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Vera Goes To Los Angeles, California For BlogHer Conference

Luggage For BlogHer Conference

Yesssss!!! It's time for the BlogHer Conference, and I am pumped! This year is my third consecutive time attending the BlogHer conference, so it goes without saying that I love this conference. It has been worth it every single time, and I expect this year to be the same. I have come a long way since I first attended the conference. The first time I attended the conference, I did not know anyone. It felt like I was dizzy and playing pin the tail on the donkey ... on a frog. Frogs don't have Read More

Journal #19: July 2016

Journal #19

Welcome to August. Considering how late I was to post Journal #18 for June 2016, this time, I'm determined to not make the same mistake. It's only August 2nd and I'm on it already - as it should be. July was HOT! And I mean it literally. There were so many over hundred degrees days, and we live on the top floor, so while the roof of our building is far from the sun, we are still the closest ones to the sun, compared to our neighbors below. If you know a little about me, then you know that I Read More

Journal #18: June 2016

Journal

Considering that today is July 28th, am I allowed to say welcome to July? This journal is supposed to be about how my June went, but because it's the end of July, I have forgotten everything that happened in June. I didn't really do anything special, and I don't even remember how my social calendar went. It's the craziest thing. Apart from the heat trying to melt me, I don't seem to remember what else happened. Perhaps, the heat melted all my memories away. I'm already getting ready to Read More

So … We Rushed Ada Verastic To The Emergency

Ad Verastic

My people, I almost had a heart attack. Let me tell you what happened! It was before Igwe traveled to Nigeria for a couple of weeks. On the night it happened, Igwe and Ada Verastic went to bed at about the same time, while I stayed up in the living room writing. It was past 1:00 AM, and I had just shut down my laptop when Igwe came out to the living room with Ada Verastic. He said she had woken up crying, so I told him to go back to bed while I fed her. I warmed her milk and attempted to feed Read More

4 Reasons Why Kim Kardashian Should In Fact Keynote BlogHer16

Kim Kardashian BlogHer16

Yesterday, BlogHer broke the blogging internet by telling us that Kim Kardashian will be keynoting the BlogHer16 conference next month. Honestly, my first reaction was ugh ... why Kim Kardashian? Two years ago, there was Kerry Washington, and last year, there was Ava DuVernay, and this year, my biggest excitement has been Mayim Bialik because ... Amy Farrah Fowler. But then I thought about it some more and I thought, hmmm, there's a lot I could learn from her actually. Kim is an incredibly Read More

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