I’ve not met a lot of TV couples whose love story mirrors real-life romance to a tee. Sure, real couples and their struggles inspire the love stories that are told on TV, but I find that after developing them into movie-worthy stories, a lot of them are impractical. …

Fairly often, I find myself in the thick of discussions about romantic relationships, but every time people use personal experience to buttress a point, my examples are sweeping generalizations, sometimes about incidents that did not happen but I suspect could be the experience of a woman in a relationship. “In…

It’s a lazy evening after work. My tired body is sprawled out on my couch and for pleasure, I tune the television to a food channel where the host is animated as he describes the browned and promisingly succulent ribs on the plate before him. The sides of my lips…

When was the last time you tried something new? Or, have you recently turned down an opportunity to try something new? *** One channel I absolutely love on YouTube is Yes Theory. If you don’t know about them, where have you been?! Yes Theory is a YouTube channel chronicling the…

To read the first installment of this 2-part series, click here. For a while now, Smart and Smith have been showing signs of old age. If we were to approximate one dog year to seven human years (unverified), they’d be well into old age at 77. …

“They’re going to eat Smart,” my sister said, horrified. “Ha! Ha! Ha!” I laughed in derision because she must’ve been high on something. “I’m serious. Brother Tee* is coming to take her tomorrow.” I tsked. It was the most ridiculous thing I’d ever heard. …

It starts with the unmistakable tune of an electric guitar that is quickly matched by the steady sound of a talking drum. It sounds wistful yet bold, a combination I quite like. …

If asked what the perfect synonym for this book should be, I’d say elegance, because there’s something uncommonly graceful about its writing. You know how you read some books and have an out-of-body experience because its writing is so good it transports you out of space, that’s how I felt…

Kemi’s Journal. A first year undergrad student, I was taking a general English class that required my class to read a book, Abidemi Sanusi’s Kemi’s Journal. As we discussed the book in our first class, I did not have a copy. It didn’t seem that big of a deal; after…