All Grown Up

Getting old is inevitable. It’s going to happen, no matter how much you go to the gym, pop all the vitamin pills possible, or use some age defying skin cream to make those wrinkles go away (not me, just saying – Good Black don’t crack, unless you’re on it). I was having a talk with [...]

Lost Ones

So while writing a friend of mine, trying to explain why he shouldn’t move out of the “hood” and the merits of staying and making it a home, I had to put myself in his shoes – someone trying to be upwardly mobile, even borderline bougie would obviously believe that the ‘burbs are the promise [...]

Enjoy the Skin You’re In: Nothing Like An Oreo Cookie

With the guidance of mom, I was able to grow up in an environment of diversity. Yes, I stayed in what would be called the hood. The area consisted of the working poor, the bummy poor, and the poor souls that just couldn’t catch a break. My mother knew better then to allow me to [...]

What Is Good Hair

What is Good Hair? Is Good Hair something that you can eat? Does it feel good when you touch it? Does it smell good when you put your nose to it? Does Good Hair comb its own self? Does Good Hair wake up in the morning and wash that man right out of your hair? [...]

One Man’s Flower is Another Man’s Weed

MOM: Come on, let’s go! CHILD: But I want to play with the flowers. MOM: They’ll be here when you get back. If you could only see the joy in this child’s face as he was playing in the grass, messing with what he thought to be flowers. If you never made it out of [...]

U.N. Predicts Urban Population Explosion

(June 30) — By next year, more than half the world’s population, 3.3 billion people, will for the first time live in towns and cities, and the number is expected to swell to almost five billion by 2030, according to a United Nations Population Fund report released yesterday. A United Nations study predicts that the [...]

Free Writing: Rain

While exploring the Blogosphere, I’ve come across Greg’s Writing Blog. I find the site interesting as I attempt to improve my writing (I’m not a writer at all. I take better pictures than write). Here is my attempt at what Greg calls ‘Free Writing.’ The rule is simple (see details): Get a timer and set [...]

Taxi Cab Confession: What’s Wrong with America?

“You know what’s wrong with America?,” The cab driver asked me. I wasn’t too sure on how to respond. As I know there is plenty wrong with America. I could have started with immigrants and the issues with the US Border Patrol. I could have gone as far as telling him about the outdated education [...]

Smoking Is Fun Again, eCigarette

HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) – It feels like a cigarette, looks like a cigarette but it isn’t bad for your health. A Chinese company marketing the world’s first “electronic” cigarette hopes to double sales this year as it expands overseas and as some of China’s legions of smokers try to quit. Golden Dragon Group Ltd’s [...]

Weed It & Weep! Granny’s Busted

BY CHRISENA COLEMAN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER She is 71 years old, a great-grandmother – hardly the type of person you would expect to see in Bronx Criminal Court to answer charges of buying two dime bags of pot. Yet at the appointed time today, Barbara Jackson will make her way to the courthouse, a [...]

It Was All Your Fault

“You decided to spill my blood” are the words that echo in my head. Since when is it my fault that you want to shoot me dead? At what point is it my fault that you are so hurt inside of your heart and head that you have to kill other people? Sure, people didn’t [...]

One Dollar, One Dollar: How to ‘Pimp Your Kids’

Maybe I’m showing my age, but I remember the days when there were little old men and women selling chocolate bars and gum out of little carry -on cases as they moved from subway car to subway car. Ah, those were the days, if you got lucky, you could get your sugar fix, buy batteries [...]

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