Editor’s Note:  My thought process here is that should I be eventually found severely beaten and locked in a trunk because of something sarcastic I wrote or said, this will be the blurb that news outlets use in their stories.  That would be awesome.  The news outlet part, not the beaten and locked in a trunk part.  That, I imagine, would suck.

I’m notoriously bad at writing about myself.  Let’s keep it autobiographical:  Hi!  I’m Jason Rashaad: lifelong Detroiter, graduate of Martin Luther King, Jr. Senior High School, proud alumnus of Wayne State University, and current MBA student at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business.  Professionally I’ve worked in Information Technology for more than eleven years, and I currently work as a consultant, a position that brought me from Detroit to Maryland back in March of 2009.

Anytime you’ve lived your entire life within 50 miles of the place you were born, moving 500 miles away is an adjustment.  To say the least.  But we do what we must.  Opportunity seems to grow on trees out here and I’d be doing myself a disservice if I didn’t take advantage.  Should be an interesting ride.

The title of this blog comes from Psalms 118:22: “The stone which the builders refused is become the headstone of the corner.” This has its roots in ancient masonry, specifically with regards to the building of the First Temple. The rough, misshapen stone was discarded as inadequate for the building of the pillars, which required perfect, smoothly shaped stones. This stone later became the keystone, in that its shape and quality was perfect for completing the arch and thereby the temple.