Time Square

IMG_7146.JPG Originally uploaded by Unbowed. I’m in NYC now on business. I’ll be holed up until Monday morning I think. If you’re around and want to holler…give me a ring. 410-948-2709. Life is good.

Mother's Day/Wedding Anniversary

Fourteen years ago today I married Shawn Mason. Five kids two states two degrees and two schools later, here we are. Before I got to the yard this morning I checked out Ebony Mom, because I saw she peeped her head in (myblog.com is the bomb!), and noticed that one of...

Halberstam and Yeltsin pass away

For those of you who’ve read me here and elsewhere, you know that when it comes to sports journalism, there is Ralph….and then there is everyone else. And given the background that many sports journalists of the generation before Ralph had? I’d trust...

"Had Cool like a Vault has money"

Ed Bradley died two days ago of leukemia. In writing about him, Wil Haygood used the quote I cite above. There’s a certain type of gaze that comes with living life as a black man. Unless you’re in a city like Detroit, there’s never a time you...