Joe Patterson
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Hi I'm Joe Patterson. I am a writer at heart who is a big geek for film, music, and literature, which have all inspired me to be a writer. I rap, write stories both short and long, and I'm also aspiring to be an author and a filmmaker.
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Music of Life: Childhood
From the day I was born music has been the soundtrack to my life. Music is not only the stories of my favorite artist, but the stories of my life’s most defining moments. Some of the greatest and earliest are the songs that were the soundtrack to my childhood. If I had to list the entire soundtrack to my life as a kid I’d be writing forever, so instead, I’ll just list a few of the songs that tell the story of how my younger life was shaped.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Confessions
Rudy Lee: Code Name “The Cool Mom”
When I was atleast 10 years old I could honestly guess that my older sister Rudy would have been a good mother, she was in training for it for a long time. What I could not have guessed is that she would actually BE a mother. So 20 years later, here she is and per her own account, she is known as Rudy Lee: The Cool Mom.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Confessions
Peggy or Not (Here she comes)
So what do you get when a tall southern white lady from the country decides to adopt a sassy black kid from the inner city? Well, if we’re being technical you have the movie The Blindside with Sandra Bullock and a height role reversal, but if we’re being literal you have the mother who adopted me, Nicole Moore Macon.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Confessions
Clear as Christal
Imagine this: you’re a young dude who ends up getting a job at Bojangles in early 2016. One of the stern, but kind assistant managers who works there seems mean at first given how stern she is, but within six months, dozens of crazy coworkers and a million and one customers later, she calls you her son. I don’t have to imagine this because it actually happened. The son in the story is me and the mother is Christal Hylton, the mother who adopted me at work.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Confessions
Church Moms
I have been going to church my entire life. I haven’t always been dedicated to every Sunday like I feel I should be, but I would say I’ve served an acceptable amount of time at the pew. In all the time I’ve spent at church I gained many of what people would refer to as church mothers. These type of mothers are near and dear to my heart because my faith and my relationship with God are very important to me and a great church mother has always helped me stay grounded in these principles even when I got lost or started backsliding.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Journal
Teacher Moms
When we think about the teachers of the world of course the obvious things that come to mind are educators and craftspeople of the world’s future leaders and creators, but if we’re being perfectly honest, we can really call teachers secondary parents. When we send our children off to school while we go about our daily adult lives we are leaving them in the care of adults who are responsible for teaching them, feeding them, making sure they go to the restroom and even disciplining them when they are up to no good. So it is safe to say that the women who carry this responsibility are motherly teachers.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Journal
The Graduate
”Hello. I’ve waited here for you…everlong” - Foo Fighters (Everlong). In late January of 2016 I went to a job interview at the restaurant Bojangles which was about a five to seven minute drive from my house. I really needed this job because I was flat broke and had been out of school for six months due to problems with my financial aid. I lived with my dad and I was struggling so bad that I had to walk 45 minutes to this interview because I didn’t have a car. When I made it there the supervisor who was interviewing me asked me what were my life plans while working at Bojangles and I told him that my plans were to save up enough money to buy a car, get back in school, and graduate so that I could earned a degree. I successfully was hired. It took some doing, but after a short couple of years I finally earned my degree, this is my journey.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Journal
Classmate Moms. Top Story - May 2023.
When you’re a little kid in school many thoughts come to mind about your fellow classmates. You think so-and-so is your best friend, maybe your worst enemy. Maybe they’re very good on the blacktop playing basketball or they’re the fastest runner on the track during gym class. One thing you never think about until you get older is the fact that these classmates will one day grow up and become parents. Yes, one day your fellow toddlers and teenagers are going to have kids of their own who will follow in the footsteps of their youthful decadence.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Journal
Classic Music Albums: 2pacalypse Now
As a roadie for the Hip Hop superstar act known as Digital Underground in the early 90’s, Tupac Shakur was looking to branch out on his own and make his first solo album. Having been entrenched in the newly vibrant world of Hip Hop and coming from a militant Black Panther family background, Tupac Shakur’s first album would come in the form of 2pacalypse Now.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Journal
