I left the house bundled up like an Eskimo and headed to school. It was freezing cold outside. I had on my new, rabbit-fur lined boots. I loved those boots. They were fluffy outside and knee high. Mom tried to get me practical boots that were big, ugly and waterproof but I wasn’t having that. [...]
Archive for March, 2011
When I was growing up, my mother was pretty damn broke and we ate a lot of baloney sandwiches. I was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio in an all African American, poor neighborhood. My sister and I were what they called back in the day “high-Yellow”. During the summer, the local swimming pool served [...]
Approximately 9 years ago in April of 2000, my friend, we will call her Glo, and I were headed to South Beach to go see a friend of mines open up for the rap group Mobb Deep. Anthony asked me to be there early so that I could go on stage with them and help [...]
This Fourth of July I decided to do something I rarely do. My close neighbors, a very nice, older Jamaican couple always ask me come by and join them whenever they have a cookout or family get-together, so I decided to take them up on their offer. I usually don’t join them because I’m not [...]
After Grandma died, everybody in the family went haywire. I never realized that Mom wasn’t really around that much, because I loved Grandma so much that it didn’t matter to me one way or another. Aunt Gretchen started drinking really bad. Aunt Mary started shooting Heroine. My favorite cousin became a pimp. And me, well [...]