I sat in coach on my return from Chicago to Oakland. It was a very crowded flight, and even arriving as early as I did, I was unable to secure an exit row seat. But I did get the bulkhead, bulkhead window to be exact. I used to go along with the […]
HUMOR/TRAVEL
It’s another glorious Thursday night in the San Francisco Bay Area and me and the crew, or rather, the Crew and I set out to do some celebrating. It’s almost Friday and by all accounts, it has been a rough week. That’s reason enough to celebrate. But we had actually convened for a […]
I recently paid a visit to Cinnabar’s Wine Tasting room in Saratoga, California. Mercury Rising was the first pour that I would enjoy. Modest, yet confident. Whatever that means! They actually had this set of trading cards with clever wine sayings on them so that you can derive hours and hours of […]
I was getting cabin fever to the fullest, so I decided not to cancel the trip to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic after all. I had no idea my knee surgery would be this severe, nor did I know that the rehab would be so lengthy. So while I didn’t turn the town […]
Do you remember that game Mousetrap that you played as a kid? There was that little ball and the stair steps, and the spiral and the see-saw and the basket and all of those other contraptions to make your mousetrap work. I don’t think I ever owned it but one of my friends did and […]
Since the Tamara Gregorys of the world have made it quite clear that it would be nice to see us in something other than some shell-toes and a Fat Albert t-shirt, let me put you up on game, fellas.
Why? Because I don’t want you to get tripped up by the pet peeves and so Tamara […]
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So, as we contemplated becoming an angry mob (led by my man D who was absolutely fuming) complete with torches and bloodhounds in search of Lil’ Whyte-T, I was in laughing-to-keep-from-crying mode. I was amused that somebody that so rarely gets “took” in any part of […]
The sirens, sweltering heat, the rumbling of the B, D and #4 trains and street level conversations at 174th and Walton awakened me at about 10:30 on Sunday morning. Rather than try to fight it, I practically jumped up off the air mattress in the middle of the living room like a kid on Christmas […]
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
Really, in a nutshell, that sums up last weekend for me. Yes, that’s right, I said weekend. This was that rare personal trip for me, which means a) It’s not company sponsored so, b) I’m trying to make like Rachel Ray and […]
This week was truly an exercise in durability and endurance as I was on more flights (9 to be exact) than there are days in a week, and spent almost as much time in transit (55 hours) as I actually did in the locations themselves (95 hours). As you may have gathered by now, […]