Intentional Parenting
I was in church today, and the programmer asked for a child who would volunteer to pray before they went for their own service. Four of them came, and because…
Mental Health
I attended a mental wellness campaign. I sat among people who have dedicated their lives to helping others navigate the scars of life. I was in the presence of champions…
Chirywrites
I want to wake up one day and be able to say I have lived. I have this friend who says he has lived. The first time he said it,…
Mental Health
We speak different languages, communicate in really unique ways, and express our needs in differently.More often than not, we misunderstand each other because we expect people to communicate the way…
Chirywrites
Maybe it’s meant to be that you break your soul before you can grow with it.You must fall way below the bottom of the sea before you can aim at…
The Wild Forest
It’s the things that cross your mind when you are alone. The truth of your existence is revealed when you wake up in the middle of the night. That feeling…
Chirywrites
I have learned to listen, and the exact time in which there’s a shift in energy, I have learned to he present. When I am bubbly and happy, my mood…
My Mother
Success means achieving the goals we set for ourselves. At the mention of success, I think about my mother. That amazing woman has lived her life exactly how she wants…
Intentional Parenting
I am looking into the eyes of a child. Let me start from the beginning. I am sitting somewhere, and across from me is a baby and her mom. She…
Intentional Parenting
My child has an infection. It's minor; however, she needed mediation, so I got her some. They don’t taste so well because it’s medicine. This morning I am giving her…
Gifts of adulting
I advocate for being there for each other. In a sensible way because it really eases many of our struggles. Yesterday I had a serious migraine—the kind that makes you…
Diary of Parenting
My child asked me to give her privacy today. I stood there very surprised, and she thought I didn’t hear her. She called me and said, “I need privacy. Please…
Gifts of adulting
Today I write about my best friend,a beautiful woman with an amazing soul. I don’t know where to start, so I will just wing it. People talk about fights they…
The wild forest
I sit here by myself, trying to exist in a space so huge, and yet none of this is enough.I listen to my being fight within itself as it tries…
Firstborn Chronicles
Home is where our lives begin. It is where we learn to be earlier in our lives. For most homesteads, the firstborn came when the love was new, or rather,…
Chirywrites
I would be really scared if someone stayed the same as days went by. Like, what do you mean you are the same person you were six months ago? You…
Chirywrites
Last week, my little human brought home a piece of paper. An invitation to a birthday party, handwritten with different colors. I remember thinking that must have been a lot…
Chirywrites
It is a fine evening, and I am heading home after a beautiful work day. I am sitting on the front seat of a matatu. There are five screens, five…
Chirywrites
Someone I know had a boyfriend; they had a good relationship for the most of it. He took her home, introduced her to his parents, and they were going to…
Chirywrites
It's amazing how this year's pictures look. How beautiful our backgrounds were when we smiled for pictures! The smiles that hid so much were going on then. If pictures really…
Chirywrites
That scripture says (Proverbs 21:9) that it is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house. Well, today I finally…
Turquoise
There's that cliche question that people ask, What's your favorite color?". I didn't get to ask because it came up in conversation like a shining light. Turquoise,he said with so…
The wild forest
It's amazing how this year's pictures look. How beautiful our backgrounds were when we smiled for pictures! The smiles that hid so much were going on then. If pictures really…
The wild forest
A few years ago, I needed a family planning method. So I go to a public dispensary here in Nairobi. My period has always been light, so I never wear…
The wild forest
As a single woman raising a child or children it's very difficult to have your own life. People will tell you how strong you are or how lucky you are…
The wild forest
When I was pregnant, my baby daddy took good care of me. The physical chores that needed to be done, he did them without fail. There were other things that…
Single Parenting
Someone I know had a boyfriend; they had a good relationship for most of it. He took her home, introduced her to his parents, and they were going to get…
Year recap
Its amazing how this year's pictures look.How beautiful our backgrounds were when we smiled for pictures.The smiles that hid so much that was going on then.If pictures really could speak,…
Believe
Each one of us has a belief system. A way in which we think the world should work for it to make sense. The truth is it never really does…
The Village
I am sitting by the roadside. It has been twenty minutes and I am already exhausted. The noise, the screeching of vehicles, the beeping damn am not enjoying this. The…
Loneliness
The lonely nights, the silence right after babies go to bed. The resounding silence when you can't fall asleep because you aren't tired enough or you are thinking about something.…
Tough truths
I have loved so deeply, yet I never felt that kind of purity in those who showed me love. I cared so intensely, yet I never felt safe enough not…
Little Pieces of ME
I looked in the mirror. There stood a beautiful girl, beautiful in all of her essence. I have been to the bottom of the ocean, where monsters live and survive.…
The Dream
It started with an Hey, then grew to a journey It happened so fast, like lightning fast I couldn’t believe it, but I was enjoying it There I was living…