Today is the holiday to celebrate once again the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I don’t think I’ve ever said this before but every year this holiday comes up I think of how strange it is to have a holiday named after someone who was alive when I was alive. To me, it […]
I’ve been writing this blog for almost 7 years now, and I noticed that I’ve never said “Merry Christmas” in any posts here, and only used it once in a title, that being last year when I posted a video of Josh Groban singing O Holy Night. I don’t think I’ve used the phrase in […]
Last week I had lunch with a friend of mine. We were talking about each other’s businesses and our profile, so to speak, on Twitter. He said that in general he liked things I said, but wished I didn’t concentrate on race as much. I said a lot of things to him in explaining why […]
About 2 1/2 months ago I took what I considered as kind of a drastic step. I removed my image from my website and from this blog. I knew it would still come up if I responded to people’s comments, but figured something that small is often passed over by people. I wrote about it […]
Earlier today I received an email from one of my online friends thanking me for a post I wrote on my other blog titled 8 of the Top Black Individual Blogs. She didn’t write me because she was included, which unfortunately she wasn’t because of the criteria I’d set for inclusion. She wrote because she […]