ERASING FAMILY investigates family bond obstruction from multiple perspectives: Children whose moms or dads have been erased from their lives and siblings who can’t see each other. Part emotional roller coaster, part investigative expose, we follow the money to expose why loving moms and dads are erased from their kid’s lives by divorce courts….
Read moreThe New Normal – Shared Parenting
Why must kids miss out on certain family relationships when parents divorce or separate? It’s cruel to have children, who on one day have both parents in their lives on a regular basis suddenly lose access to everything they knew, then relegate the other parent to become a visitor. There are several reasons for this…
Read moreNine Years
2010 vs 2019. We found the time to recreate the photo I took while we were on the hayride back in 2010. The last time I took my kids to Rocky Acre Farm was 9 years ago. A lot has changed over those years. I was a newly minted single father and was figuring out…
Read moreSTILL THE MOST IGNORED DEMOGRAPHIC: SINGLE, BLACK FATHERS
You know how many deadbeat dads I know? NONE! ZERO!! Every “single father” I know is just like me. Every one. If you know anything about me, you know what that means. If you don’t know, look me up on the internet. All of us got screwed by the family court system in one way…
Read moreBitter Much?
When people make comments online from time to time about men being bitter about their ex, I wonder how these people would feel if they were on the short end of the divorce stick. How would these people feel if they spent thousands of dollars battling the sub-humans in family court just for the right…
Read moreDAMN
Seriously…if you didn’t know who was rapping on this album, would you say this is an amazing record? I don’t know… I am still trying, but just should admit that rap and I had a 14 year love affair and are finally officially getting divorced. I was hanging in and thinking that it would be…
Read moreFathers Matter
Too Little-Too Late
I woke up a few days ago to a tweet from Paul Elam linking an article on his site “A voice For Men.” It was called A Father’s Lament. I have been reading A Voice For Men for years. I stopped over the past few because I haven’t found the information useful at this point…
Read moreSingle Fatherhood in New York City
Back in 2012, I completed an interview for a Columbia University graduate student of journalism named Acacia Squires. She found me through a post I made on a website about single parenthood and thought I would be a good person to talk with about my experiences being a single father in New York City. I…
Read moreWhy I REFUSE To Pay Child Support
When people ask me how can I be divorced with two children and pay no child support, I tell them I took a cue from Nancy Reagan; I “just said no.” I took the road less traveled. For the past twenty years, I’ve been fortunate to be a full-time musician. Since our daughter’s birth in…
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