Most of us have probably heard the old line: Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. And that pretty much means don’t be ungrateful i.e. an ass when you get a gift. I hadn’t put much stock in it before because, well, I never behaved that way. My mom’s Finnish-American and my dad is Nigerian, so I wasn’t really raised with the saying as is. Every gift I got was great, because 1) I didn’t...

Rosi S. Phillips was born in 1993 with caramel colored skin, to a Nigerian immigrant father and a 2nd generation Finnish mother. With this background, International awesomeness was soon to follow.Rosi attended public schools in Cleveland (Ohio), Richfield (Minnesota) and Washington, DC and ultimately received a scholarship to attend Emerson Preparatory School In Dupont Circle, graduating at 16....

As some of you might know, I was offered a ghostwriting deal a while ago. I immediately jumped at the offer as a way to become a better writer and also make a little cash. Writing is very time consuming and the only rewards are from fans and a satisfaction at the end of a story. But I wouldn't have it any other way.Recently, the company I write for offered to publish one of my stories. Sadly, that...