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16 years ago or January 19, 1994, my namesake and firstborn graced the world with his pale yellow face. Before he was old enough to do much more than eat and poop and cry (sometimes in that order), he taught me something extraordinary – how to love unconditionally.

It’s been amazing sharing with you amidst a busy year of personal and professional growth. Thank you for your support. I am grateful and blessed to have you in my life. Merry musings and wishing you a happy two thousand and kenn. Er… uhmm… I mean ten – wishing you a happy two thousand and ten.

If “random black person” wants to flaunt their ignorance and/or disrespect of their own culture and American history, so be it. It’s not my business. BUT when my 11-year old takes a seeming inevitable interest in hip hop, it’s only a matter of time before I have to engage in the N-word talk.

Sunlight peers from behind a drifting cloud but the sharp bite of a pre-winter wind remarks that this is indeed the dawn of November and the beginning of National Novel Writers Month or NaNoWriMo.

Last year as a participant of NaNoWriMo, I began writing my first novel, Pious…