Traveling the world and working on our passions? Those are two outrageous luxuries that I don’t ever want to take for granted. But it seems we’ve chosen these luxuries at the expense of others. Because you know what else is luxurious? Getting to watch your only living grandparent excitedly kiss every one of her 17 grandchildren on her 89th birthday. I’m not afraid to say that sometimes, missing out on home sucks balls and I'm fit to book a ticket back.
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How One Compliment Changed Literally Everything
I'm sitting here torn between wanting to cry and wanting to moisturize my goosebumps. You ever get that? Let me back up. Out of pure and procrastinate curiosity, I was scrolling through my unpublished Wordpress drafts when this precocious title caught my eye: The Greatest Day of My Journalistic Life. Last edited: June 24, 2010. I settled in to LOL, but what I actually found made my breath catch. I had stepped back in time to an incredibly intimate and pivotal life moment for baby-me. It was the first day I ever felt seen. Allow me to set the scene.
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7 Dope Personal Finance Experts Who Aren’t White Dudes
I asked the Internet, "Can anyone recommend some personal finance resources written by women, especially women of color?" Praise be to the Webz, because I received a ton of recs. And somewhere, there's a lil' brown girl like me asking the same question, and she deserves a solid answer.
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Scammin’ Free Flights with Credit Card Points
Y'all: When I tell you I'm about that budget travel life, I mean it. Smart spending is a lifestyle, friends -- so you won't be surprised when I tell you that we're also getting free flights using credit card points and basically flying everywhere for nothing.
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How I Budgeted My Way to Debt-Freedom
So, wait: Did I tell you that I make ridiculous financial literacy videos about how to budget, how to pay off student loans, how to save money to travel, and all those types of things that freakin’ no one taught us growing up? No? Oh, girl. Grab a refreshment.
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Goddamnit, I’m Homesick
I think the travel blogging/digital nomad set wants you to believe that we're fearless adventure Beyonces 100% of the time. But today, I woke up as a small child in a damp, cold hole who just wanted to go home.
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#YouthNotes: America, Do Better
It’s high-time for another round of #YouthNotes, where I hang with as many youth workers in as many countries as possible, tryna learn about the communities of young minds that they serve. (If you’re confused, read up more here!) In this installment, we hopped down to Wellington and explored an age-old question: Ok, but are you legit? In the US, lawyers have to pass the dreaded Bar to practice law; each state has its own rules of certification if you want to teach. What happens when a whole country agrees to certain standards you must pass in order to mold young minds as a youth worker? In Wellington, we learned about a…
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How to Prioritize Your Whole MF Life
Our priorities were so effed, it almost cost us $600 on a thing we didn't care about. Sh*t needed to change.
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#YouthNotes: Chur, Zeal West
The impact of a young person seeing their art alive, not tacked up in a sterile school hall, but at a space like Zeal that they claimed for themselves? It could change a whole life.
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#YouthNotes: An Intro
You know how people say stuff like, Find out what makes you come alive, or Do what you love and let it kill you? My answer’s been set for a while: Youth empowerment. Teen programming. Supporting under-served populations of young geniuses. My work with young creators, especially through social work and after school/summer camp programming, has both kicked me alive and steamrolled the ever-living snot out of me — and I’m still in love. That’s a decent sign, right? Helping young people believe in their magic has been my north star. And, wonderfully, it’s Peter’s, too. Peter taught youth writing workshops in New York and Michigan; served in the Peace…
