A Quarantine-Style Baby Shower
How awesome is my sister-in-law? She threw us a surprise drive-by baby shower!
Tag: family
Cinematic Video for my Poem, “Beacon”
Two years ago, I became an organ donor when my wife lost kidney function because of lupus. This video was inspired by the poem I wrote about our experience before our surgeries. I wrote another poem while recovering in my hospital room. This video is part 1 of the journey.
Jaz’s Christmas Surprise
I had to do again: make another “Christmas Surprise” video, starring my soon-to-be 4-year-old. This might become an annual series. Happy Holidays!
An Earlier Heaven
According to George Bernard Shaw, “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” Shaw’s sentiments manifested themselves this past weekend, when Tosin’s cousins and their children vacationed in the DMV from Nigeria. They used the opportunity to visit Rebecca’s mom, Tosin’s aunt, who lives and works in Maryland. We were glad to link up. Our […]
Jaz’s first time at Santa Monica Beach
I’m coming back from our family trip to California to help my wife’s “Granny” (foster mom) celebrate her 80th birthday. Our trip took us from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Santa Monica, then back to Los Angeles. I made this video of Jaz’s first time at Santa Monica Beach.
“I wanted bananas-” (an official trailer for POINT BLANK)
So, I’ve had this manuscript for three years. I sent it out and I’m still working on getting it picked up. This is another trailer for Point Blank. (Here’s the first.) Check it out!
The Light Inside (Video)
Three months ago, I posted the poem, “The Light Inside,” which was inspired by my daughter, Jazmyn King. I wrote that poem while my wife and I awaited her arrival. She’s six weeks outside of the womb, now! Here’s the video for the poem:
A Christmas Post
A lot’s happened since October. I started two new jobs — one full-time (communications specialist for a national nonprofit) and the other part-time (senior editor at a global hip-hop journal). Though the former, more so than the latter, leaves me less time and energy to blog here, I couldn’t be happier. With both positions, I […]
Marian Wright Edelman Fires Up Intergenerational Advocates
EDITOR’S NOTE: I’m writing this article as the Communications Specialist at Generations United. I had a great opportunity to catch Ms. Edelman’s talk earlier this week. Marian Wright Edelman’s pep talk earlier this week came from a different place. It wasn’t the usual eloquent oration of a gifted speaker whose decades of fighting for disadvantaged […]
Curtis Crisler: Migration of a Latchkey Boy
Curtis Crisler’s unnamed speaker is a griot of sorts. His distant kin, fleeing from Jim Crow and southern domestic terrorism, joins the 5 million African Americans who decide to roll out. But they aren’t the first to do so. Others left before them during the first Great Migration (1910 to 1930), which swept two-thirds of 1.6 million […]
Alan W. King 