Five Ways to Irk Your Middle School Teacher
I love my students. God knows I do. But they get on my gotdawg nerves. Somedays, I go home completely outdone and as Darrel J. Hunt says, “You can’t outdo black people”. He was wrong. I am a black …
Every Child Is A Classroom (draft)
It is a challenge of will and discipline to write, daily. To not know what to write about. To work, without reward. Maybe, a grade. And what if you don’t like writing? What if, writing is not easy …
The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook
Yesterday was pretty awesome. The long awaited anthology The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook launched. Tons of Detroiters. A few transplants, but hey… Big thanks to Aaron K. Foley, for the opportunity and for the platform to showcase Detroit’s many …
Everybody Loves Burpees
Right? I mean, everybody who works out, goes to bed every evening, having prayed to the WOD gods, and asked for nothing other than the Blessed Burpee to show up on the board the next day, right? Oh. …