Lettecha Johnson

Lettecha Johnson is an experienced professional that has been doing freelance writing full-time after making the transition from web production. No topic is beyond her reach thanks to a range of knowledge and ability to do strong research.

My Recent Work

House Digest •

Sourdough Starter Is About To Become Your New Favorite Natural Plant Booster - House Digest

As fall sets in, you are probably ramping up your baking game for the holidays. What better way to create a cozy environment than with the smell of freshly baked sourdough bread? As you admire your jar of treasured sourdough starter, have you ever thought about sharing some with your plants? Probably not — but you should. Thanks to nutritious yeast and lactic acid bacteria (LAB), evidence suggests your leftover sourdough starter can give your plant babies a rise — quickly making it a favorite pl...
Super Glad Nomad •

Taking a Crack at a New McDonald's Happy Meal

As a little girl, I remember looking forward to a weekend McDonald’s Happy Meal. Going to the land of Golden Arches every weekend was a rite of passage decades before reading Fast Food Nation. I don’t know what I liked more about it, those nuggets before realizing what they consisted of, or the surprise toy that would be inside. Those Happy Meals were fun and I enjoyed those collectible items. I wish I had saved those toys from the 80s as they would have made a great Etsy store or art installati...
Super Glad Nomad •

Why I Don't Want to Stay in a Hostel or Guest House Again

When I saw the original Hostel Movie years ago, it didn’t help my view of hostels. Once I began traveling SE Asia after living in China for a year, hostels made it easier to transition well through the continent. I mostly enjoyed the accommodations and service, however, I have trepidations for future use due to the crap you put up with from other patrons. With that said, unless there was nothing else available, here are some of the main rea...
Productivity Spot •

How to Print From iPhone With + Without Airprint [Easy] | PS

Looking to print documents and images but don’t have a laptop to connect to your printer? Turns out, you can print whatever you want directly from your iPhone. But how do you print from your iPhone?
The easiest method uses a wireless method that requires an Airprint setup on iPhone. If you can’t or don’t want to use a wireless connection, there are other options.
Today, we’ll show you how to print from iPhone in a few different ways.
AirPrint is a wireless method that uses Wi-Fi to connect devic...
Productivity Spot •

How to Convert PDF to Word on Mac [5 Easy Ways] | PS

We use PDFs for a variety of reasons. We may use them for school assignments, to print out a recipe, or to read an article offline. We often are trying to figure out how to save a Word document as PDF on Mac. But what if we need to make changes to the PDF?
Making changes to a PDF usually can’t be done on the PDF itself. So, it means we have to do a bit of extra work to convert it to a Word document. Don’t worry, learning how to convert PDF to Word on a Mac won’t make you pull your hair out.
Ther...

My One-Month Digital Nomad Journey in Laos | Pipewing

Laos, the country between Vietnam and Thailand, was another stop on my international travels. So, I decided to make a last-minute trip to this SE Asian locale while hopping around Asia like a rabbit during 2019. I honestly did not know much about Laos beyond the association with the Vietnam war. However, I had been in Hanoi for a month, and my visa was about to run out. Quite frankly, I was ready to move on to another country and wanted to go somewhere else before eventually going to Bangkok, Th...
Productivity Spot •

Share a Google Calendar with Others: An Easy 2024 Guide

The world is a busy place. It can take a lot of work to schedule a work meeting, dinner date, or vacation with a colleague or friend. Sometimes it is hard to know off the top of our heads when we will have the same free hour or two as someone else.
Luckily, Google Calendar allows people to share their schedules with anyone they like. Share it with a specific person, a group, or everyone, much like when you share a calendar in Outlook.
Let’s take a look at how to share a Google Calendar with ot...
NBC News •

Opinion | Starbucks in Shanghai is cultural homogenization, and a welcome taste of home

I currently live abroad, but my consumer experience has begun to feel more and more like the movie “Groundhog Day” with Bill Murray, only with the endless malls and chain stores you can find anywhere in America — Starbucks, McDonalds, Domino's, Dairy Queen, Pizza Hut and the like. While small shop owners do exist, you could stand on almost any corner in Shanghai, put on a blindfold, spin around, walk in whatever direction you choose and end up at what looks like the same mall as anywhere else.Ch...
The Guardian •

Books to give you hope: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson’s 2010 bestseller offered a long overdue account of an event in the United States that had a major impact on the cultural fabric of the country: the migration of African Americans out of the south during the early and mid 20th century. When we speak about the history of US migration, this diaspora is rarely mentioned. Cities like New York, Detroit, Chicago and Oakland were end points for many black Americans fleeing Jim Crow and segregation – often by the same railroad that took...
The Guardian •

You're all wrong, dog and cat-lovers. Goldfish are the best pets of all | Lettecha Johnson

Pet debates are dominated by cat lovers and dogs lovers both trying to assert their pet is best. But they’re all wrong, because there is a pet world beyond wagging tails, barking and whiskers.Goldfish are the pet that brighten my life and home. As a child, my family had goldfish for several years, and I still miss the excitement of when my mother added a new one to the tank. As soon as you walked through the front door, a small aquarium dominated by brightly colored swimmers greeted you. While t...
The Guardian •

Three of the best places in Harlem to drink tea in the summer and beyond

When people think of Harlem they may think of the Shake (the dance, or the burger place) and the Globetrotters – but not necessarily tea.As a Harlem resident, I have learned that a great cup of tea does not have be brewed at home or require venturing to Chinatown to purchase some loose-leaf blend.I am a demanding tea drinker: nothing makes me happier than a beautifully crafted chai. Before my Harlem tea explorations my taste buds would often be insulted by a cup of shock-inducing syrup mixed wit...