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 boom, pregnant again. And just…
*** 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 the next many months, I…
Welcome on-board and once again- congratulations on your new role. Be it a promotion at work, a switch of careers or organizations or you are kick-starting your career. While this can be a very exciting experience, it comes with a lot of anxiety and uncertainties and here’s why… You will have moments of immense self-doubt.…
He had the type of face one could easily forget even when looking at it. But he also had a manly demeanor that intrigued her. For the next couple of months after meeting (in no manner that called for tea to tell), she found herself mesmerized by this manly-yet paradoxical-demeanor. He was neither polite nor…
...I think in life, there are no misplaced steps…..we need all of them
I miss her in big portions. Some days more than others 😦 ! *** Before our birthdays nowadays, we (generation Y and Z kids) have this thing we call #birthdaymonth and #birthdayweek. I tell you this because July was my birthday month and 9th July 2018 was the beginning of my birthday week. My grandmother…
The experiences here may be personal, but the truths are universal. For the girls waiting on their men, the girlfriends trying to keep their men, the married women tolerating their men, the divorcees who got fed up with their men; and the hopelessly enamored who can’t get enough of their men… For our men, the…
In the village where I was born and raised, being 25 was synonymous to ‘when I grow up’. After 25, therefore, the script was meant to change from ‘when I grow up I want to be XYZ’ to ‘I am that person I used to dream about’. There is the general delusion that between 25…
I second guessed myself on so many occasions, put stop signs on uncountable instances but still walked through; only certain of my uncertainty. And then one day I came across this brainy quote- that great people do things before the are ready. They do things before they know that they can even do it…
Confession! Number 8 was reserved. But I have taken it for me. Not myself really, let’s call it a note from the editor in chief-ess. When I heard the first Christmas Carole on the last day of November, it hit me that the baby in 2017 had grown to old age real quick and would…
