I’m sorry we never met. Mom tells me you were a great man. Dad and I don’t talk otherwise I might’ve learned that from him. Mom also thinks you made Mama and your boys better people. Is that something a father hopes for? There is so much we don’t know about you. I know you …
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Happy Belated Birthday to Me
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 marked the start of my 27th year in this life. Every year, I fail to reflect because I’m surrounded by friends and family and friends that have become family who occupy my time and thoughts. This year was different. This year I had a stressful day at work, went to the …
Sunday Night Skate Sesh
All I needed today was to get off my ass and skate. It took until ten o’clock at night to do it. Shuffling past all the laundry there is no motivation to fold, I step into the bathroom. My face gets scrutinized in the mirror the way it always does. Gaze drifting across the stray …
How I Started Using “Y’all” & Why You Should Too
From Merriam-Webster.com How y’all doing? Great? Good. In northeast Ohio where I grew up, almost nobody uses the contraction “y’all”. We are too far north for it to be an everyday colloquialism and often consider ourselves too “educated” to use something outside the realm of grammatical correctness. If the teachers can’t accept it written in a …