Declare It Then Own It
With a communications degree from Wake Forest University, I’ve studied language a lot in the past and focused on it more recently. I’ve learned a funny little thing about it: If you speak something, you identify with that definition. Meaning, you might like the Jets, or the Chicago Bears, and say you’re a football fan; but something in the […]
If We Own The Ingredients, We Own the Sauce
My grandfather had a career in IT—he must have been a pioneer in the black community. He didn’t have the nicest home, but he lived far better than most of the people I grew up with. My grandfather taught me how to speak more properly, how to think by having me read the signs to find […]
How You Do Anything is How You Do Everything
As I’ve been doing more speaking after the Covid years it’s been harder to find father/son time with my youngest—who is almost eleven. I eventually decided that we could work out together: 6 am is very early for him. His former living situation (he was not full-time with me until recently) was much more relaxed. The first week […]