A girl can dream

I want to cut my hair. Start all over again. Give up on a 15year old relationship. Find a new love. Maybe I’ll join the naturalistas. Maybe I’ll join the head wrap bandwagon. Maybe I’ll just buy a wig. Or maybe I’ll just walk around hairless. But the bottom point is, I want to cut

STORIES

“I’m making this for my son in primary school. I sell one bag for two thousand shillings and he has arrears of six thousand, so that is three bags. No he is not in a private school; he is in a public school. Their teachers insisted on having private tuition even after the government banned

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Jesus died for me, that I understood from when I was young. He died to take away my sins. I got born again on the eighteenth of October 2003. I was eight years old by then. I did not completely understand all this salvation business but what I knew was enough to make the little

KISII

Aunt Joyce Moraa She makes the word resilient seem like an understatement when describing her. Living 50bob away from Cheblat town her home is the last of Kisii land for the rest is inhibited by Kalenjins. Entering her house, one feels this embrace of welcome-home-child just from the cool atmosphere exuded by the yet to

WHAT IF..

What if God asked me today to name one thing that I want Him to give me? The most obvious answer would be wisdom simply because King Solomon paved the way for us regarding that direction. But what if I chose to also be creative and honest with myself, that I should not choose that

you are not a bad person

You are not a bad person. In fact your mother’s prayers worked which is why you finished school without any pregnant lady moving in with you in a manner likely to suggest that you are the father of the baby. You even got a job for yourself to add sugar to the injury (or whatever

HOW TO HEAR FROM GOD by Joyce Meyer

  This book got me thinking a lot. When I began reading it I thought she would give me a formula about hearing from God. In her books, she constantly says “God said to me, God directed me to do ab cd, etc”. And so I always wished that my relationship with God would be

WHO AM I

Today I got a two out of twenty in a cat. Obviously that is not good marks, okay we cannot even use the word good when describing that performance. Below poor marks, I guess that understatement describes it best. Contrary to expected reactions, I was proud of myself. I mean, in an economics cat with

Cliché

I do not like crowd mentalities. Give me a thinking supported by many and I will show you some flaw in it. Which is part of the reason why I do not follow fashion, I hate sporting someone else with the exact same type of dress that I have worn. Neither do I subscribe to

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT ME AND HIM WERE FRIENDS.

I always thought me and Him were friends. In our conversations I would try and be sincere as possible. No secrets between us. I would tell him everything. We were friends, so no need to be ashamed of anything. Plus after all he knows everything about me. I’m just doing the formal part. I would