At A Moments Notice...

1. Celebrating the news my book was the #2 best seller of 2004 at Outwrite Books in Atanta, Georgia. And learning they displayed mine over the #1 spot! Can you say cheese? A brother is smiling bright and wide! Thank you Atlanta!

2. Knee deep into what will become my second novel and loving every friggin’ moment of it! I’m amazed at my ability to get caught up in my own little world. The characters are addictive and real and complicated and human and honest. I actually told someone the other day this is probably the best thing to come out of me. Word.

3. Re-thinking and re-doing the marketing plan of my first novel “I’m On My Way” now that it is officially under my own publishing company, which is kind of fun. It’s kind of amazing how many new ideas can spring from an old well.

4. Preparing to spend the weekend upstate New York at this year’s Winter Explosion. Last year was a lot of fun. Hopefully this year will be too.

5. Getting the final pieces together for a play I will produce this year. It was written by an up and coming playwright who will undoubtedly change the game. More on that later, including a casting call.

6. Planning my birthday party. Though I haven’t officially put together a guest list or an invite I have a feeling this year’s jump-off will be one to remember. I'm feeling a warm personal vibe this year...

7. Taking a volley ball class—don’t ask, just know it’s actually kind of fun.

8. Loving my Dell Digital Jukebox! Who would have thought music could consume me again? MP3 players rule!

9. Trying to figure out how I can live without the titles people love placing on each other, which is a difficult task at best. Still I am determined to find a way.

10. Seriously wondering if I can stomach attending church after almost six years of exile with all the anti-homosexual rhetoric going on nowadays. Part of me seriously wants the fellowship but then I just know the moment some bullshit exits the mouth of a less than perfect human propped up on a plastic soap box, I’m going to flip.

11. Falling in love with Alicia Keys and her hypnotic single If I Ain’t Got You. (Wasn't her Grammy performance off the friggin' chain?) Shit, I could write a whole novel just listening to that song. Couldn’t you?

12. Believe it or not, I have begun to leave my armored shelter. I’ve actually reached out to friends I haven’t spoken to in a month of Sundays and re-established possible friendships. After all love is an action word right?

13. Trying not to let the idea that Black History Month is a ruse get me down. Is it me or do the advertisers celebrate it the very first week and like many Black folks chuck it to the side the very next?