5 Things I Know For Sure

1. Life is about rela­tion­ships, not mon­ey.   2. Nev­er take any­thing too seri­ous­ly. At even the dark­est times, it’s not that bad.   3. Every­one fights a bat­tle at some point in their life. Every­one. Whether you can see it or not.   4. Cheese and bacon makes every­thing taste bet­ter.   5. God is real.

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20 Things I Hope To Teach My Sons

1. Love and pro­tect your broth­er. Always. 2. Under­stand that how­ev­er you feel right now, your feel­ings are like­ly to change. 3. To the best of your abil­i­ty, hon­or your word. 4. Nev­er hold on to griev­ances. Take noth­ing per­son­al­ly. Life is but a dream. We’re not real­ly here, we’re just fig­ments of Gods imag­i­na­tion. 5. […]

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How I Learned to Trust Again…

My 7‑year-old son, Jere­mi­ah, has been suck­ing his thumb since birth. When he began devel­op­ing teeth, a cal­lous start­ed form­ing on his thumb in the area where teeth hit skin. About that same time I began devel­op­ing a very pla­ton­ic friend­ship with a man I met at church. It was slow at first, a brief […]

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Love Feels Like…

Have you ever been so in love with some­one that you’re con­vinced that no one in the world is as lucky as you? You’re con­vinced that some­how God saw it fit to bless you at this time and in this way…in such a way that he has nev­er blessed any­one else ever, and brought a man […]

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Please Baby Please Light My Fire

Writ­ing used to come much eas­i­er for me. Thoughts invad­ed my mind late in the mid­night hours, obstruct­ing my sleep, beck­on­ing me to get out of bed, turn on my lap­top and get them all down on paper, in con­crete before they left me, nev­er to be seen or heard from again. I used to enjoy […]

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To The Modern Gentleman

I don’t know if men have a per­son­al vendet­ta against women or if the good ones real­ly are an endan­gered species, soon to be extinct. What­ev­er the case, I still like to think I’ll choose bet­ter next time. No, this is not anoth­er sad love song about men and their short­com­ings, but an exposé, if […]

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Young Chris Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

Young Chris, bet­ter known as one half of the duo, Young Gunz, is back to rein­tro­duce him­self. He meant what he said when he and his part­ner Neef gained much suc­cess with their sin­gle “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop.”  With his new­ly released mix­tape as a solo artist titled apt­ly, The Re-Intro­­duc­­tion, it is evi­dent that Young Chris has matured and […]

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