Granted, I have seen Chinese buffets collecting a standard fee at a front counter BEFORE you eat, but there was an exotic fish swimming in a tank next to the counter, and no fast food joint has a fish tank.

What does that mean, someone is dying? By the logic of calling a living person “dying”, we may as well all be described as dying starting from our first breaths.

Two important milestones occurred yesterday in my four-year-old’s development.

Why in the world did you just answer your cell phone, only to tell the person “I’m busy and I’ll call you right back”? Look, I can tell you have SOME couth because you are not one of those sociopaths who tries to shoulder-operate a cell phone and tong the green olives simultaneously. But why mess with your phone at all in that moment?

If the facts about my life give me any platform to render judgment, hear me when I testify that Barack Obama spoke the truth about race yesterday like no politician ever has. He made it so plain and direct. As he visited the impact of race throughout the generations, I felt he was talking about individuals I know. He gave voice to their perspectives, bringing together the bits and pieces people in my life have shared with me into a brilliant whole.