I started watching House of Cards on Netflix earlier this year and I am already in the middle of season three just released. The ruthless Francis Underwood now as President of the United States has appropriated FEMA disaster funds to fund his pet project AmericaWorks thereby circumventing the law to get his way. In addition, […]
Happiness
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Truth
If you don’t believe it, no matter how many people tell you it is the truth, you have no reason to accept it. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/30/1361224/-Roald-Dahl-s-Heartbreaking-Take-on-Vaccines
Thoughts at 36
It is February 2nd. It’s not the day after the Super Bowl. It’s not the day Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow or not. It’s my birthday. I feel like nothing compared to the image of perfection I have manufactured and kept alive in my head. I’m not a mother. I’m not a wife. I’m not […]
Our Hypocritical World
I’ve been commenting all over my personal Facebook page this past week or so about the double standard the media takes in it’s approach to reporting the news. Like it’s something new, right? It all started when somebody, presumably a white supremacist, ie. local-bred American terrorist, exploded a bomb outside an NAACP office in Colorado […]
The Black Nod
Today, I was walking down one of the hospital halls and as I reached the intersection, a Black man who was walking by gave me The Nod and what seemed to be a peace sign. There was no one else behind me. Yes, I checked. I gave him a sort-of-nod back impulsively and wondered if […]
New Year Resolutions
My New Year Resolutions were to have no resolutions. My sixth day of the new year resolutions however are as follows: Read more non-fiction books. Eat more vegetables and less animal protein. Clean up the clutter in my life, physically & psychologically. Think twice before any purchase; spending diet time. Let it go!
Blown Tyre in a Morning Rush Hour
It’s rush hour Monday morning and I’m sitting in my car on the shoulder of the highway trying to gather my wits. I had driven about two hours to visit my mother after work Friday and spent the entire weekend indoors being plumped up…like I need plumping. It had just come naturally that I would […]
It’s All About Butts These Days
So I did not want to get into the discussion of Kim Kardarshian breaking the internet and the audacity or bravery thereof. But I can’t help myself. I am simultaneously amused and disgusted that the butt is having a pop culture moment. As the owner of a plump posterior and the wide hips and sturdy […]
Sankara’s Burkina Faso
Last week Thursday I got a Whatsapp message from a friend in Ghana. It said “Mayhem in Burkina Faso. So what’s wrong with our African leaders”. I had no clue what my friend was ranting about. Hours later when I got home, I learnt that there had been unrest in the Burkina Faso. Civilians had […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.