Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between consuming and contributing, specifically in the context of culture. It’s easy to consume, comforting even. …

Here’s Why You Should Donate to Menstrual Health Organizations During Times of War This morning I woke up at 5a with a jolt in my stomach. I kid you not, my first thought was “Holy cow, am I about to shit the bed?” I did what any 34-year old who…

Gymnast Sekai Wright’s DMX Tribute Was 🔥🔥🔥 Like many, my mornings typically follow a similar routine. I wake up and immediately check my phone (though I’m working on not dilly-dallying for too long.) My next course of action is to head to the kitchen. If my S.O. is up before…

Last year, I helped co-found a nonprofit. Through the creation of the project I had started to identify as an empowered + privileged feminist who was gifting necessary tools to “underprivileged” women, tools that would not only help them survive but THRIVE (sounds white savior-ish, I know..SMH.) But I imagine…

Will microdosing cure my insomnia and subsequent Karen-itis or just further expose my fragile nature to the world? — Anxious episode after anxious episode followed by another sleepless night. That’s my life these days. At one point recently, I even had a near meltdown in Starbucks when the cashier refused to give me a Frappucino straw because they were out of paper straws and the Frap straws “were just…

I am currently sitting in Berlin attempting to work on my daily tasks managing social media accounts for thought leaders while Shirley, my granny is lying in a hospice bed halfway around the world, gasping for her last breaths of air. …

I was a gifted kid. I don’t say that to brag, that’s what they called me. They being the public school system. Later, when I moved from Arizona to Georgia, they put me in Program Challenge. It was essentially the same thing, a special program for intellectually gifted kids, but…

I’m Nicole and now I’m going to tell you a bunch of things about myself that nobody, absolutely nobody cares about. I was in the program or gifted kids all through elementary and middle school. I was the news anchor on the morning announcements in elementary school because I could…

As I shove my zucchini pasta in my mouth and watch the clouds roll by on my balcony, I can’t help but notice my neighbor’s thriving Basil Plant. Upon further inspection, ALL of her plants were thriving. “It wasn’t because she loved them,” I reasoned, “no one loved her plants…