ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME “Turn your magic on, to me she’d say, Everything you want is a dream away, We are legends, every day, That what she told *me” COLDPLAY It’s natural to reflect on the year past on this day. A year that seemed to carry more heaviness…

There is something about the first breath you take as you land at an airstrip or drive through the myriad of gates that open to the vast savannah of Kenya’s Masaai Mara. That first breath is deeper than usual, like a gulping in the hope that you can expand something…

“Lost, in a snow filled sky, We’ll make it alright to come undone” DURAN, DURAN TERM 2 We scrape through that first term — all of us learning so much about one another and ourselves. Picking him up to come home after that term was easy. His spirits high, me…

“Who do you need? Who do you love? When you come undone” DURAN, DURAN TERM 1 — DROP OFF I never understood what people meant when they said that grief comes in waves. I got the metaphor, but the feeling? — not so much. I get it now. In making…

HONESTLY OK? “On a different day if I was safe in my own skin Then I wouldn’t feel lost and so frightened But this is today and I’m lost in my own skin” DIDO I have been pondering thoughts about my personal growth journey. This song has felt like the…

SHAME, SHAME — POPPY SHAME…. Shame is a word that has been ruminating over and over in my heart space for the last few months. I have spent a lot of time thinking about the power that one word has over our lives and continues to have over mine. I…

#ALL-BLACK LIVES MATTER I live in a country where most of our population is black. If anything, I am considered the minority here. I can’t speak to the truly systemic racism that the world is witnessing through the real life, online murders of black people in America. Maybe it’s because…

300 Kenyan Shillings is the equivalent is 3 US dollars. Let me tell you how I spend this money in my day-to-day. For up to this amount I can get 1 litre of milk, a couple of loaves of fresh white no brand bread, maybe 1kg of rice, at my…

“ Oh, we’ve got to hold on, ready or not You live for the fight when it’s all that you’ve got Woah, we’re half way there Woah, livin’ on a prayer” BON JOVI Granted — this song really isn’t about COVID but seriously I feel like it speaks to the…