April 16, 2026 What to Do with My Newfound Demise Yesterday the IRS informed me that they couldn’t accept my return because I am deceased. It was news to me. I better get that…
April 14, 2026 Time & Space We measure time in many ways. We measure it in the last time I saw you, the last time we spoke. The space between…
October 26, 2025 My Favorite Girl …you brought me in this world Happy Ancestral Birthday, Mom! As I celebrate your 95th year—only 68 on this side of the plane, way…
October 12, 2025 45th Reunion Yesterday was homecoming and my 45th high school class reunion. The class of ’80, the first desegregated class to matriculate through the Evanston Public…
October 6, 2025 Happy Ninety-Ninth No paper trail.No midwife’s mark.No certificate to prove the day. Just Marlboro County fields,tobacco barns breathing their smoke,and the cry of the first of…
September 8, 2025 To Momma The last few days my head has been a little muzzy; I’ve been in a weird place. At first, I thought it was just…
August 4, 2025 Better (not) Call Tyrone This one is personal. I’m sharing it here because I know some of y’all will feel this too—maybe too well. I’m not writing him…
July 25, 2025 The Ghost in the Mulch Pile Originally written August 2022 This weekend I had an “ah-ha” moment—one of those realizations that many Black people may already know deep down, but…
July 10, 2025 Bunny Rabbits & Fireflies Bunny Rabbits & Fireflies This morning, I sat on my deck and watched three bunnies nibble at the morning dew in the grass. Not…
June 16, 2025 Fatherhood By definition, it’s just “the state or time of being a father.”But for me, it’s something deeper—one of the greatest joys a man can…
