The Life & Opinions of a Late GenX-er/Early Millennial
Hey Internet friends!Remember me? I know it's been a minute since we caught up. You might have wondered if I disappeared for good or ran off to join a convent. Well, guess what? I'm back (kinda)! Turns out, eight years away wasn't enough to squash my impulse to share my opinions ...
Disclosure: I received compensation for this post. All opinions are my own since I have too many lofty standards for integrity to write about something I don't believe in. Plus, this is a legit post in and of itself. Since moving to New York not too long ago, I've stayed ...
You'd think after all the times I've moved as a kid and an adult, that it'd get easier, less stressful, but noooooo. As usual, life has other plans, and laughs at yours. Life: "Mwah haha. I spit on your plans! I will do as I see fit. Ya dig?" In case you ...
I don't recall seeing "chow down on deep-fried tarantula" on the tour itinerary, but when our local trip guide reviewed the day's plan - mouth in a wide grin, eyes dancing at the mention of "eating spiders" - there it was. Given I'm willing to try (almost) anything once, I was game. ...
Warning: This post contains images and content of a sensitive nature I didn't really know what I was getting into when I decided on Cambodia as a travel destination. A few years ago, a co-worker's raves of her visit to the fast-developing country in Southeast Asia sparked the idea. After watching ...
This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a percentage of the sales which will support running this blog. Be not afraid. When I considered writing an end of the year retrospective, my face scrunched up in disgust as I ...
Over the weekend I had the displeasure of reading some of the most insulting, patronizing collection of words penned by a man of supposed higher education. In an LA Times op-ed Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor at NYU, and judging by his photos, decidedly not Black, deemed it necessary to take to a national newspaper ...
Last week, a Black software engineer, Leslie Miley, made news when he shared why he quit his job at Twitter - where he was the ONLY Black engineer in a leadership role - in a thoughtful piece on the lack of diversity in tech. In recent years, Twitter and other tech giants have come under fire ...
One of my closest friends is a white woman 30 years my senior - a Baby Boomer. We shared a cubicle wall back in the '00s when we worked in IT at a large insurance company. I hated that job so much that some mornings I'd sit in my car ...
I built my first business at 6-years old - a bakeshop, because when you're that age, having your own store full of delectable sweets seems like the best idea in the whoooooole wide world. I lovingly designed the awning with alternating red and white blocks that stretched across the windowed storefront. ...
source I've never really taken an official break from blogging in the three years of this blog's existence - even when I've gone on vacation. So, I'm taking a break. Why now? Quite frankly, I am exhausted by what's going on in the world, particularly in the United States. We've got a racist, ethnocentric, xenophobic, ...
Since Sandra Bland died (was murdered?) I've shed tears nearly every day. I haven't watched the video of her encounter with the police officer who pulled her over. The police officer who stopped her for failing to signal when changing lanes which somehow led to her death. It's too painful to view. I cannot consume ...
Years ago, my visiting sister and I were teasing each other about one of those random topics siblings joke about. My roommate overheard us as she climbed the stairs in our apartment and gently admonished us: "Now girls, don't fight." My sister and I turned to each other with the same puzzled expression. ...
A friend of mine passed away last Tuesday. She was only 37. I'm looking at those words and I still have difficulty absorbing them. Few thoughts are as unnerving as knowing that someone you care about is no longer on this earth in their physical form. That all that's left of them ...
I'm Keisha ("Kee-shuh", not to be confused with Ke$ha). I am a (later) thirty-something, non-mommy, non-wife, who lives in San Francisco, California New York and has lots of opinions on lots of things.
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