August 14, 2017entrepreneurship, music, provinggroundbook, technology Voices: Entrepreneur and engineer on what happens when your dream dies I HATE failure with a passion, but I must admit that I have experienced it. In fact, you could say that failure […] ShareRead more
February 9, 2017February 14, 2017entrepreneurship, gadgets, provinggroundbook, technology Will It Explode? (Part 2) In Part 1, I explained that my daughter Nadiyah and I were going to power up my very first personal computer, a […] ShareRead more
February 9, 2017February 9, 2017books, education, entrepreneurship, provinggroundbook, technology Black History Month is About MAKING History, Not Just Studying History As a young person coming of age in the 1960s, I learned a smattering of black history in school. We studied, however […] ShareRead more
January 16, 2017January 16, 2017BBUM, community, events, family, provinggroundbook, U-M Martin Luther King Day, 2017 On this Martin Luther King Day 2017, I can do no better than to reprise the remarks I delivered at the University of […] ShareRead more
January 16, 2017January 16, 2017entrepreneurship, family, gadgets, provinggroundbook, technology Will It Explode? (Part 1) In early 1983, thirty-four years ago, I got my first “serious” personal computer, a Heathkit H-89 all-in-one machine. I built it from scratch, […] ShareRead more
January 10, 2017January 16, 2017BBUM, books, community, education, entrepreneurship, events, provinggroundbook, scholarship, technology, U-M David Tarver to Speak at U-M College of Engineering 2016-01-12 ShareRead more
January 6, 2017January 16, 2017books, education, entrepreneurship, gadgets, provinggroundbook, technology Unexpected Reunion with a Mentor More than forty-five years ago, I began my college education at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in Flint, Michigan. This was […] ShareRead more
December 30, 2016January 3, 2017books, community, education, entrepreneurship, events, family, misc, music, provinggroundbook, travel, U-M 2016: A Personal Pictorial Review 2016: Another Year in the Can It is hard to find the words to describe all that has transpired in 2016. I […] ShareRead more
December 31, 2015January 1, 2016community, education, events, family, provinggroundbook, U-M 2015: A Year of Anniversaries 2015 was a year of anniversaries – some happy, some sad, some bittersweet. As each anniversary came and went this year, I […] ShareRead more
January 11, 2015January 11, 2015entrepreneurship, events, provinggroundbook, Uncategorized “Selma” brought back memories Saw the movie “Selma” last night. The events depicted formed the backdrop of my childhood, as I watched them unfold from the […] ShareRead more
