The "Old Block" Tells All.

  In retrospect, I should have stayed in the military service for 20 years, gone to college for 2 years, then worked for the Post Office for 20 years! I would have retired at the tender age of 61! If life served me the same with this new path, I would have been retired for 4 years before my health declined and ended in a coma from a DVT/PE! (Basically, a life-threatening blood clot that stopped my heart, and ended my breathing rights.) For a few minutes, the Earth had more air to breathe and one less senior citizen in the US census! But, to my joy, the woman I married, Dr. Lin, and my Heavenly Father had other plans! While I was an unwilling and uninvited visitor of another dimension, several dozen people visited my hospital bedside, claiming to be family. The medical staff was baffled as to why my lineage includes African, Asian, Hispanic, and European bloodlines! Work, school, neighborhood, and other sources comprised my “family” and poured in from all avenues! (Somebody love...

  Look what just pulled into my parking lot today! (No, just kidding!) The phone rang and there was a commotion in the background, (I could barely hear who was calling). The voices of giddy young women rang out with “OOH’s” and “AHH’s” ensuing. It was my “Brother From Another Mother”, Clifton C.E. W., and he had drawn a crowd of female admirers by merely parking outside my apartment. No, he is not a player, (anymore). No, he was not driving one of his fancy sports cars this time. He was just passing through on his way to San Diego, California! Here is what really pulled into my parking lot… And here is who got out, and caused the chorus of “Ooh’s” and “AHH’s”! Was it his classic “boyish” good looks that sparked the furious fuss or something sweet and tasty? The world will never know, but you are welcome to guess. Clifton has always been the flamboyant, romantic in our group of “BFAMs”. He always had the looks, cars, clothes, and smooth poetic words that magnetically att...