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I hate being wrong. Yes, I know.  You don’t either.  No one wants to be wrong,  which is weird that the idea has evolved into an aphorism, even as aphorisms go.  It’s so obvious that it doesn’t even deserve to be a cliche. But really tho, it does suck.  Being wrong. All through high school…

Today we started to take Noelle’s dreadlocks down. It’s a tedious, fantastic task to pull hundreds of thousands of hairs apart, fibers that have been bound together for almost eight years. It takes some moisture, more conditioner, and even more patience. Locks aren’t supposed to be removed. The process is supposed to be a permanent…

This in another one of those posts that aren’t really about anything, but I feel better and better typing it as I go along. I have to write today. I mean, I came up with some GREAT topics, but there still on that desktop sticky app. I don’t know why I left them behind. I…

I keep telling myself that I’m not a writer. I do it as I’m editing content, drafting a press release, writing copy for a website, or working on an essay to publish on Medium. Why? because that’s the easiest way to stay right where I am. Not fail, not succeed. Just stay. See, it’s our…

This post comes to you during a break from a spring/summer/all moved in after 16 months cleaning session. We bought our home in February 2019, and today was the day that I unpacked our last box. The house was built in 1912, and its wooden frame feels swollen with history, with life. It teems through…

Friday evening, Noelle, Archie, and I were enjoying the start of our evening mile walk through the neighborhood, when I noticed the ivy growing on the side of a garage next to a funeral home. Its lustrous green leaves poked stiffly from the length of a serpentine stem, which I discovered – upon closer inspection…

I had a really great day today.  I finished a big work project, my wife and I had a great Friday date night, and I love Batman: Arkham Knight. It doesn’t always have to be that deep.

This post comes to you from nearly 4 months of not working due to COVID-19. The company has been shuttered since St. Patrick’s Day, and today we just got word that one of our resident performers – one of our family – has tested positive for the disease. Noelle and I frantically contact traced, and…

When I’m ready to write, I am READY, y’all … my brain starts to light up with bolts of ideas, my pulse quickens a little, and before I can even put my fingers on the keys I’m babbling into the notes app on my phone (which makes me feel like a TV psychiatrist, but we…

Today is Philando Castile Day. I wish that it was as beautiful and styled of a day as its name – his name – suggests. I remember being awestruck when I first heard it. Philando Castile. You could just tell that it was picked carefully, and with love. He grew into a man with cool…