Tag: Toni Braxton

High School

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I have a few rubbish rules that serve no greater purpose in the grand scheme of things rather than help me steer my manhood to a greater, and more elusive, harbor. For instance, I don’t meet guys for coffee. …

Alley tales

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Lust smells. But when lust blends with desperation, it stinks like a hyena’s carcass. Here is how bad it smells. Once in a while my boy Kwame and I will end up at Sailors bar in Hurligham for a …

“We sing, we dance, we steal things.”

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Let’s call him Patrick. Patrick works and lives in Minnesota. Green card and all that jazz. Last time he was in Kenya was 9 years ago. Patrick and I grew up in the same neighborhood- a couple of gates …

Oh, Toni!

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On Judgment Day when I stand before the Lord and he asks me what I regret most about my life, I will tell him, “Not meeting Toni Braxton.”

I can almost see the eternal cynic, Ben, rolling his eyes. …

Coast, a people

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Coast-o

I was down at the coast over the weekend and this picture perhaps defines coast for me. It’s the endlessness of bliss, an infinite happiness. And happiness for me are boats like this that bob in the slight …