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Click here to check out the rest of the series. When I started this series, I was worried that by writing it I would come off as an innocent bystander who had no fault in how things progressed and ultimately ended. I definitely shouldered my fair share of deceitfulness, stubbornness and spitefulness. I didn’t include those [...]
Click here to check out the rest of the series. The next three months were a blur of fights and arguments. I became numb to a lot of the bullsh*t. I looked back at a lot of things I put up with and got progressively angrier. In hindsight, I should have just left her alone [...]
Click here for the other parts of the series. After we got back together things were going strong for a good four months before we began to hit rough patches. I can’t remember exactly what caused this particular argument, but we were mad at each other for a couple days. The fact that I can’t [...]
A few days ago, boobookins and I were sittin’ on the couch with laptops in laps. We don’t stare at each other’s screens, but it was obvious we were both on Facebook. I was checking up on a few folks I hadn’t heard from since the storm. She was lookin’ at pictures of children [...]
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On Saturday October 27th, I was gearing up for a normal weekend. I had a birthday coming up on that Sunday, along with a Nike Football Society flag football game. Halloween parties were the norm this weekend, and everyone looked forward to a weekend filled with costumes and debauchery. Embedded in the backs of all [...]
With it being November 1st, I wanted to take a moment — well, a post — to reflect on the month of October, which was the greatest month in SBM history. But before I get to that, we want to thank the SBM readers, both new and tenured, for helping make this site what [...]
I can only describe this man as everything I ever wanted. Most people say, “everything I wanted in a man” or “everything I wanted in my life” but that would not have captured exactly how I felt about him. We met in my freshman year of college. He would wait outside of my last class [...]
SBM has decided to become an official sponsor/partner of the Ray of Hope Walk coming up on October 28th, 2012. SBM feels that in addition to providing content on the urban male perspective to our readers via our website and events, it’s important to have an imprint in our community. We are excited to work with an [...]
**Chillin’ all comfortably and sh*t.** Me: I got nominated for Blogger of the Year by the African American Literary Awards Show (Q14). Her: Yayyy! It’ll be great if you win! *pompom type action* Me: I’m not gonna win though. Did you see the other names in my category? Do you remember how much I struggled with that last award show [...]
“I’m not giving you money.” It’s crazy how many times I say this a day living in a city like New York — more specifically in Harlem. Around just about every corner in neighborhoods with people that look like me is someone jockeying for change, professionally panhandling and asking for whatever I have in my [...]
