Slowly As you watch it Your heart breaks As he drops it Your breath catches Heartbreak snatches What you thought You once had. Barely crying Slowly dying Now unable to Comprehend What you knew Was coming yet you Ignored what would be The end. So the darkness It begins From your soul From within To […]
I guess it was bound to happen. Nairobi shows no discrimination to its victims, no fear or favour, you know, the way the government is supposed to. I’m still in a bit of denial. My phone was on for a while after. Kept calling it to see. And Airtel was refusing to pick up their […]
Today, we mourn the loss of a great man. Mr. Miyenn. MM was bought in July 2010, and served as a faithful anchor to my topsy turvy life. He was always there for me when I needed him. He had his flaws, like all men do, but at the end of the day, he always […]
Troy Davis was found guilty of murdering a police officer 19 years ago, based upon the testimony of 9 witnesses. -7 : that’s how many of the nine original eyewitnesses have recanted their testimony against Davis. — 0: the amount of physical evidence linking Davis to the crime (no fingerprints, no DNA, no weapon recovered). […]
She gave me my first perm. I was sleeping over at her house,babysitting S and Y (C wasn’t even born yet). They were getting perms or doing their hair or something…my 8 year old memory is rather fuddled. She asked me if I wanted her to do my hair. I nodded,excited at the novelty of […]
In view of Kenya’s recent tragedy, I traipsed down to Bomb Blast Memorial Park to offer my pure (awesome) blood. Upon reaching the front of the line after standing for 2 hours, I may or may not have been disqualified from donating. Why might I or might’nt I disqualified,you ask? Well,I’m not saying I was […]
We all go through that phase at some point in our lives. Well, most of us anyway. Save for those few who were fortunate enough to wind up with that perfect combination of genes, after generations and generations of Mother Nature’s dice rolling, of exchange of dominant and recessive roles between the good and the […]
