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Continue reading →: Thawed
If these rooms that stifle you are where your story must be written, then make sure they get the headline right. Will you?” I looked at her radiant self sitting across the table speaking in bold and beautiful sentences. The yellow in her spirit resting on her cheeks like sunlight…
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Continue reading →: The parenting paradox
The weeks leading to delivery are a paradox of time. You spend minutes listening to the sound of your breath, perplexed by the weight of your steps, watching your weight, too- no pun intended. Minutes that stay. You kill hours awash in curiosity- about your little human and life after…
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Continue reading →: When the mountain won’t move…
The story that I am about to tell you does not begin when we conceived or when the complications started 3months later. It begins on 20 March 2020 when I was referred for a scan owing to (not so severe) pelvic pains. I never went! One, because we had just…
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Continue reading →: When the tide gets high
Where to start? At 28 we get married, at 29 get our first child and at 30 we welcome twins. Wait, got pregnant again at 30 with twins or delivered them at 30? Haha, delivered them. I was that breastfeeding Mom still figuring out how to handle a baby then…
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Continue reading →: A day in time…
*** It started on one fine evening in the beginning of time; when the clock stood still for a moment and it occurred to me that this was THE one. He ticked every box (at least then) and it was clear in my head that this was the ‘IT’. Over…
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Continue reading →: Finding me more
Accepting reality means that you make the conscious choice to come to terms with reality for what it is, not by the memory of what you were before, and not by the dream of who you will be in the future…
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Continue reading →: A chance to life…
I would not want to be the Covid survivor next door giving people sleepless nights by endlessly retelling the chilling story of how scary the experience was and how I saw death glaring at me! Or the person who entirely centres conversations on facts of how deadly the disease is…
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Continue reading →: Mental health
What is mental health? In layman’s language, mental health is ‘that’ which defines whether our minds are in a dark place or at a good place. It follows, therefore, that our mental health status determines how we think, feel and act; and to a large extent, impacts how we handle…
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Continue reading →: Lessons from Covid timesIt still catches me by surprise that you found us worthy of being part of the generation that will live to tell the unadulterated tale of your time. Remember how it started? It was fear at first ear-hear. And rightfully so because ours was a troubled house. Locusts were upon…
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Continue reading →: 5 Little laws
It occurred to me that in marriage, there were laws beneath that had passed unnoticed; and laws that would never have made sense (in theory) because we have to live through them to comprehend…Here’s to both. The little law of flight landing This little law states that you can never…
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Continue reading →: Circles
The days are long, but the years are short! For some daft reason, I will start with an apology for ghosting you readers for most part of the year gone. Indeed, the days were long (extraordinaire); and before we knew it, the year gone. But was it that short? Mathematically…
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