Dear White People

I am not your chocolate anything. Period. Just because we are friends, doesn’t mean you can say, sing or write the word ‘nigga’ in any context ‘Wog’ anything makes me want to slap you. You will never understand the struggles of growing up black, even if we grew up in the same neighborhood, went to…

The Lifelong Casting

For those of you that don’t know, I’m Wiccan, and I’m working on a spell that will take 30 years to complete. The thing is with spell crafting is that the more time and effort you put into a spell the stronger it becomes, so I’m using the phases of the moon and the positions…

Piling on pounds with age, and the ridiculous expense of eating healthily

Here’s the rub. I’ve always had a high metabolism, so throughout my youth I always stayed fairly thin, despite me having a relatively sweet tooth. I’d take drugs all weekend and then devour packs of biscuits, chocolate bars and various other junk during the week while eating one long continuous meal all day. Then shortly…

‘Buy this car to drive to work, drive to work to pay for this car’ -Handshakes by Metric

I’m gonna keep this one brief. If you’re working to survive, and you are not married and supporting beautiful children, you are not living. You are a slave. Those that do have children; more power to you. Children are worth more than any career could be. But if you think can have the perfect career…

Mud is thicker than Blood

There’s been a fair few times over that last couple of weeks that the conversation naturally drifts towards my family life. And having a somewhat spotty relationship with my mother and having left home at a very young age, I’m understandably hesitant to talk about it. Which of course leads to prying, which leads to…

Keyboard Politicians

I’ve seen a lot of post on social media like ‘Why is everybody suddenly a politician.’ Let me tell you why this is dumb as fuck. Politics affects every person in every household, so people interested and therefore engaging in the conversation about politics should be applauded. When you engage is something, you form an…

Excerpt of my book extended

Prologue   Fire rose in large plumes and blood flowed as freely as the black and grey smoke. The village was destroyed. I was surrounded by people, but felt more alone than I had in my life. He was gone. He was dead. The ground continued to shake. I continued to cry.   1  …