“We are!” “INDY!” “We are!” “INDY!” Omar Rashan’s friends cheered him on as he accepted the Best of Show award at Flava Fresh XIV, at the College Avenue Branch of the Indianapolis Public Library. His friend and colleague, Latoya Marlin, […]
I’d never killed off an organization before. I’ve written a lot over the last two months about it, for various purposes. Press releases, statements, questions needing answered; “What happened?” This whole time it felt like this was what needed to […]
Every year, since 2014, Kewanee has gathered and danced. Usually, it’s strangers strangers dancing together. The idea originally stemmed from the wave of “Happy” video parodies; Pharrell Williams wrote a song that made people smile, and everyone one from Tehran, […]
It was just another Sunday at Roberts Park First United Methodist Church in Indianapolis. Sunday morning church services had wrapped up and lunch had been served. It was time to bless some animals. I’d gotten my pets blessed over the […]
On September 16th, I’ll participate in the Art Squared event Masterpiece In A Day (MIAD), a six-hour long art competition as part of a larger festival. I have to start from scratch and finish my painting by 3pm. I look […]
I feel like I taped my eyelids open for five days straight and stared at cable news. In reality, I binge-read about a year’s worth of Captain America–both Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers. After 25 years of comic book consumption, […]
This is the first post of the blog feature I’m adding to this site. Fancy, right? Really, this post is more about making sure I can see the blog when I rearrange some features on the website, so consider this […]