April 5th, 2013 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Featured, Living Life
Nomadness Travel Tribe is an online community where people of color come together to swap travel tips and their love for seeing the world. I joined this private facebook group a little over a year ago… well actually- I was invited in… Yes you need to be invited. And during the Tribes’ one year anniversary party, creator Evita [...]
April 5th, 2013 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Featured, Living Life
To say traveling to India was LIFE CHANGING sounds dramatic, but that’s exactly how I feel. There is something super empowering about being able to walk around in a country you’ve never been- and never imagined being. And then… feeling completely welcomed. Jokingly I’ll say I felt like Oprah, because everyone was so happy to [...]
April 4th, 2013 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Featured, Living Life
While here in New York City a shapely black woman with curly hair is (almost) a dime a dozen– in India we are a rear commodity. While walking the streets of Delhi, Jaipur, Agra, and Pushkar– my picture was taken several times. Some people asked and some people snuck and just took my picture. So I started to take their pictures [...]
January 20th, 2012 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Featured, Living Life
Originally written for Turnstyle News. It had been 25 years since my mom, Lois Williams, saw Freetown, Sierra Leone: the place she was born and raised, schooled, married, and had me, her first of three children. My parents left Sierra Leone in 1986, five years before the official start to the 11 year civil war that [...]
January 20th, 2012 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Dating & Relationships, Featured, Videos
When you’re single and travel as much as I do, dating while away does not seem like a choice, but a necessity. When I’m in NYC (home)—between work, family, and friends—it’s hard to give 100% to getting to know someone new. But when I’m away, “getting to know” everything about where I’m visiting is exactly [...]
August 31st, 2011 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Living Life
This month I boarded an Amtrak train and sat the 11 hours it takes to get to Montreal, Canada. Originally I was only going for 3 days, but there is sooooo much to see and do in Montreal– that I decided to extend my trip to 7 days… one of the perks of Freelancing! As always food [...]
April 17th, 2011 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Videos
VM’s Dating in the City series is a quest to find out what dating would potentially be like for me- if I moved out of New York before I find “the one”. So while in Boston recently for a conference, I took the opportunity to ask 20-somethings there, what dating is like for them. First, [...]
March 24th, 2011 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Dating & Relationships, Videos
Is a successful career at odds with a successful relationship? During my last trip to my birthplace of Freetown, Sierra Leone, I wanted to see if educated African women face the same dating challenges as their American counterparts. Listen to what I found: How do you define being independent? What do you make of what [...]
Ms Lauryn Hill is BACK! Apparently by force, saying: “Here is a link to a piece that I was ‘required’ to release immediately… in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music…” ->However as a LONG time fan, it feels good bumping to ”Neurotic Society!”
Iranian novelist Shahrnush Parsipur speaking at the Brooklyn Library. The sacrifices she made throughout her career got me thinking: What would I sacrifice for my art? Hear my thoughts here: http://youtu.be/YFfnM_-oKMQ
