Happy New Year Wi Nor Die Oh! Tell God Tenki for Wi Life Oh! đ¤My loves, welcome back. After an intentional end-of-year 2025 break, Iâm stepping back into this space slowly and with so much gratitude. Rest, grief, reflection, family time â all of it was needed. And in that quiet, something that had been…
This week, I used AI as my personal skincare scientist to find the best OSEA dupes, and the results were so good I had to bring the full breakdown to the blog. Between the kids, my full-time job, designing a home, and trying to savor my 5 minutes of morning peace, your girl does not…
Letâs be realâside hustles are not always cute and glamorous. As a millennial mom running a full-time job, a household, and a dream on the side, Iâve learned that automation is the secret sauce to staying sane. The right tech tools wonât just save you timeâtheyâll help you show up smarter, faster, and more creatively…
Afro-Modern Interior Design: How I Made It Work for My Loud, Loving, Sometimes-Messy Family Letâs be honest for a second. If you grew up in a typical African household, you already know what the aesthetic was giving: đ Giant, heavy furniture that took up half the room and somehow still wasnât that comfortable. đ˝ Oversized…
This weekâs recipe spotlight is on Tola from Sierra Leone! This is one of my absolute favorite soups and my kids love it too! Itâs super quick and very tasty! I have fond memories of specifically asking my mom to show me how to make this because it’s in my top 5 favorites. This is…
High-functioning anxiety doesn’t look like falling apart â it
looks like over-preparation. A first-gen Black mom on the anxiety
nobody sees, and the panic attack I thought was a heart attack.
Your career identity after a layoff doesn’t disappear â but it does go quiet. And in that silence, most of us realize for the first time that we have no idea who we are without the job title. I know, because I’ve been there. With Oracle just announcing 20,000 to 30,000 global layoffs, I’ve been…
Losing yourself in motherhood is one of the quietest crises a woman can experience. There’s no dramatic breakdown. No clear moment when it happens. Just a slow, reasonable-looking swirl that pulls pieces of you inward â until one day you look around and realize you have disappeared somewhere inside the life you helped build. I…
If youâve ever wondered how stress affects the body, I learned the answer in a way I couldnât ignore â staring at a screen covered in red. Red spots.Everywhere. That was the day I stopped treating stress like a mindset problem and started seeing it as a body problem. I had gone to a chiropractor…
Everyone can build now. Thatâs not shade â thatâs just the moment weâre living in. We are watching AI and storytelling collide in real time. You can vibe code your way to a website. You can prompt your way to a brand strategy. You can generate copy, visuals, workflows, and entire product frameworks in minutes….
If youâve ever asked your child how their day was and gotten âgoodâ⌠Or tried to check in after a meltdown and heard âIâm fineâ through tears⌠You already know the struggle. Many of us are searching for how to build emotional vocabulary in kids because we can see the gap. We want fewer meltdowns….
If youâve been around for this journey, you already know â I mentally redecorate spaces in my home all the time. Itâs a problem. And also not a problem. đ I have so many ideas for this house, and honestly? This is where my creativity shines. Give me a transitional space and a blank wall…
One thing I’ve learned about how to recognize unhappy people and protecting your peace? Not everyone who feels heavy around you is your assignment. And if you’re like me â a tech person who lives for clear communication and problem-solving â your first instinct when tension shows up is probably to explain harder. When I’m…