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Archive for November, 2007

 
 
Chill and Tina Sanders met at my Christmas party in Harlem. Something told me that the fake nail wearing, hair weave throwing Black princess from my job would be the kind of girl that Chill would be into. Tina had a history of dating men in prison. Chill liked sistas with big tits and succulent [...]

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As a child, Aunt Martha reminded Jesus every day that he was the one. After he finished his chores, pulling grains of wheat from long green stems, she sat him down on her lap and told him the story of how he became the bread of life.

Wise men treaded from the East and found him as [...]

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Private Williams was as unwelcome in the military as a ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ homosexual with bleached blonde hair. He was as cute as an E-2 stripe, but as straight as a Marine’s back in the push-up position.He was a cocky guy who almost everyone wanted to knock down a peg or two.

I saw [...]

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Amishism

The recent crash of the housing market is the best thing to happen to America’s bread basket since sliced bread. Sure it’s scary now, but stop and smell what’s cookin’— even the rich will lose the roof over their buns soon in this broiling recession.
When I was a child, my mother received state Medicaid health [...]

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Sweet potato pie is a rich delicacy than can be made inexpensively. The auburn tinted, tuber- based dessert is more than just soul food. It is a fresh alternative to pumpkin pies.
It is insensitive to be a guest at a Thanksgiving meal and show up with a dessert purchased at a bakery or a simple [...]

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History Channel International aired a documentary on the Mayan calendar this evening. The world as we know it is going to end for mankind on December 21, 2012, according to the premium cable channel.
Rather than view time in a straight line, the Mayan’s understood time in cycles. With mankind’s most thorough understanding of the heavens, [...]

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I was in a private suite on the far side of Mount Morris Bath House where walk-in rooms are located. I insisted that Shawn go for a walk–
“Give me some time alone. Go find us a Puerto Rican to play with.”
“Do not let anyone else in here until I get back, Charles.”
“Alright. Just let me [...]

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I was issued a Top Secret security clearance while serving in the United State Army. I was a communications security custodian. With just three others in my squad; a lieutenant and a captain, I was held accountable for maintaining electronic codes and deciphered encryptions of the English alphabet– tools for speaking over radio transmissions safely, [...]

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Heavenly Chalkboard

 
A sky of turquoise was sweetened with cotton candy clouds and it swirled above me like sugar spun in a heated metal wheel at a carnival.
Down by the pond, just beyond my grandfather’s forgotten barn, I reached to my feet and picked up a turtle. I looked for carvings on the bottom shell. The hard, [...]

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