Then karma taught me a hard lesson by being the victim of a Catfish — MTV’s “Catfish” is now in its eighth season, and I’m still puzzled by how people keep falling into these traps — especially considering I was once a “Catfish” myself. I don’t embarrass easily, but this was not one of my finest moments. I was in elementary school and chit-chatting with…

Are basic manners not basic anymore? — “If you don’t have enough for everybody, then you don’t have enough for anybody,” my mother used to tell me as a kid. It was one of those rules that was baked into my head early on. I observed her cook massive meals for a handful of people — be…

When a job seems too good to be true, best believe it (usually) is — Something was off. I couldn’t put my finger on what it was, but when I walked into this building, I just couldn’t shake the feeling that I needed to leave. I’d quit my job in Corporate America and said I would never go back. But then I got a recruiter…

Parents, start talking about the Birds and the Bees earlier — At 40 years old, I fall right into the pool of geriatric pregnancy odds. Still, I am extremely pissed off by the Supreme Court (with GOP new Supreme Court judges Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett largely responsible for this near-50-year-old law being overturned). After the “pro-lifers” overturned Roe vs…

If you hate landlords that much, wait to own instead of renting — The worldwide pandemic has created an even further hostile divide between tenants and landlords. Since 2020, there have been an estimated 989,080 evictions in six states and 31 cities. While some states and grants scrambled to mediate eviction and help both property owners and tenants with lost finances, others just…

Capitol Riot hearing proves that opinions can change, politically, culturally and socially — “Watch FOX News,” my grandfather would tell me on occasion. “You have to always know what your enemy is thinking.” Considering he was a veteran who fought in a war, I understood why he thought this way. I even respected his open-minded views about giving someone unlike him “the floor”…

Schoony’s artwork is a reminder of when kids are robbed of their youth — Whether you were for or against the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the general consensus was that those wars went on for far too long and led to too many deaths. In fact, since 2001, 2.77 million service members have served on 5.4 million deployments across the world, primarily from…

The Lori Harvey hate unleashes men’s own insecurities — Outside of Beyonce, there is probably no black woman who rattles hoteps’ cages quite like Lori Harvey. In the past week, gossip mags circulated, assuming that Lori Harvey and Michael B. Jordan have called it quits. While neither of them have posted a picture of each other on their Instagram…

Part 2 of 2: Troubleshooting problematic freelancing contracts — My car radio is set to NPR whenever I turn the ignition on. In the past few months, there’s a 99% chance I’ll hear about the Great Resignation — more than 4 million Americans have quit their jobs every month for 11 months straight in the past year. Even before…