Recess. Arguably the best part about school growing up as a kid. Nothing felt better than throwing off the shackles of the classroom and bolting outside towards freedom, your friends in tow. Wind, snow, or humidity that made even your eye-balls sweat. It didn’t matter what the heavens tossed our…

The royal family is obsolete. There. I said it. And this is coming from a die-hard Anglophile. In my humble opinion, the British monarchy is a romanticized relic that no longer holds relevance in our modern world. Its lingering presence is an offence to those who suffered cultural monopolization at…

I wasn’t always like this. There have been times in my life where I have eaten pasta and even enjoyed it. But that was ages ago during my youth when I didn’t know any better. And before you write me off as some keto-carnivore health nut, I’d like to say…

I’m a completely different person from who who I was 5 years ago. And that’s not only because your skin cells renew themselves every 48 days. To give you a better picture [and because I love a good analogy], it feels like my mind started out in Brazil and now…

In our last article, we talked about the end of my honeymoon phase with the dollar store. Although very much distraught, I’ve come to realize that the end of this chapter signifies the unfolding a new one. The dollar store has opened my eyes to a new way of thinking…

Disclaimer: Yes, I do in fact understand that some people have ‘real’ problems. It seems like every time I visit the dollar store, the prices have gone up. The dollar store and I used to be joined at the hip. I have many fond memories of trips to the dollar…

Somewhere in an exploited developing country a sweatshop worker squints and expertly dodges their fingers as they sew a name brand logo onto a shirt. A college student sits down for a 3 hour study session after coming from yoga and working a cover shift for a co-worker at Starbucks…

When it’s too inconvenient to fight for your liberties, You leave the door wide open to usher in tyranny. Suddenly, standing up for your rights becomes blasphemy, The writing on the wall is just another conspiracy. You look around and wonder how people can stomach the injustice, And watch their…

A quarter-life crisis tends to sneak up on you. To paraphrase Hemingway, it happens slowly and then all at once. In the end you’re left dazed and wondering what happened while your ideologies lay scattered around your feet. You’re suspended in the cosmos without an anchor, drifting towards … you…