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Jun 6, 20215 min read
The Iron Lady
Over time, I learned to see the good with the bad in my mother. From what I remember, my mother was...
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Nov 12, 20196 min read
Broken Shackles
It often feels like an unbearable privilege to write and make a simple living from taking all those wonderful and horrible patterns...
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Oct 23, 20197 min read
Even in the Darkest Moments
Growing up, I’ve noticed that many people, especially men, think they are entitled to a lot from a woman. They think they have the right...
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Sep 6, 20197 min read
What Is Praiseworthy
For the first few years of my life, all my immediate family lived in a low-income, one-roomed apartment in the city within a close-knit...
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Aug 22, 20198 min read
Bed of Thorns
A bunch of wildflowers left my hands and dropped upon his grave. It was clear that the goodbyes were final. I was burying my husband...
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Jul 29, 20198 min read
A Misfit’s Redemption
I knew my peers, for we had been playing football in the streets since we could walk. Just as any normal kid would, I settled...
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May 23, 20197 min read
To Dream Greatly
Ever since I can remember, I listened to the stories and news on the radio, longing to be part of the airwaves. I toyed with the idea...
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Jan 3, 20198 min read
Gone Astray
While watching my mother work so hard, I wanted a better bargain at life, a new city and with new destiny. Nothing—I had decided—would...
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Dec 8, 20187 min read
Tilling a New Path
My mother took the highway and never looked back, not even at me! My father was left to care for me alone and since he lacked childcare...
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Dec 4, 20187 min read
Killer Passion
Nothing is as exhilarating as feeling the wind against your face on a speeding motorbike. It’s a power only the rider controls. I thought...
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Oct 30, 20186 min read
Tackling Happiness
As a boy, I was enamored by my father’s sharp business suits and his title of a lawyer. While I looked up to him, I did so at a distance...
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Aug 31, 20186 min read
What Was Missing
My mother was still a student when she had me and literally had to take her final exams with me crying my lungs out next to her...
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Aug 10, 20187 min read
From Love, Life Abounds
September 1, 2017. To many this was just another day; but for me, it was my last day as a “Ms.” The next day, I was going to say “I do...
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Jul 30, 20189 min read
Fighting for a Purpose
I survived 16 years of military life through premonition, an instinctive survival gift that enabled me to make life saving decisions for...
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Jul 3, 20188 min read
Beyond My Mistakes
Each one of us has a story. Mine is a tale of a woman who was able to achieve her dreams because of the people along the way. If others...
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Jun 1, 20186 min read
Forever Faithful: A Passion for Dogs
In my home country of Kenya, it is not common for people to have dogs as pets. They are often used for protection or as working dogs...
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May 14, 20187 min read
A Man on a Mission
Living life and fully enjoying it needs both a deliberate tact and perseverance. As long as you have a will, no mountain peak will ever...
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Apr 13, 20188 min read
Rising Above
When it appears that the world is trying to destroy you, you have two options. You can let it, or you can fight back. Even in times when...
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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 5, 20186 min read
Rising to Breathe Again
All the dreams he shared with me, paying my tuition fee and giving me hope in life, were gone. My future became bleak...
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