I was in New Orleans for a wedding and noticed the blue bikes just like in New York, D.C. and the University of Virginia. It was a family vacation, and since i ended up biking a lot in the last couple of days out there, it naturally became a part of the conversation. My aunt and uncle asked ...

Yesterday morning, looking in the mirror made me wish I could cut my own hair. See, this wasn’t always a thing. In Nigeria, I had haircuts weekly or every 2 weeks - depending on free time, and need. The price was negligible, so I’d never had to budget for a haircut. It’s been about 3 years of ...

Yesterday I saw snow. I probably read about snow for the first time when I was three or four. Since then I have seen pictures and videos of it, imagined it, and wondered how I would feel when I saw it. All my siblings had seen snow, even the last one; who was ten years younger. It was just a ...