Confessions of a Best Maid

Best maid. What does that even mean? That I’m the best damsel,the best girl,in the archaic sense of the word? Best among who? That I’m the best servant? We all know I’m far too narcissistic to be the best at serving anything,except perhaps sarcasm,and even then,really…anyway. The wedding. It’s over! does a leap Now I […]

Summer time!

Praise Jesus, December has finally kicked in. Have you not noticed the sunny days, sans a wet blanket of rain? The clear Mombasa Road, as people have gone on leave? The joyous Christmas promotions that I will never win, yet like to look at anyway? I am very excited. I am able to wear shorts. […]

Book & Film Book 1: A Series of Unfortunate Events – The Bad Beginning

Long have I prowled the streets of Nairobi looking for these series, and finally I found it. (Ha. There’s a pun in there) I kept finding number sijui 11 sijui 13 (which means I have quite a ways to go, sigh). I now realize I should have bought them while they were 50 bob, because […]

Book & Film

So, I am starting a new bit in my blog, where I review – you guessed it – book & film. It’s kinda secretly my dream job. I may not be good at it, but it’s my blog so I don’t care. Ha. Most of the books and films reviewed are available for rent from […]

Egypt is not my home, neither

I am beginning to see the value of a husband. After I escaped the evil clutches of the desert of MORDOR (yes, I lived in Mordor. I refer to it as a desert because there was no water…ever. Turning on taps at work became a favourite pastime to cleanse my soul, because I would be […]

A prayer

I was talking to the good Lord this morning today about this RAIN ALLTHE FREAKIN TIME thing. I envisioned Him as most people do; anold,wizened trickster with rosy cheeks (the model upon which SantaClaus/St. Nicholas was molded. If Jesus was a swarthy Israeli/hot Arabdude,God could be Dutch and able to yodel – smite me not,ye […]

In The End

As I contemplate with my eyes and my mind the brown between my thighs and the way the sun hits your smile just right, I contemplate my future. Our future. That future where there is no us, just me, without you. My heart breaks and reforms only because it must…if I had it my way, […]