Calling yourself a writer when you’ve been something very different your entire life is an interesting thing.  My entire life I’ve been a creative, an artist, a designer, a director, a curator of apparel brands.  It’s crazy how so much of your identity becomes intertwined with your job, a title that is supposed to represent you, when you are committing a part of your heart and creativity on the reg. The day I started calling myself a writer was the day a friend of mine came t

Have you ever used Yelp as a pre-screener?  There’s a great new brunch spot that all of your friends have been raving about, so you pull up yelp to look at food photos and reviews before locking in a reservation.  One last bit of reassurance that this is the place you want to take 2 trains across NYC for on a Sunday.  The ratings are overall good, the food looks amazing, but as you keep scrolling down, just about to log off your phone, you see it.  The one review that changes

In issue 3 of Oni is on it, I tackle the subject matter of confidence. (All names have been changed or slightly altered) Okemah from Instagram wrote: “Hey Oni, Love this whole advice thing! Anyway, I wanted to ask you about confidence, how does one build confidence when you are feeling self conscious and just unworthy I guess. I’ve finally started dating again since my divorce and it’s very hard to get out of my own head, I often think I’m not good enough for the people I’m d