Welcome!

Hey there, welcome to my blog. This has been a long time coming since writing is one of my happy places. I chose now to start posting my thoughts instead of just leaving them on Evernote, because I figured if I have an audience, great! If I don’t, then...

Dyslexia: This is for My Son and Every Person with a Learning Difference

I always told my son, “Jaiden, you’re in the company of greatness! Albert Einstein, Leonardo DaVinci, Pablo Picasso, Whoopi Goldberg, George Washington, Steven Spielberg, Mohammad Ali, Walt Disney, Richard Branson, Charles Schwab, Henry Ford, Jennifer Aniston, Orlando Bloom, Tom Cruise, John Lennon, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Octavia Spencer, Ben Foss, many...

Shape-shifting Nomads

"Shape-shifting is the alteration in form or substance of any animate object. There seems no limit to the kinds of objects susceptible to such alteration. Examples abound of the shape-shifting of plants, animals, humans, and gods."...

When We Thought We Were Being Kidnapped in Europe!

Let me tell you about our craziest travel experience ever! The time when we thought our family was going to be kidnapped by men who looked like they came straight out of a scene from the movie Taken. It happened in our last months in Greece, as we went...

Where Are You From?

‘Nigerian by birth, American by Nationality and Global at heart’. Wait. Have I just come up with the perfect answer? Yes! That’s me! That’s me in one sentence. Eureka! They say you sometimes come up with the best ideas while executing the most mundane tasks. Especially a task involving...

Beware of Death Traps Posing as Bike Trails

Let me tell you about a death-defying bike adventure we went on when life was still normal. It was at this GORGEOUS eco-lodge called Hippo Pools, in Umfurudzi National Park, Zimbabwe. After one night of a lovely experience watching hippos and seeing zebra and giraffe on a walking safari, we...