When Street Articles Rejected My First Article, I Thanked Them
Perhaps I should have ask myself this question before joining Street Articles. "Why am I here?" I join Street Articles so I could write freely and meet new people. I'm not here trying to become an...
View ArticleDwayne Wade on Relationships
Ask any couple what their two biggest needs are and they might say having someone supportive to communicate with and someone who make them feel worthy. Problems in relationships don't usually attack...
View ArticleHow to Help Your Loved Ones Recover And Stop Acting Out
I'm not an addiction counselor but I did go to school for education on using and acting out. I can tell you everything a person addicted to anything, think, feel, and want. This knowledge didn't come...
View ArticleHow To Stop Being Jealous Of The Other Grandparent
My children remind me often how I let my grand babies get away with things they wouldn't be able to think about doing. I just laugh and tell them they don't understand. We grandparents are wired...
View ArticleListening Is The Solution To The Problem Adrien Broner
What I witness the other night watching the Broner vs Maidana fight was what I would describe as embarrassing. When I think of all the boxers who have come out of Cincinnati I can't think of one who...
View Article30 In 30 Challenge - Week 2
I learned early in life that things don't always go as planned. Week two of the 30 in 30 challenge would be no different. To me when life show up I must be ready to go even if I don't get to go. When...
View ArticleBar Wasn't Just A Dog; Bar Was Human ( Take 1)
I remember when I saw my first Rottweiler. The year was 1987 I was coming home from my security job and rather tired. As I crossed our street on Prospect Place my new neighbor, who wore dreadlocks,...
View ArticleRelationships Are Designed To Help Us Grow
One of the most important things to God is relationships. The relationship we have with Him, ourselves and others. They are design to teach us how to love and to help us grow. But because we are...
View ArticleThe Quest For Healthier Beliefs
As a child one thing my folks were consistent in saying was wait until you're older, then you'll understand life. I didn't understand life then and I don't understand life now. I was like most...
View ArticleBeyond Football
One of the best ways for men to protect themselves from themselves is being accountable to one another. Men need someone who is uplifting and encouraging, but will stand firm if he know you are wrong....
View ArticleThis Season It Will Be Hard To Knock The Cincinnati Bengals
When was the last time you heard the NFL sports announcers speak highly of the Cincinnati Bengals? Never. From ESPN to FOX Sports, football fans have high expectations for this year Bengals. Not like...
View ArticleBar Wasn't Just A Dog; Bar Was Human ( Take 2)
I enter our local library on Reading Road and I was happy to get started on my research. I walk over to the card catalog searching for Rottweiler. "Rooo...Rot....wei...ler..." I said to myself as I...
View ArticleThe Fight To Do What's Right ( The Flesh Vs The Spirit ) Rounds 2 And 3
(ding...ding...) ROUND TWO! Commentator 2: Contrary to what many people believe Bill about what The Spirit can do for them, every person I've talked to about letting him into their lives said it is...
View ArticleThe Stickman ( His Legs)
I grew up during the times when outside was a big playground. Trees, old mattresses, even playing with a can had the potential of being more fun than playing with a toy I had received for Christmas....
View Article12 Years A Slave Make Me Feel Some Type Of Way
I didn't do too good after my first time watching Roots. I remember feeling anger, rage, and sadness. Mostly I remember the feeling of revenge. I walked around Avondale telling all my friends we have...
View ArticleColumbian Elementary Home Of the Three Musketeers Plus One
Surrounded by Melish Ave., Reading Road, and Harvey, Columbian Elementary stood boldly and content daring students to enter at their own risk. Everyone who enters the school would leave a different...
View ArticleI Almost Lost My Life, To Save A Dime ( Final Part)
I laid face-down on the ground motionlessly. After several attempts I was able to get my right eye open. It wouldn't focus. I had broken glass and pebbles enmeshed into my face. My left forehead was...
View ArticleHow to Be A Christian Man Of Integrity
I never seen myself becoming a Christian because I grew up watching too many Christian go to church faithfully on Sunday then act a fool on Monday. I have witness so-called Christian using God and...
View ArticleThe Seattle Seahawks Will Win Superbowl Xlviii And Here's Why
The stage is set for what some predict being one of the best Super Bowls in Super Bowl history. The league's No. 1 ranked offense against the league's No.1 ranked defense. With future Hall of Fame...
View ArticleThe Best Two 2014 Super Bowl Commerials
To say Denver lost Super Bowl XLVIII would be an understatement. Seattle not only embarrassed them, they left them seasick. The first snap of the game turned into a safety and two points for the...
View ArticleThe Hidden And Elusive Purpose Of Black History Month
February is Black History Month, a time when our country pay tribute to African-American by celebrating how Blacks played a vivid role in development of our country. This month children in schools not...
View ArticleMy Path To Godly Wisdom; My Experience
Asking God to help me was the spiritual principle that saved my life. I was caught up in catering to myself and it was hard for me to recognize my foolishness. Not liking what I had become, I tried...
View ArticleThe War On Our Fears
Our spirit is there to aid us. Its power dwells inside each of us waiting to help us make the right decision regardless of how we feel or what we think, but because it's the right thing and Godly...
View ArticleMake 2014 The Year You Slow Down And Rest
The end of the year is here. It's that time of the year when we're determined that next year will be better for us so we prepare our minds on being more productive. Some plan to go back to school...
View ArticleHow To Commit to Your Priorties
If I could go back and change anything in my life it would be my commitments. I know now where I spent majority of my time told my love ones what was important to me and what I'm committed to. I...
View ArticleHow I Learned How to Listen to My Wife
It was a long trip back to the couch. Importance of listening to my wife hasn't come clear to me so I would need time to reflect. Nicole felt if I had enough time to myself I could find out what...
View ArticleWhat Do I Do When I'm Married But Spiritually I'm Single?
Marriage is a special gift from God. My wife is in my life only by God's grace and goodness. I understand that today. Everyday I sense His present all around me working through my wife whether it's...
View ArticleI Almost Lost My Life, To Save A Dime (part 1)
I was sitting on the church wall on "Short Blair" (counting all the change I had to ante up on a forty), when I observed ants running to and from a small chicken bone that someone had left on the...
View ArticleKnockout Game A Sign Of The Last Days
In the last days people will be lovers of themselves, proud, arrogant, abusive, heartless, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. God tell us...
View ArticleHoney Do I Look Fat In This Dress?
Men how would you characterize you and your wife's communication about her weight? Is it one of those subject you try your best to avoid? When Nicole first asked, "Honey do I look fat in this dress?"...
View ArticleNever Go Up Stairs Without Adult Supervision
Freedom to choose is dangerous because there's consequences from making a bad choice or not making a choice at all. Most people don't make good decisions on the regular. Now if you're the kind of...
View ArticleThat Moment When You Realize You're Getting Older
The doctor backed away just from examining the strength of my eyes by watching me move them from left to right, following his pen. When he returned he had me cover my left eye then he asked me to read...
View ArticleThe Fight To Do What's Right ( The Flesh Vs The Spirit) Walk With God Boxing
After visiting Jane's house. Bill and Bob entered their office at "Walk with God Boxing" to fill out their paperwork. Although Jane showed improvement Bill was more concerned about Cliff. Bob could...
View ArticleWhy Men Don't Stop And Ask For Directions
Every woman want to know why men don't stop and ask for directions, not once thinking it could be a matter of perception. Just because we drive around desperately trying to figure out how we're going...
View ArticleThe Stickman ( His Body)
I should have known following behind my brother and his best friend Bodie wouldn't be a good idea but I followed them anyway making sure to stay a safe distance behind. Keith told me to go back home...
View ArticleFour Steps You Can Take To Improve The Soil Of Your Spiritual Life
I will be the first to admit, I don't know the first thing about taking care of a house plant. Plant lovers, like my sister Gale, use to say there's more to it than most people would think. She...
View ArticleThe Fight to Do What's Right ( The Flesh vs The Spirit) Visiting Jane's House
Spiritual fights are for three rounds at a time. After that, the commentators pay the challenger a surprise visit at their home. This is to see if The Spirit is actually starting to live inside the...
View ArticleThe Fight to Do What's Right ( The Flesh Vs The Spirit) Round 4
After dropping Catie and Jason off at the sitter's house, Cliff and Heather drove north up I-75 to Walk With God Boxing to see Jane's fight. The old worn-out wiper blades on Cliff's 1980 Concord...
View ArticleGod You Was Wrong For This One
We all have experienced being accused or mistreated for no reason. I believe it's harder on Christians because we take pride in doing what's right and God's will. Whether we admitted it or not we...
View ArticleMaya Angelou Survived By Courage And Grace
Maya Angelou knew how to survive. Raped at the tender age of seven by her mother's boyfriend, Maya had the courage to testified against her offender. Shortly after being arrested he was tried and...
View Article5 Character Flaws That Kills Your Spiritual Growth
Other people's behaviors can have an effect on us and lure us away from our spiritual being. With our dysfunctional beliefs it's easy for us to point out the faults in others, but unaware of those...
View ArticleThe Stickman ( His Head)
Their favorite source of humor was me, in particular, my head. It was perfectly round and sat on top of my small skinny body with patient hoping one day my body would grow into it. Its main job was to...
View ArticleDon't Blame Facebook for Your Divorce Or Breakup
Facebook; you have to love it. Most people experience such a covenant bond with it that it indicate quality of their relationships. I have seen relationship status go from single to "in a...
View ArticleLead By An Inward Witness
Everyone has the privilege of free-will. The ability to choose is a choice between life and death. I have always believed that our circumstances isn't our problem as much as the way we respond to them...
View ArticleHughes Vs Woodward 1984: The Shot
"Steve Ivery drives left and lays it up with only eight seconds left in the game," said Tony. "That put Hughes up by three," declared Jeff wearing his Hughes class of 81' t-shirt. "Woodward takes the...
View ArticleA Place Of Great Opportunity
Powerless. A word that has hidden opportunity and the ability to change lives for the better. When a person is in a powerless state they no longer need to figure things out. They can give their...
View ArticleThe Forbidden Fruit: The Thought Life
For most people their best thinking got them into trouble. A want that manifest itself into a demand. This demand isn't always sinful sometimes it's a normal desire like the desire of being loved or...
View ArticleThe Fight to Do What's Right ( The Flesh Vs The Spirit ) Round 1
(ding....ding....ding) Announcer : Welcome everybody to our main event! We're scheduled for fifteen rounds of boxing! Introducing all the way from Cincinnati Ohio fighting out of the blue corner we...
View ArticleI Almost Lost My Life, To Save A Dime (Part 2)
The sun began to slowly set behind St Andrew Catholic Church and its twilight sky gave Blair an innocent look. Still that didn't prevent the Big Bird from hovering the sky keeping our street under...
View ArticleWe Share A Common Bond (lunch at Kfc)
Tasha always looked for warning signs in a man. Even a quick thirty minute lunch date at the corner KFC is more than enough time to tell her about a man. Is he late? Does he constantly glance at his...
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