April 27, 2025

When you think you’ve found your footing, life swoops in and sweeps you up like a rogue wave. Maybe that’s why it’s taken me this long to chronicle a trip that wrapped itself so tightly around my heart — because, well, life has been lifing. It feels like yesterday — December’s breath still sharp in…

February 28, 2025

It all started with a dinner invitation I didn’t know I couldn’t afford. As your typical Igbo guy newly settling into Florida, I had long heard of the infamous American tipping culture—a capitalist romance between customers and service workers where one party does all the work, and the other is guilted into subsidizing their paycheck….

February 26, 2025

If you think you’ve fully assimilated into American culture just because you’ve eaten a burger, filed your taxes, or yelled “Let’s go Cowboys!”, think again. If you’ve not yet experienced the DART bus and train system in Dallas, your American initiation is incomplete. Forget Hollywood’s shiny portrayals of America; the real raw, unfiltered, and sometimes…