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March 2024

January 2024

ballerina in a wasteland
friends, i turn thirty today. in celebration, i’m publishing my first work of fiction (or vignette? short story?) this piece juxtaposes defiance and…
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Tobi Ogunnaike
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merry in the messy middle
Candid Christmas: Relentless Positivity vs. The Honest Nitty-Gritty.
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Tobi Ogunnaike
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December 2023

November 2023

listen to emergence
When I started my sabbatical in Barcelona, the question about how to introduce myself was puzzling. “Engineer” was accurate but felt limiting. “Writer…
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Tobi Ogunnaike
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…
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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…
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The "Introductions Wall" was a hit 🥹
Dear Reader, This writer has had a crazy week. I was twenty-four hours away from moving into a new apartment in San Francisco. One that seemed so…
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Tobi Ogunnaike
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October 2023

let's get to know each other 😬
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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…
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