My little man and I played ball in the park today for a while by ourselves. I was showing him how to keep moving on the court, how to cut to the basket and a few more basketball fundamentals. I’m not a coach and never played past the 8th grade but I’ve played a few…
Read more8 Years A Boyfriend
8 years ago, I met Bryn Johnson. I was in the middle of a highly successful run of my first broadway show, I had a little money in the bank, I was newly single after surviving a bitter divorce. I was having the time of my life on the dating scene in New York City….
Read moreGame Night!
We’ve been having a post-thanksgiving game night with our kids for the last few years. It started out when my high school friend Larisa invited me and my family over the day after Thanksgiving. Back then, we just hung out, had some food, talked and our kids, how it sometimes sucks getting old…and we just…
Read moreTrombone Shorty joins a ‘second line’ in New Orleans’ Treme neighborhood
I love this music:
Read moreIt took long enough!!!
After a few years of playing in this band, I finally played a gig where people actually understood what the hell we were laying on them. The Street Beat Brass Band played a surprise 50th birthday party in Montclair, NJ last night. We started at one home, went out in the snow and had a…
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 moreRun- D.M.C. – The Ritz NYC 1985
What a time for rap music. It was the end of the “old school” and the beginning of the golden age of rap music. Run-D.M.C. were one of the pioneers of the “New School” with cuts like Sucker MCs. It was nothing but a beat and rhymes. They took out all of the music and…
Read moreBonding
When I walk down the street with my daughter from time to time, she does something that I find very interesting. Instead of holding my hand like she used to as a little girl, she grabs the inside of my forearm as if I am walking her down the aisle in a wedding ceremony. Some people have…
Read moreBecause I’m a DADDY!
2014 FATHER’S DAY ANTHEM “I’M A DADDY” INSPIRED BY PHARELL’S ‘HAPPY’!
Read moreCaptive Audience
Every morning when I pick up my kids from my ex-wife at 7:15AM, my kids get in the car, we say hello to each other and are on our way to school. We don’t get very far if there is no music coming from the speakers. My son or daughter will speak up and demand…
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