Life Lessons

Lately I’ve been thinking of the word exposure and what it means, because we all have a different understanding of what it means based on our situations, personal or otherwise. But first, let me let you in on something I find quite…

I have never felt as suffocated by social media as I have these past few weeks. My friends believe that I am the full on social media junkie, and perhaps it’s because I share a lot of what I am up to or what’s on my mind. I am an over…

For 3 years now, I have been on a quest to understand my family and its origins. It all started when I asked my grandmother to show me the personal belongings of Gabriel Ngigi, my grandfather who died before I was born. Among the things she…

Last week I was battling a crazy flu that had me down for a moment. The kind that makes you forget what your life was like pre-flu and you fondly miss it and promise yourself that once you get better, you will appreciate being healthy a…

Earlier this week, can’t remember which day, I was busy getting ready for work and there was a statement that kept ringing in my head, “Some fear is transmitted.” I even wanted to tweet just that, but after some thought, I figured that this…

A good friend of mine reached out to me the other day and asked me whether I had ever written about wives taking on their husbands’ surname after the wedding. To be honest, I haven’t written anything on marriage, save for our wedding day,…

I had started telling you the tale of my genesis to self-realignment. It was a bit of a lengthy post, which I hope you managed to read through. How I got to recognize the concept of realignment, because it was quite a foreign term…

I always admire people who still maintain an element of childishness. Life is too serious, too tough, to always take everything personally. A lot of my recent inspiration has come from observing some key traits from my younger days or…

If there’s one thing I really value, and I mean really value, is having conversations with people. And not just regular conversations, the kind that leaves someone feeling like their story is just as significant as the next persons or the…

I believe that each one of us has the capacity to be happy and most times we suppress it whether consciously or subconsciously, because life. That the anger that dwells in us or that we display is just us expressing our frustration with…