Tina Turner sang about love, asking the difficult questions. "Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?" If you listen closely, you can hear how hard it is…

Love is a strong word—the kind of word that many have given up so much in an attempt to describe. I have decided that love means different things for everyone,…

I love peculiar. I love bizarre. I live for the unusual. In all honesty, I am one peculiar creature no wonder the inclination. Waking up and finding myself surrounded by…

Dear Ex I never thought that I would write about you or that I would ever think about you. But I held our child and wiped her tears as she…

Everybody is chasing something. Depending on what your needs are, you will always be chasing something. Owe unto you if your joy comes with chasing because you will never settle.…

I grew up knowing that love is a beautiful thing, a dream, as evidenced by the storybook The End Game. I have been thinking about that thought process and how…

Defined as true desire sustained or prolonged is something that each individual holds to fulfil at some point in their life. To others having the desire or determination to achieve…

One day, I will write about the tribulations of being an opinionated woman in this country. You speak your mind; you are told you are bossy; you don't speak your…

Makokha, after making up his mind, embarked on his journey to his dream country(America). His dreams was now coming true. 'America! America! America! Is always where I want to be.…

Greatful cause of life.   Being a life today it's not assured r guarantee so grateful about it is very noble. Death is so unpredictable as it can happen to…

Mystery person that makes my heart beat, my soul glow and the smile on my face will tell you that I have hidden reasons. So much is said about life…

Dear Self,It's been a rollercoaster. We have gone through so much that nothing scares us any more. We have much that goes wrong. We have been to the wild forest…

My daughter spent the weekend with her aunties and she has been very very expressive about how much fun she had. At some point I said I am jealous and…

Monday morning: I take a matatu along Thika Road heading to town.I have my earphones listening to a podcast and finishing up something I was responding to. Many minutes have…

It is the chase—the reward of feeling like you can achieve something. Doing everything possible to get it, and when you finally do, the rush is gone. Dopamine is the…

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…

I am in a matatu, which has slowed down because of traffic. This gentleman is eating his lunch at a joint besides the road, and then he remembers he had…

Once upon a time, in a little known village in the interior of a country one family was blessed. One early Sunday morning in the late 1980's, they were bless…

Adulting is a game of winning. Most of us are in it to prove to anyone who cares that we have it under control. So we wake up each day…

Sometimes it’s the fear of the unknown or the fear of what happened the last time. However, most times it is the fear of not being enough. Human beings are…

One day you will be young, with all your dreams intact. You are ready to face the world and conquer it. Then you are an adult with experiences that you…

Make no mistake, people will celebrate you when you die. Not just people—very many people. Which is why it is important to live your life. Love the people who love…

Our caretaker went home for, like, a week. The agency got a substitute for a few days. CBC humans terrorized that man every day for the time he was here.…

I have a really wild mind. There are very few things I can’t tell you I haven’t thought about. Like why the sky is blue and the clouds are white.…

How fast do we forget that the things we have are the things we prayed for? The things that we worked so hard to get. We forget that there are…

The best people in our lives are the ones who accept us for who we are. In early 2022, my father lost his mom, and I lost my grandma. The…

You haven't had a long journey until you plan to travel long distances, and before the day, you do all your runs over time, promising yourself sleep through the journey.…

As children, we are taught to fear what scares us. You tell your child to call an adult when they are scared or to run from a person who looks…

I love this country and the people in it. We do everything we can to survive, even when it isn’t the right thing to do. I am somewhere today, and…

I have always marveled at the sound of a mosquito. A sound so annoying coming from an animal so small. It is like listening to a triggering sound. I can’t…

It has been a crazy day. As a family, we had a function coming up on Friday. I grew up with a lot of guests in our home. I am…

There’s a time I believed in romance. I remember once in high school I got in trouble for writing a poem. I met this fine gentleman at a science congress,…

My favorite movies have love, politics, parenting, forgiveness, and liberation. It is called The Hate You Give. My favorite person in the movie is the dad in that show. That…

This is by far the one thing I have dreamt of so many times. I want to retire on a farm surrounded by trees, water, and lots of fruit trees.…

There was a time in my life when I could close my eyes and couldn't see a thing. There were no dreams,no joy,no pain, nothing, just existence. Looking back, I…

Every day brings forth new challenges, new achievements, and new goals. In the limit of things, of which I believe there are none, I have learned to forgive every day.…

The joy that I have, the world cannot give. The joy that I have, the world cannot take. You may not know this, but true happiness comes from within. When…

The date is July 4th, and people in their golden years are getting money today. That phrase that says, “With age comes wisdom” is really true for these people. They…

Grief is a painfully interesting journey. My grandmother was an amazing woman. She loved us with everything she had. When we were escorting her to her resting place, we were…

Aura is the energy that describes a particular place at a particular time. There are people who carry different types of energy, even when we don’t seem to see it.…

If you look closely and listen to your heart, you will realize that winning isn’t always the price. I like winning; who doesn’t? It is the one thing that brings…

The liberation,the freedom, and the ability to just be yourself and live a life without a single doubt. I wake up each morning with gratitude for being here and for…

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…

No man is an island, so they say. As a child who grew up so fast,I never really got to understand that part. I have learned that you cannot stand…

The problem with bad behavior isn’t just the people who do it. It's also the people who enable the bad behavior. Today we look at the reasons why people enable…

Today I’m lying down on the ground, staring at the sky. The sun is shining on my face, and the wind is blowing. The trees are moving in sync with…

I am sitting by the road side. It has been twenty minutes, and I am already exhausted. The noise, the screeching of vehicles, the beeping—damn, I am not enjoying this.…

6:50 am. Earphones check, music check. I am wearing a short white dress, just above the knee, boots, and a brown trench coat. My coat has a hood, and though…

I am not sure I am a people’s person, but my mantra has always been to give people a safe space to vent. While it has been easy to let…

Once in a lifetime, it’s going to hurt so bad you can’t breathe.Then the pain will go away, and you will have to fill it with something.If you heal, you…

The village is as hilarious as it gets. I am hanging out with Mama and his friends. These people are older than me,so I do what I do best when…