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🤑💰 unshackling myself from golden handcuffs

Dec 7, 2022 • Tobi Ogunnaike

🌸 seduced in condesa

May 23 • Tobi Ogunnaike

Seize the Pause: Turn Your Layoff to a Sabbatical

Mar 1 • Tobi Ogunnaike

I don't know where home is

Oct 1, 2023 • Tobi Ogunnaike

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🌸 sight for sore lies

Do you remember the last time one of your senses betrayed you? Your eyes, those squishy face-eggs lured you down a path that left you lost? One minute…

Jul 17 •

🌸 salted serenade

"YOU HAVE TO MOVE HERE. It's the best city in the world." I don't remember who said these words to me. Was it the dancefloor brunette with the flower…

Jun 27 •

🌸 catfished by scampi

Crunch and crisp catapult you to cloud nine. You become giddy and woozy in a near-drunken appreciation of the physical sensations — the seductive wisps…

May 31 •

🌸 seduced in condesa

In this place, her mellow music starts to work its magic. Her mosaic of maverick and melody appeals to the marrow in my bones. When the beat kicks, it…

May 23 •

introducing—buttahbasted, the series

first drizzle of my written album for 2024 summer

May 16 •

13 cities in 6 months

one man, too many beds

I've slept in too many beds this year. When I bought my one-way ticket to Barcelona last November, I unknowingly signed a contract to become a bed…

Nov 12, 2023 •

beyond the Bali cliché

If I told you I went to a tropical paradise, only to spend three days writhing in bed with painful stomach cramps, you’d assume I’d never wish to…

Oct 22, 2023 •

lost in translation: my supermarket saga in Barcelona

Lost, confused, and overwhelmed in a Barcelona grocery store—sometimes adventures happen in the most mundane places. Come relive my ten minutes of…

Oct 8, 2023 •

I don't know where home is

My autocorrect is trapped in a bloody battle between two warring worlds. On my phone, spellcheck holds a torch and melts those extra ‘u’s away, earning…

Oct 1, 2023 •

what I ate in 24 hours in Bangkok

Baste in Bangkok

Sep 23, 2023 •

prose poetry

sinking in shallow waters

You stand ten toes deep in waters near hip height. A surge of discomfort registers in your body. Slow sensations shimmy up your spine. The water is…

Apr 16 •

this is how we must dance

Human, when will you ever learn? You can’t bend me to your will or your schedule. I don’t have a calendar. When you get all worked up because our…

Nov 19, 2023 •

🎧 isn't it absurd?

isn’t it absurd, that you deny strangers entry into your home, but you let my words, sit and simmer in your most sacred space, your mind? how is it so…

Oct 15, 2023 •

🎧 when the clock forgets to tick

Sep 21, 2023 •

saltwater salvation

Nature siphoned her antidepressant right into my veins. Millimeters of mercy immersed themselves in my body—dissolving knots of tension, infusing…

Jul 24, 2023 •

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