The passing of my friend, Gerald Oliphant, brings on a confusing onslaught of emotion.

Detroit, MI, from where I hail (most of the time, anyways), is known to be the ‘hair capital of the world’. I’m not sure where or with whom this title originated but whoever and whatever began this, wasn’t lying. To an extent. When I was home for a short stint this month, I saw that [...]

Editor’s Note: She ain’t talkin’ about the damn President.
You know, I wholeheartedly aimed to talk about the increasing violence (not quite as accurate to call it increasing ’cause it’s been alarmingly high for a while, now) in our communities. The need for guns and the will to use them. The way that fight or [...]

About a week ago, I got dumped. By Facebook. I’d devoted over three years of constant affection, late night procrastinating, adding the sprinkles of the usual lover spats over new formatting and exhaustive new feeding much to our mutual dismay (FB decided a filter was finally in order after two years of bitching about it).

…longing for when our communities no longer speak to the destructive bullshit but to the healing real.