Look at me being trendy!!! I love this for me!!! — After months of stalking the Telfar website and watching review after review, your girl, Big Ni herself, has finally secured a Telfar bag!!!! We did it Joe!!! I copped the color that dropped on my birthday, August 8th. It’s a gorgeous metallic cobalt blue. It’s giving…

A Kindle Paperwhite review, from a life-long reader trying to get her groove back — I impulsively bought myself a Kindle Paperwhite for my birthday, but the purchase seemed like a long time coming. I’ve been a heavy reader since I was a kid, enjoying books like Meg Cabot’s The Princess Diaries and Brian Jacques’ Redwall. Growing up within the blur of a technological uprising…

Renting Everything Everywhere All at Once from Redbox last night was the best $2.99 I’ve ever spent. In a sea of movie remakes and sequels, Everything Everywhere All at Once is constantly, throughout its two hours and change runtime, slapping me in the face with newness. …

Realizing this is half the battle. — Back in college, I was envious of people who’d come to class holding a cup of coffee. They seemed so professional and business-y, adults with a capital A. I, newly 18 and eager to own this brand new, sparkly “adult” title bestowed upon me, started occasionally bringing a cup of…

I’ve got some stuff in here that y’all probably wouldn’t believe. — Way, way back in January 2022, I declared that I was going to listen to 100 new (to me) albums in 2022. I was stuck in a rut of replaying tons of 2000s music. I needed some new new in my airwaves. The challenge was just the kick in the…

Every time I do this I feel like the main character. Because I am. — It’s been five months since I started my yoga practice. I think I like it more now than when I started. I never thought that I, Big Ni herself, would be a yoga girl. Yet, here I am downward dog-ing and child pose-ing like it’s my J-O-B. Yoga has become…

A short story OR the first chapter of a serial fiction series — who knows? — The first night I spent in Grandma’s beach house, alone, I woke up seven times. Awakenings one through six mirrored each other, each gripping my T-shirt and shaking my body, screaming that reality, in its thick solemnity, wasn’t real. The seventh existed in juxtaposition with its former selves: patient, welcoming…

I know I’m the last person to hear about this — but honey I’m here! — Word on the street is that our good sis Medium has a new tipping feature in their website. People (it’s me, I’m people) have been asking for something like that for a while. So, when I saw that lil’ button on people’s stories I was like: