Madness

An old co-worker of mine has a friend named Barbara who has a 30 year old son with Down's Syndrome. His name is LT. One day, Barbara left for work as usual and left LT at home to his own devices. It was a typical…

It's been a while since I've had to bitch about my douche-bag-baby-daddy, Courtney the Platypus; but in true form, he's back after 3-4 weeks, like a bad case of herpes. First, let me explain why he is now being referred to as a platypus. My…

My little brother Sami recently went to Chicago for a bachelor party/dude's  night out. Being a first time tourist in the city, he said he had his head tilted backward looking up at the immense downtown from below. "We ate a lot," he said. "It…

It was the day he had been waiting for since they broke up in 2005. Adj was finally getting married, and he was free to release all the woe and regret that had been building up and twisting in his heart for these last few…

Have you ever had a person in your life that just lied their way through their daily  existence? I mean like every other sentence is just a straight up falsehood? We've all told our share of fibs, Lord knows I have; but I never knew…

Maybe I'm not a "for real" Christian: I'm willing to concede that; but there are fewer phrases that make me cringe than "God told me to blah, blah, blah." Whenever I hear anybody, Christian or not, utter the words "God told me", my first thought…

Fact: 71% of all Black American babies are born to unwed mothers and will most likely grow up without the presence of their biological father. A quick polling of my top five friends confirmed this. 3 of those ladies grew up with a step-father, one…

My sister Adwoa's boyfriend has proclaimed her the second worst stripper/dancer on the planet. He has identified me as the first. The details as to why he would think my younger  sibling is such a horror in the art of seduction via dance have not…

This Wednesday I was summoned to court on contempt charges by my daughter's douche bag sire. I can't assign him the title "biological father" or "baby daddy", because even those monikers carry more respect than he deserves. Anyhow, the charges read: Refusing visitation and Illegally…

I'm really hoping to go to Ghana this summer with the girls. I'm in the midst of looking for a Twi teacher to help them assimilate a little bit better, and have been plying them with plantain and stew so that they can appreciate good…