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August 2008

16 Stunning Fatherhood Facts

In my quest to live a healthier lifestyle, I have become a loyal subscriber to Men’s Health Magazine. It has become my health and fitness bible. In addition to exercise and diet tips, the magazine also has great articles on manhood. In the June 2008 issue, I encountered several fatherhood fact I would like to [...]

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Thoughts on Barack Obama

I promised that I would not write about Barack Obama unless he won the election. My daughter made me break my promise. She is only seven, but she is obsessed with Obama. She constantly asks about him, former presidents, and the U.S. election process. Her obsession began last year when my wife bought her the [...]

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Who’s Gonna Take the Weight?

I read that Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps eats an estimated 12,000 calories per day. Even with this large consumption of food, Phelps has a hard time gaining weight because of his intense training schedule and super metabolism. I remember those days when I could eat anything and not gain a pound. I didn’t gain my [...]

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Easy Reader

After watching the Dark Knight (best Batman movie ever), I felt compelled to Google Morgan Freeman. When the results came up, I was pleasantly surprised to see some videos of his character, “Easy Reader” from “The Electric Company.” For those of you too young to remember “The Electric Company,” it was an educational television show [...]

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The Cupcake Incident

As I mentioned in the previous post, we celebrated X’s birthday with cupcakes. Well, the next day, we decided to have the rest of the cupcakes for desert. My daughter, Nee, got a cupcake out of the container, but dropped it on the floor on the way to the table. I told her to throw [...]

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Go Shawty, It’s Your Birthday

I just celebrated my son’s first Birthday. We commemorated the occasion with party hats and cupcakes. I watched with fatherly pride as he two-fisted his cupcake into his mouth as icing covered nearly every part of his body. All I could think was “my baby is growing up.” My wife, K, and I never really [...]

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First Steps

I just witnessed my son’s taking his first steps. He stumbled and fell on the first few attempts. Then suddenly, he stood, balanced himself, and managed to wobble across the floor. As he walked and giggled, my heart filled with joy and trepidation. My son will take many more steps in his life. I will [...]

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Colors

Like many men, I am colorblind. Therefore, I’m always asking my wife and my daughter the color of things. Tonight, as I was separating the laundry, I asked my daughter if an item of clothing was white. “It’s pink, Daddy,” she replied with exasperation, “You should really learn your colors.” I guess it’s time to [...]

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E-Mail Hijacked

When I checked my e-mail this morning, I had a message from a friend asking if I had sent her a message about an opportunity in China. I had not and I was wondering why she was asking such a bizarre question. It turns out that someone hacked into my e-mail account and sent spam [...]

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The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Yesterday my wife and I took our daughter to her first day of second grade. She had been looking forward to this day for a long time and was very excited. After negotiating the first day of the car pool line, we managed to get into the school’s parking lot. As we searched for a [...]

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Sink or Swim

I’ve been watching the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing with great interest. I love seeing the athletes put everything on the line in order to win a gold medal for their countries. The athlete who has most intrigued me, though, has been Olympic swimmer Cullen Jones. He is the second African-American to make the US [...]

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Black Moses

Two days. Two deaths. First Bernie Mac, now Isaac Hayes. I consider myself to be a music connoisseur, however, I was quite embarrassed to realize that I knew very little of Isaac Hayes’ music beyond the them from “Shaft.” My iPod currently holds over 10,000 songs and there is nary an Isaac Hayes cut in [...]

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Till the White Meat Shows

America. Bernie Mac is dead. He died on Saturday, August 9, 2008 of complications from pneumonia. Mac is best known for his work on “The Bernie Mac Show.” In the sitcom, the professional comedian Bernie Mac and his wife, Wanda, take in his drug-addicted sister’s children: 5-year-old Bryana, 8-year-old Jordan and the headstrong 13-year-old Vanessa, [...]

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Learning to Love

My son, N, is so full of love that he cannot contain it. He is constantly giving kisses and monster hugs (much to the chagrin of his baby brother). His displays of affection make me smile, but they also make me want to protect him from those who would take advantage of his loving nature [...]

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Million Father March

Today, I read an article about an organization called The Black Star Project that is sponsoring the Million Father March 2008 on the first day of school in nearly 300 cities. Their goal is to encourage fathers to take an active role in their children’s education. At first I was skeptical about this idea because [...]

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