CultureSo When You're Riding Through The Rocks...By Ta-Nehisi CoatesJanuary 20, 2010 ShareSave Well we have a thread below for our collective moaning section. It's essential. But not worth wallowing in. Can't say the same about Bob. Whenever I hear this I think of my parents riding up to New York, while my Mom was pregnant with me, to see Bob play in Central Park. Let's not decide to be miserable guys. Seriously. All together now...About the AuthorTa-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction.