will mark one year since Cydney started preschool. My first post on this blog was titled “I Wasn’t Ready,” in which I lamented about my then eighteen month old daughter starting daycare that ended with me saying “That first day is going to be a bitch.” (Looking back at that first post made […]

In Her Father’s Footsteps

It’s no secret that music is everything to me. There is always a song in my head and I talk about it all day. As much as I infer or refer to music in some sense it isn’t very long before an editor says something to me along the lines of “I know you’re a […]

If I Could Compare My Life To An Album…

If there was an album that could describe my life, it would be Jay Z’s fourth album: The Dynasty Roc La Familia. Jay Z released this album at the tail end of 2000. He was about sex weeks away from turning thirty one and you could just feel that the rapper we had all known […]