I turn 20 tomorrow, so I’ve decided to celebrate with you all! After a long, unexpected hiatus, I’m beyond excited to say that we are SO back!  To be completely honest, I spent the past semester locked up in my dorm, filled with fear and angst. In some intense combination…

February is here and love is in the air! And not just romantic love! I recently got dinner with a friend of mine, and I started ruminating on what it meant to live with love in your heart.  I’ve been saying that I want to practice love more openly this…

I just finished my late afternoon meditation session, and I like to end by listening to the song I was named after. At some point in the early 80s, my grandmother traveled to Kenya, and she brought a Miriam Makeba record back for my mother. The record had a song…

Today was the last day of my first week of classes this semester, and I have fully adjusted. My schedule this semester fortunately leaves me with lots of time to unwind in the evenings, which I am unbelievably grateful for. All this available late afternoon time has given me a…

I think the start of a new year is the best time to reorient yourself. I recently got back from a much needed trip to see my family abroad, and I brought with me some new ambitions and goals.  During vacation, I realized that I’m actually turning 20 in a…

I believe that every year we live through teaches us lessons that make us understand ourselves better. In an effort to hold myself accountable in 2024, as well as being transparent and vulnerable with the world, I’ve decided to compile a list of what I took away from this year…

Winter break in college is always such an intense time for me. All my friends from college are going back to their hometowns, and I end up back in New York City.  I’m writing this in my bed in Trinidad, the country I was born in. Honestly, it would not…

About a year ago, I made the personal decision that I had to become a well adjusted person in society. After years of mental illness and everlasting spirals, it took a humiliating experience with a man and a new SZA album for me to decide that enough was enough, and…

The name Idony derives from Iðunn, the Norse goddess of spring, renewal, and providing everlasting youth to her fellow deities.  When trying to find a name for this project, I wanted to find something that felt right. After years of uncertainty in myself and my work, I needed to create…