Category: Family

My Son, The Actor: Two Monolgues

My son Excel has been engaged in various summer theater camps, acting symposiums and several high school stage productions at Wilson High School in Northwest, DC. He’s also an important employee at Park Triangle Productions. His behind the camera set experience has allowed him to […]

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Truth Gets Her 3rd DAN in Taekwondo (10/12/2019)

Truth tested for her third DAN as a black belt in Taekwondo and I’m so proud of her. She started this journey at 4 years old. The head the the school noticed Truth doing the moves in the seated area of the class when she […]

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Growth: The Woods Family Height Chart (8/2020)

The family height chart was originally in the “den” which in 2005 became Truth’s room. The walls were purple and pink for a few years and the chart was redrawn… then Truth wanted her walls painted again (she hated purple and pink), so we had […]

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Excel Graduates from High School (6/2019)

I remember holding him in my arms like it was yesterday. The way space and time forms in our mind is such a phenomenon. When I hear his voice, even though I know it’s kinda deep these days, it sounds like a symphony of all […]

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Photoshoot: Erica Woods (2015)

Erica was “jumping ship” from the nine-to-five (seven-to-seven) at the World Wildlife Fund and joining me on this crazy boat we call Park Triangle Productions. She needed a headshot and some basic photos so folks would know who the new person in the company was. […]

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Meeting Raekwon and Ghostface (8/2015)

It was the 20th anniversary of the The Purple Tape – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. In my mind, The Purple Tape is greatest set of recordings known to man. I wanted to write that, in all its hyperbole because… well, I could. It honestly rests in […]

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Sketches of Excel (2004)

Found this sheet of random emotive sketches of Excel I did in 2004. More of the same wasting of time but doing something meaningful. I swear I won’t put all my random sketches on this blog/site thing. There’d be thousands of entries no one would […]

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Snow Day Activities (2/14/2014)

It snowed so much the night before in DC, that they cancelled school. For some reason, I was of the mind that they should not “waste” this snow day doing things that the gravity of boredom might bring them to do (video games, endless cable […]

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August 1987: New Home. New Outlook.

Are this Bugle Boy jeans that you’re wearing? Why yes, they most certainly are (were). Standing in front of my father’s Grand Prix, Gerald and I posed for a picture. We had just left our house on Bessica street and moved a ways up the […]

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Erica’s Lullaby on The Angle

Erica had written a lullaby for our son Excel when he was a baby. I pushed Erica to perform for us a cappella and I’m glad she did. We were in Pittsburgh at my mother’s office with our white screen set up and an open […]

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