Of all the ways we expected the James Harden era to end in Houston — if one ever expected it to end AT ALL — this wasn’t one of them. On Wednesday afternoon, just hours after the Houston Rockets suffered a second consecutive loss to the Los Angeles LeBrons, I’m…

As relaxing as it had been, her time was up. She rose up from the water, the droplets trickling and trailing down the curves of her body, and reached over for the towel that she had laid next to her ivory tub. She patted herself down slowly, meticulously even, drying…

There are 60 seconds in a minute. There are 60 minutes in a hour. There are 24 hours in a day. There are 7 days in week. 52 weeks in a year. It’s become pretty popular now to say something along the lines of “We all have the same 24…

Some things are bigger than you. — I wanted to write a thinkpiece about “Song 33,” the recent single from emcee Noname that many are pegging a response to J. Cole (though it could very simply be a message to Black men in general). “Song 33”comes on the heels of the North Carolina artist releasing “Snow…

One of my favorite poems of all time is Rudyard Kipling’s “If.” I appreciate it because it keeps things in perspective and reminds people of how to properly move and make moves in life. There are so many quotables within that poem — “If you can trust yourself when all…

Once upon a time, I got mad at you. I got mad at you for being mad at me. You were mad at me, like you tended to be, simply because we didn’t share the same opinion. The same approach to things. I have learned to navigate a number of…