My Fall Rewind: An Ode to Self-Care-“It’s On Tonight”

Sam Salter’s “It’s On Tonight” reminds me of my first stage in adolescence. It sounds like a Vaughn Harper introduced throughout his quiet storm radio show, while I sat in the passenger’s side of my parents’ cars, as we voyaged from Manhattan to our apartment in Queens on a summer night. I loved these drives […]

My Summer Rewind: An Ode to Self-Care 14-“Ricky”

“No matter how tall you get, you’ll always be looking up to me,” I replied in a tone mixed with love and sarcasm. I can admit I am not ready for my nephew to be taller than me; but the emotions are more or less tied to the acceptance of time and not his change […]

Seven Years of Single Dadventures

August 29, 2019: Today marked seven years since Single Dadventure(s) went live. Shortly after I regained custody of my daughter, Cydney, I came up with this idea to start two blogs: one as my love letter to all of my friends and family who kept mine in prayer through tragedy and another about my love […]

The First Day of Kindergarten

I attended Kindergarten at Allen Christian School on Merrick Boulevard in the St. Albans area of Queens, NY. Of my first day, my sister and I walked into the classroom, we met our teacher, her assistant, and a fresh box of Legos were opened for the new students to play with. In my mind, […]

Cydney’s Graduation

My little girl graduated from Pre-K yesterday. Cydney has been preparing for the day for quite some time. About two months ago, I was asked to pick Cydney up no earlier than 5 pm so that she can rehearse for it. There were poems to practice and songs I didn’t want her to sing […]

Growing Up Means Outgrowing

I was picking Cydney up from school the other afternoon. As I walked into her door, I saw that the children were rehearsing a routine to “We Go Together” from Grease. That was the moment shit got real: I caught all of the fucking feels. The closing of an era will occur in two […]

Tweet Through It: A Parent’s Thoughts During Their Child’s Christmas Show

While I don’t get to use the app as much as I used to, I love Twitter. It gives people the chance to express their thoughts in 140 character outbursts. There is nothing in the world like it. The number one best thing about Twitter is when all factions of #BlackTwitter congregate and give their […]

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 […]

Cydney’s First Three Weeks of School

So I was supposed to write about Cydney’s first week of school, then it became her second, then a third happened, and we are ankle deep into week 4. After all of the hoopla of the first day of school Cydney was over it. She came home beyond pooped. I woke her up the […]

Cydney’s First Day Of School

My first post on this blog was about how I wasn’t ready for Cydney to start daycare. After lots of going back and forth and needing the space Monday was the day. Cydney started preschool. I have been getting everything together for the last couple of weeks. Medical records: check. Uniforms: check. Money: for the […]