Smelling the Roses

My official vacation started mid week, making my way to the Big Apple.  The film is done, the script is not quite ‘done’ but in a draft I could live with; my normal distractions weren’t around.  It was more than a little scary to me to acknowledge how much stress I put on myself on a daily, sometimes […]

Relationships

A few of the guys came by my pad for Super Bowl Sunday.  Through sheer luck of the draw, they each symbolized a different aspect of my personality; one of my ‘Hollywood’ friends, one of the Muskeeteers (my clubbing partner in crime), and one of my frat brothers.  I was reminded of an analogy another […]

The Divine Nine

  Today is the anniversary or “Founders Day” of Alpha Phi Alpha, one of the historically black Greek letter organizations.  Through pure coincidence, I talked to both of my line brothers yesterday.  I became an Alpha Man (cough, cough) years ago, and went through the entire undergraduate experience: the ‘neo’ semester, the party walking, the […]