We spend 8 hours a day at work, at least an hour getting ready for work and an hour in traffic to/from work. That's 11 hours every weekday spent doing work related things. With 24 hours in a day and 8 of those hours we're sleep, that gives us about 5 hours a day to…
Moving to a new city is stressful, even more so when you do it alone. I've heard people say "you can reinvent yourself" or "you get a clean slate" but for me, I want to be the same person wherever I go. To me, having a clean slate means having to start all over again…
Continue reading ➞ The joys and pains of moving to a new city alone
In a city full of 1,626,078 people only 108,846 are Black or African American. In the county, Maricopa, where all major cities including Phoenix settle in there's 4.24 million people and only 221,266 are Black or African American. I spent 30 years of my life growing up in Atlanta, a city that's full of 486,290…
Continue reading ➞ How being black in Phoenix made me love my culture more
Originally from Atlanta I recently moved from "Tha A" to North Carolina, now I'm living in Phoenix, Arizona. Here are some tips I have if you plan to move across the country. 1. Get your credit score up. When I moved to North Carolina in 2015 it was similar to living in Georgia.…
Never be afraid to ravel alone. I mean, travel alone.
If you don’t know it by now, social media is a beast. It has the potential to make you, like James Wright the viral Patti Pie eating singer: And the potential to break you, like Belle Gibson who “lost everything” after she went viral for posing as a cancer survivor to get money: People have…
Continue reading ➞ The power of Social Media: How Twitter fixed my worst Uber ride
