Howdy! This is my second installment of the Taking Stock Series. The year’s off to a good, but slow start, and I feel like now is a good time to take stock. Let’s go! Making: a vision board for 2018. I know it’s already way into the year and these kinds of things are usually done as new year resolutions, but I just need to keep my eye on my goals and always be reminded of them when I slack….
Have you watched Black Mirror? If you haven’t, you need to. YOU 👏 HAVE 👏 TO! The series paints the perfect picture of how social media and the internet in general, has taken over our lives, as we wake up every day to log into our phones and computers and seek validation from strangers on the Internet. Every episode has a different story, a different cast, written by different writers. The only common factor is references to technology and the…
I have been unsuccessfully trying to blog for a while. For months, my mind has just been an empty goo of blank. I’d blame it on writer’s block but that wouldn’t entirely be true. The truth is, I have just been lazy. And busy with my 9 to 5. In addition, my hosting expired, sometime after my last post, at a time when I was flat ass broke. Consequently, the blog has pretty much been offline throughout the last quarter…
I am on the commuter train heading to work. Another long day of building someone’s dreams. Another long day of emails, meetings, calls, chats, documents, sign offs, and a tonne of plastic smiles. I have since mastered the art of plastic smiling. Flashing my teeth someone’s way and pretending to be genuinely amused, when I really just want to flip the birdie at them. Yeah, it’s gonna be a long day.
I must admit, I haven’t read in a while. Which is bad because a good writer is a good reader. Maybe this is the reason why I lost my mojo and couldn’t write for months. The last book I read was one I have always wanted to read after my friend (thanks, Wilcky) shared an excerpt from it with me; We Need New Names by Noviolet Bulawayo. It is the only book I have really read from start to finish….