Being marginalized as an African American in the United States has always been somewhat to my advantage. I’ve never seen much point…
Today, I am an educator, a tenured full professor at a major university. Teaching is really a giving profession. To do it really well…
One of the reasons I established Simple Word Publications was because of my impulse to, from time to time, publish short…
I was once with a group of undergraduate classmates on a lithography class excursion to the Museum of Modern Art (called the MoMA for short) to see a…
Kids know when a promise has been broken. You can see it in their eyes. At some point during my elementary schooling, I became…