Yes, yet another milk chocolate review. Hey, I have no shame for preferring milk chocolate. It can be just as delicious, just as pretentious, and just as divine as dark chocolate. This is an English chocolate with blended caramel, Welsh sea salt and floral notes. It’s very milky. I could easily eat (and enjoy) the […]
It’s 12/12/12. So What?
Well nothing really, aside from this being the last repeating number date of the century! I partied like it’s 1999 in college in 1999 and survived the Y2K scare of the Millennium that had us thinking all computer systems would shut down on 12/31/1999. I actually spent the Christmas holidays and Wintersession that year in […]
Ghana’s Presidential Election 2012 – What’s so novel?
Ghana held elections this past Friday, December 7th 2012 with extended voting into Saturday, December 8th to accommodate technical problems with biometric voting. The current president, John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who became president of Ghana in July after the unexpected death of President John Atta Mills was re-elected president with […]
Talking about “One Day I Too Go Fly”
A Ghanaian-Ukranian friend of mine who came from Ghana to attend MIT, one of our “sibling schools”, is in the process of directing a “coming of age documentary about young Africans on a quest for knowledge at an elite American university”. It chronicles the life of five students from Tanzania, Zambia, Nigeria, Rwanda and Zimbabwe […]
Desperate for marriage
No. Not I. Kenya Moore as portrayed on The Real Housewives of Atlanta (RHOA). I say portrayed because I refuse to believe these shows aren’t staged. Disclaimer alert! I don’t follow RHOA. Truly, I don’t. But this weekend I found myself watching a few back-to-back episodes on Bravo. All these ladies are wrong on one […]
My Turn To Weigh in on Obama’s Win
Growing up in East Germany, Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher were my world leaders. I knew nothing about them and their politics yet I liked each one. Bush Senior was a blur and Clinton was memorable only because I was living in Ghana at the time of his first win (1992) and a lot of Ghanaian […]
Of plantains & goat meat
It’s been raining non-stop for the past few days. I’m irritable and yearning for comfort food. A plate of fried plantain would really hit the spot.Unfortunately, I’ve run out of stock of my frozen seasoned plantain.Life here is such that whenever I come across a bounty of plantain, I need to save a few. But […]
Commitment issues
I have never really had to commit. Not commit commit you know. Not that I can’t commit to something. Obviously I can. I’ve committed to toughing out four years of college plu four more years of medical school plus five more years of residency/fellowship training, right? I have committed to toughing it out in a […]
Random sorrowness of life
I have previously blogged my growing dissatisfaction with my life as it is here, here, and here. It all started here. This year has been an intensive exercise in attitude adjustment. It’s been a real struggle to stay positive. In any case, I want to talk about physicians today. I’m truly disappointed with my lot. […]
San Diego Sights
Beautiful sunset over San Diego skyline as seen from Coronado Island I attended IDWeek in San Diego last week and was able to take in a few sights, enjoy a few eats, and mingle with the brightest and best in infectious disease. I wouldn’t trade being an infectious disease physician for any other medical specialty! […]
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.