Can you usually tell when a funk is imminent? This week I could tell from a mile that a funk was on the way and even not blogging is a sign of it. It is not that I have nothing to blog about, even churning this one out has taken a lot. I am all… Read More I’ve Got the Funk

Do you allow yourself to dream? I don’t mean the dreams that come to us as we sleep. I mean dreams of how you want things to be. How you want to see yourself. What you want for yourself. That kind of thing. If you do dream, what are they about? Are they true to… Read More Dream on Dreamer

There are days when things go well. There are days when things don’t go well. There are mornings I wake up and realise that the day will suck. There are nights I start falling asleep with the knowledge that the sleep won’t be satisfactory. There are days when I am brimming with all the joy… Read More Losing Control

I want to sleep and wake up feeling refreshed. I want to have hope. I want this lactose intolerance to magically disappear so I can eat pizza without worrying that I’d get sick. I want to learn how to ride a motorcycle. I want to be able to enter a store and get cute things… Read More Things I Want

I often go back to this post on tumblr because it really captures what most of us are thinking. We will die. Capitalism is killing us faster. It makes us sicker. Prices of things are increasing at a faster rate than the income we are able to generate (for most of us). And yet. And… Read More 99 Problems

Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning the existing state of affairs, particularly with regard to social or political issues. Let us agree that as Kenyans, when it comes to our country and it’s politics, we tolerate the status quo, are content in it even. How else do we explain how people are lining up… Read More Tolerating the Status Quo