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Mar 8, 20187 min read
Life Served Me a Lemon
Growing up in the dusty countryside of Kenya was fun and typical for girls of my age in the early 1990s. Life was blissful. Sometimes I...
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Feb 23, 20188 min read
The Slum Life
The north is prosperous while most of the south is impoverished. We lived on the southern side of the province. My family was immensely...
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Feb 23, 20186 min read
Here I Am, Smiling and Hopeful Again
It seemed that loss followed me wherever I went. Life kept throwing me curve-balls, but I tried not to stay down for long. I learned that...
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Feb 9, 20185 min read
A Warrior, Not a Worrier
But thoughts of death don’t just go away. They linger like the plague. They interject themselves at every turn and persuade you that life...
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Feb 1, 20184 min read
The Pursuit of the Better
“Good life is expensive. There is a cheaper one, but it’s not life,” my parents used to say. It might not sound literally correct, but...
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Jan 26, 20187 min read
Life Is a Beautiful Struggle
One might think that may have become an obstacle for me; luckily, that has not, or not yet. Coming from a community where majority of the...
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Dec 21, 20174 min read
When Everything Falls on You
Even though my parents got divorced when I was in kindergarten, they ended on such good terms that there was not too much struggle for me...
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Dec 6, 20174 min read
An Open Life
Sometimes being yourself is not easy, not at all. It took quite a while for me to be open with myself, to admit that I was attracted to...
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Aug 2, 20176 min read
Worth the Wait
I was always worried about finding the right person for me. I was scared I would never meet my soulmate or I would miss my chance with...
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Jul 27, 20175 min read
A Soul of Freedom
I don’t want to hide who I am. I have never been ashamed of what I was, or how I wanted to live my life. The only thing I have ever been...
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Jul 13, 20175 min read
Family Matters Most
My family is everything to me. I don’t know how to describe our relationship as anything other than that. My whole life, they have always...
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Jun 23, 20176 min read
My Journey: from Siberia, Russia to Ohio, US
The revolutions started a few years later, leading to the collapse of the Soviet empire and the rise of the Russian Federation. The early...
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Jun 8, 20177 min read
A Journey of Searching
I have always felt like I am chasing something. I could never really explain what it is. I just have this feeling that I am after...
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Jun 7, 20175 min read
A Place Called Home
I grew up as a child of the world. Nowhere was home because for nearly my entire childhood, everywhere was home. My parents’ work kept...
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