Hello Friends!

My health issues are kind of escalating so I’m going in for more testing this week and will be MIA for a bit. I apologize because I told y’all I’d be around more after graduation and I hate that I’m not. I am really sorry because I did have some things (community posts) planned for TSB but I gotta go figure out wtf is…

Let me tell y’all, I still can’t get over how differently I’m treated because of this. Everyone is just so pleasant and patient and willing to work with me! I really didn’t believe it could be like this. Not only that, but my ethnicity didn’t work against me concerning the doctor and actually might have helped things.…

For the time being, my work/school load is stabilizing and my health has improved so I’ll be around more as I am forever job searching. Besides school, work and The Salad Bowl, I have not really paid attention to anything outside of cats, politics and food so I feel like I’m really behind on wtf is happening around…

All last week I had some insane vertigo. It was so bad that I couldn’t even look at a computer or phone screen and lights were making me nauseous. At first I thought I had some low-key food poisoning (and I think I did. My boyfriend switched brands on our ready-to-eat bacon and ordered a brand that was not precooked.…

I just finished this book for school and fell in love with the author and her writing. Naylor’s story talks about black people assimilating and how they start to lose a piece of their blackness (and themselves) for the sake of appearances and acceptance in a white world.
The New York Times wrote a review when it was…

Tell me what’s going on? What’s new? Bad? Good? Hilarious?

Great piece by John Pavlovitz.

I apologize for being extra scarce but it’s been a very busy month. I’m headed to LA for grad school for a couple of weeks and then I graduate! After that, I start my field study (hopefully) with a black woman’s magazine and will have a much smoother schedule.

Love you all! Hope everyone is doing great!

I met up with a friend and former coworker and his boyfriend last weekend to hang out. They live in Hillcrest, which is essentially the heart of the LGBTQ community in San Diego, and I lived there for about six months before moving to the desert.
Anyhow, my friend’s boyfriend’s job offered to relocate him to Arizona…

I told y’all that I got a real writing job that paid by the article that I was really excited about. It was with a blog much like TSB; for people of color by people of color. I did a couple of interviews, including Skype, and was sent over a contract.

Every week, on Saturday, we send in three pitches and by Monday…

It’s kind of rubbing me the wrong way, probably because summer drinks are the most fun drinks to come up with (for me), but also because they said gin and tonics are gross. I agree it’s difficult to like gin but throw some muddle cucumber in a gin/tonic, possibly a bit of agave to circumvent the biting taste of gin…

I graduate in June! I’m almost there! It’s taken forever, it’s been a struggle at times but I did it! I’m just excited and wanted to share!

Omg, this is JUICY. Here what I know:

After Cohen’s life got raided by the FBI, they discovered that Hannity is one of Cohen’s client. Now apparently no one really knew about this except the parties involved because Shep Smith just said that Hannity’s producers are trying to reach him and that Hannity will produce a…

YOOOOOO I got to see Busta Rhythms perform and bring out surprise guests, Snoop, Warren G, Mase and Diddy! IT WAS AMAZING AND I LOST ALL OF MY SHIT! That’s only the third concert I’ve ever experienced and I didn’t have to pay for it!

I’m off work and running around getting ready for Coachella, then I’ll be a ghost until Monday, possibly longer, since once the weekend is over I’ll be slammed with work and school. So, you got questions, requests, thoughts, concerns, whatever, you got until late tonight to ask me.

Here’s the story: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/politics/fbi-raids-office-of-trumps-longtime-lawyer-michael-cohen.html

In case you didn’t hear, between January 2011 and August 2016, any Black, Pacific-Islander, Native American or Asian person that bought a car and was financed through Toyota Motor Credit Corporation is eligible for a settlement. It’s the craziest thing, apparently they were charging higher interest rates to those…

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