Almost three years ago in November of 2012, I walked into BNP Media as a recent graduate of Howard University, elated to be starting my first job out of college as an online content coordinator.

It’s been a while since I wrote my last blog post, so I figured now would be a good time to buckle down and write something. And since I don’t always have the most interesting stories to share, I’ll talk about my trip to South Africa that I went on a couple of months ago.

Yesterday, as I was riding in the cab on my way to the 2015 AHR Expo in Chicago, I was certain that this year’s show was going to be better than last year, for three reasons:

It’s safe to say that my family can be quite the procrastinators sometimes. My dad bought a brand new 55-inch flat-screen TV three months ago, and it’s still boxed up and nestled in the corner of our home library.

June 21 was the first official day of summer, and it seems like the days since then have continued to get hotter and hotter.

Spring has arrived, and thankfully, temperatures here have finally reached the high 50s, which feels like paradise compared to the gruesome, below-zero weather Michigan has endured this past winter.

The typical 10-minute ride from our hotel took about 40 minutes (give or take a few) if you include the time it took to actually catch a cab—and not to mention the crazy polar vortex that hit New York City this morning.

Last month I attended a few different yoga classes with a close girlfriend of mine. The one I liked the most was called "slow burn" yoga, which is a sort-of-less-intense version of hot yoga.

Now that September is here and the summer has pretty much come to a close, I can air out my weather frustrations.

Elementary school, middle school, high school, college. Often times this is the route many of us believes we need to travel to achieve success.