It’s been two years down the line; battling a pandemic so vile it upset the entire human race, and forced its strange way of life onto us. On the first year (2020), we held on to a little hope in the midst of rampage. Some made gains. On the second year (2021), hope grew stronger. … Read more
Bitter, sour and insufferable lemons turned into a favorable cocktail of lemonade. No catchphrase on Earth best captures the notion of turning life’s burdens, pains, frustrations and stresses – call them unpleasantries, into something bearing some ‘positive energy,’ than this: “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” If only lemonade grew on trees in the … Read more
The moment you step into an extravaganza (just a fancy word for an event), and you’re met with an exquisite glamorous ambience, an unearthly thrill overtakes you. The thrill is stubborn to its assignment. It will bolt down into the depths of the ganglia, awakening your nerves to a different world – the sensual world. … Read more
Milk and honey. Unadulterated handiworks of nature. Snow-white and sugar-brown in color, milk and honey make a perfect case for the ultimate sophistication of sheer plainness. Even though nature itself is a multiverse of color; with up to ten million shades the human eye can perceive, some of nature’s members would rather stick to one … Read more
For sticklers, from a stickler for funny! Carrot juice. Say that again. Carrot juice. Uh, wait, no! Carrot and juice? Or juice and carrot? The twist ain’t helping. There’s not a flick of sense yet. Not a good combo Carrot and juice make a foggy impression together. It feels more like a hyped innovation. The … Read more
There’s a good reason for which the tongue was made without a bitsy bit of bone, a linguistic reason to be specific. Well, for starters, if it had a bone, the tongue wouldn’t have been capable of creating the diverse array of languages we know today. Yea, I don’t think it would have gone beyond … Read more
On Thika Road, in the full glare of the tropical sun. Between the lanes, enclosed by the guardrails, the ground was bare and uninspiring, and the road on its sides so dark, lean and annoyingly redundant. It was miles on miles of tarmac and guardrail, save for occasional signs and cameras. The road was at … Read more
Nature at its core is a conjugate of tiny versions of itself; call them mini-natures, or miniatures for the love of words. Nature chooses to begin from the smallest of scales, building up intricate bonds and connections to form bigger versions of itself. Consider us, humans, we’re just myriads and myriads of tiny elementary particles … Read more
Unlike times of recent, there was a time when life revolved around propagation of family lines, when the most important thing for a man was to marry, for a woman to get married and together raise an offspring. What a life! Family kept bloodlines running across generations; it was a conduit for continuity and preservation … Read more
Here is a sure fact the books won’t tell: a good number of Kenyans have had an unpleasant encounter with a matatu tout, at least once or severally in their lives. Who in this country hasn’t almost been run down by a mob of touts, each trying to whisk you into their own matatu? Who … Read more