Not only did he live with her but she worked in the lounge! That’s what I found out upon my first interactions with “him” in months. My newly single crush had just been honest with me. Brutally. I was unaffected … we all had known there was some reason my…

Monday night – when I should have been at home waiting for Heros to come on I found my self in Harlem … on a date. Not that the date was supposed to be in Harlem, it so happened that after picking me up in the city my suitor decided…

I’ve realized I don’t have a love story. Don’t we all have one? A passionate lusty sometimes even dirty tale of disarray or sheer bliss once lived. I have no drama filled past of twisted tangled engagements. I have tales of maybes and would haves that mean nothing more than…

My grandmother has always had the softest hands I’ve ever felt. Whether she was using them to grow things in her small garden or flicking cards out in a mean spade game the texture remained the same. As children we only heard tales of how old grandma was. These tales…

Won’t ever apologize for being who or how I have become. However how I feel when I am perceived by others as something I’m not amuses me. The few I loosely call friends mean something to me although friends of theirs will never know me the same way. This whole…

Are finger waves back? It’s come to my attention that quite a few non-mentionable women are sporting this helmet headed 90’s style frequently. I myself adorned this “do” in the early years of high school. I understand there’s nothing new under the sun but not everything is meant to come…

In the light of current events this subject appeared sort of on accident. The coincidence of timing is impeccable. Since I have been in New York I have slowly learned that there are different kinds of “black people”. Bad enough I have chosen to be thrown into the world’s melting…