In my mind
On an episode of my favourite podcast, the host Joe Budden introduced a segment I thought was both insightful and hilarious. He called it “Cape Town.” The premise of “Cape Town” is to introduce a topic/subject/person that one of his co-hosts would “cape” for. What does “caping” for someone mean? Well, it’s attempting to save…
It was the early hours of January 1, 2018. I had just gotten back from Cameroon, and I was at the airport waiting for my bag, looking down at my phone. Because it was quite late, the airport was empty, which was a new, but welcome sensation. Then I felt someone approach me, I looked…
I’ve missed you 🙂 How have you been? I hope you’ve been well (as can be), considering the chaos the year 2020 has been thus far. So last year in April, this very blog that I’m writing on again (finally), suddenly stopped working. No web browser that I tried would load the page, even though…
You need a swift kick in the butt. A foot in your a** or a slap on your face, your choice. You need those things to wake you up, so you can re-focus and get back on track to whatever endeavour you are trying to accomplish. Sometimes, actually almost all the time from what I…
Happy Black History Month. I always appreciate this time of the year, a time of celebration of black culture/pop culture and history. For this month more than any other (though we should do this on a daily basis), we have to remind ourselves of who we are and what we’re worth. I had a conversation…