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The one about the very many difficult firsts

It’s 4.14am today, April 13 and I am tired of thinking sleep is the escape I need from the reality of what today means to me and my family. I decided instead to write out my emotions. Writing has always been my outlet. My life up till date has been divided into two distinct parts; life before September 23, 2023 and life after then. That was the day I got the tragic news of my sister’s passing and something changed in me forever since then. I don’t know what it is but I feel it everyday I take a breath or look in the mirror. Life after September 23 has come with a lot of firsts. The first Christmas without…

The one about music, art and friends.

Hi guys, how have you been? Hope you have gotten yourself in the mood for the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas and the end of the year activities generally has a way of making me forget momentarily about life's woes and concentrate on the good things, good tidings as it is said. Listening to carols are one of my highlights of this time of the year. I am a sucker for good music and I appreciate the fact that carols are consistent and warm, like a big hug from your favourite person. Speaking about music, Nigerian artistes have been generous to us with great music this year and I love to see it. One of my favourite songs…

Girl Facing Pier

The one about unusual self-care

It's been forever and I know. I will be the first to admit to my lack of accountability on the blog posts goals I set for myself this year. Things have been pretty intense and when I finally decided to blog again, I discovered that I didn't renew my website service subscription and someone bought my domain name. The said person then requested that I buy it back for 400 Queen Elizabeth Pounds! When Tems sang about crazy things happening, my good sister did not tell a single lie. What is important is that I am back like I never left and I intend to do better as a blogger and an adult in smashing my goals, so help me…

The one about the road to love

I knew I wanted to write about love to commemorate Valentine’s Day but I had no idea what to write. The subject of romantic love is so extensive that one could write for hours and not exhaust half of it. To help me streamline my thoughts, I put out a post on my Instagram stories to ask my friends to select from a list of topics I had on my radar. Interestingly, everyone had different ideas on what they wanted me to write about, there was no majority vote on any of the topics. I have thus decided to see if I can touch a bit on every of them and maybe have a part 2 if this post becomes…

The one about 2020, the year we were not warned about.

Omoooo * 10,000,000. Now now now, someone should have at least given us the heads up that Lucifer was going to find love and use the universe to entertain his girlfriend in 2020. If you do not get my reference, check this out ad by Ryan Reynolds, who by the way is one of my favorite Hollywood actors. His dark humour is topnotch. The year 2020 is the year I cried the most silent tears as an adult. It started a few days after my birthday when I woke up partially blind, I could not see in one eye. I called my sister and told her not to panic but she definitely panicked more than I did. I was home…

The one about life and its curveballs.

I woke up on Saturday around noon expecting to have a normal day of bingeing on K-drama, sadly it was not to be so because the first thing I saw was the news of Chadwick Boseman’s passing. My first reaction was denial, I figured if I did not think about it then I would not have to mourn yet another person I did not know personally. You see, my first time of experiencing what I have termed this “third party grief” was when Mrs. Ibidunni Ighodalo died. I had never seen her before or even followed her closely on social media. She was just someone I liked a lot and respected from afar. It was shocking to me how much…

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