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Continue reading →: A letter to my crush 💌
Dear crush, Gosh, how do l even begin this???! I know what l want to say l just don’t know how. But let me start with when we spent that Sunday together many months ago. During that time on Sunday, l didn’t realize l was crushing on you until Monday…
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Continue reading →: Time Of the Month…
I think if there’s anything that we as women can fully agree on is that periods suck. That thing is the pits! I always try to comfort myself that I have it better than other women, which is true, but it still doesn’t make it suck any less. I can’t…
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Continue reading →: Idlozi liyaphakelwa: acknowledging my ancestors
Edit Post Preview(opens in a new tab)Add titleIdlozi liyaphakelwa: acknowledging my ancestors “You are the latest version of your Ancestors. Within your DNA exists their consciousness”. – Dalian Adofo This post is based on the value of cultivating high regard for our elders which is one of the common values…
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Continue reading →: A letter to my unborn child
See, amongst many things that I want and wish for in my life, being a mother is one of them. As flawed up as I am, I want to mother a whole human being. I actually don’t know why I haven’t, oh wait, sis is a broke mf…but we move.…
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Continue reading →: Let’s play: TRUTH OR DARE
Greetings dear readers! For this week I had a pretty serious issue I wanted to share my 2 cents on but after much deliberation with relevant stakeholders, the topic was taken off the table and I decided let’s play the famous TRUTH OR DARE game. Exciting! I will truthfully answer…
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Continue reading →: P.D.A and other love languages
So, there’s something called love languages. And according to Gary Chapman, there are five of them: words of affirmation, Acts of service, Receiving gifts, Quality time, and Physical touch. These love languages describe the way we feel loved and appreciated. And from that, this is how my love language is…
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Continue reading →: What I would do if I won the lottery today…
Here I am, a big time winner…now what to do? First thing I would do is get pregnant. The only thing stopping me from having a baby right now is money. With the little money I make at the moment I am only able to buy gin and lemonade. Okay…
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Continue reading →: GUEST POST: THE STRANGE ECHOES (A POEM )
Hi, it’s Saturday and again, (as it has been for the past two Saturdays and the next) this is a guest post by Mthulisi Ndlovu aka King KG. Today he blessed us with a poem he co-authored with one Lenet Beden of Kenya. The piece is a metaphorical expressions and…
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Continue reading →: What being born into my family means
Being born into the families that we are born into does influence how one lives their lives. This is in terms of many things but this post mainly has to do with the emotional side of it. Allow me to digress a bit, today (the 12th of August) is my…
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Continue reading →: Response versus Reaction: a guest post
Be fired up with #KingKG Drawing a clearly cut boundary between two or more closely related practical phenomenons is one of the so not obvious abilities that everyone masters from birth. The ability to strike a balance in identifying the slight difference in synonyms, is one of the greatest charismatic…
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