Bless me, my beloved readers, for I have sinned. It has been a full month, 21 days since my last blog. Sis has been healing. Working hard. Figuring out some shit. Restoring herself. Reinventing herself. Celebrating all victories, big and small. Learning new things. Dropping old habits and picking up new ones.. Walking away from …
WOMEN LIKE ME…
Women like me are often misunderstood and we have stopped caring about correcting the narrative. We have over the years realised like a fine bottle of champagne; we are not for everyone. For some we are too complicated for their palates, too brut for others, our effervescent personalities are too bubbly and some choke. Our …
MY NAIJA EXPERIENCE…
Ready. Set. Go. Now this your Aunty and her love for adventure, what does she do? Believing opportunity only locates you once, jumped sky high when asked if she wanted to travel to Nigeria. This trip had been in the making for many, many, many, moons and it just so happened it was revisited and …
LOVE IS LOVE…
My beloved reader,As you would by now know, I was raised in a Christian home by a woman who was way ahead of her time. At church we were taught to love our neighbours more than ourselves, to pray for our enemies, to forgive so in turn we too could be forgiven and to never …
KNOCK! KNOCK! WOMEN’S MOVEMENT, ANYONE HOME?
‘The women’s movement is dead’! Nokuthula* - Development Practitioner ‘Boys have decided in this election to watch their own backs; this particular election is individual - many people will disappear to oblivion if they don’t win. This is why you see all political parties have failed to field the agreed upon 50% female candidates. If …
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COMPARISON AND COMPETITION…
“Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle. Don’t compare your start to someone else’s finish. Don’t compare your behind the scenes to someone’s highlight reel. Don’t compare your chapter 1 to someone else chapter 17’ We are constantly told to never compare ourselves to other people as we are perfect just the way we …
YES YOU’VE MADE IT TO JULY, BUT AT WHAT COST?
Every Friday, there is a handle on Twitter that asks a very important question:‘You have made it to Friday, but at what cost?’A few days ago it hit me that I have made it into the other half of the year (yaaay!) but at what cost? Listen…When the New Year rolled in, I had such …
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SLAM! BANG! THANK YOU SIR/ MA’AM…
It's not love, it's winter! ‘Hey stranger, been a minute’‘You up?’‘I miss you’‘Thinking of you’‘Can I see you, please?’‘What are you doing RN?’ 'Netflix and chill??’ These texts are the reason dinosaurs and dodos are extinct! For the longest time, these texts were only ever sent by the other gender once the temperatures dropped and …
TO MY BELOVED SON…
My precious child, First of all, thank you. Thank you for choosing me to bring you into this world. Thank you for being perfect. Thank you for confirming to me that there is a God and He is good. Thank you for giving me purpose. Thank you for being my #sonshine and always making my …
SUNDAYS, THE RELATIONSHIP LITMUS TEST…
‘I don’t want a Monday, Tuesday A Wednesday or Thursday Friday or Saturday Oh, nothing but Sunday oh, yeah yeah I want a Sunday kind of love Oh yeah Sunday, Sunday, Sunday kind of love’ A Sunday kind of love - Etta James I decided to spend my Sunday catching up on household chores and …
A VIEW FROM MY THRONE. 