My First Crush….

Write about your first crush. Who knew that visiting my aunt that holiday would bring me face to face with what I imagined to have been the love of my life. Hahaha what a stroke of pure serendipity. I didn’t really have a type yet, well because I had never been with anyone else. Being

It’s time….

I woke up with this song in my heart and in my mind, and to be honest with you I woke up with hope. Ed Sheeran made a beautiful album 7 years ago and within this album a song that resonated and still resonates with me today, the song is called “SAVE MYSELF”. So it

A new day?… A chance…

For months For years, on and off. Lets start again, and start by saying… For a while now, years, I have been in what seems to be a perpetual cycle of depression and most recently for months now I have been in what has felt like the fight of my life and I seem to

Music

What fears have you overcome and how? Fear is one of the most primal emotions, so extremely vexatious but key to our survival as humans; triggering our fight or flight response. Fight mostly for me but… Yup, FEAR. The scariest thing I have ever done was give birth, scared me straight. I did it thrice.

Oh.. My… Knickers!!!!

I thought I was low key overweight until today. Today I saw my knickers in their full glory on the clothes line and all I can say is OMG!! This is not to say I have never seen them before but today, today I saw them, like really saw them. I could make a skirt

Rock bottom

I used to think I was a regular in this place people often referred to as “Rock bottom”,until now. There was a time when my world was falling apart for me financially and I could barely afford to put food on the table, I was miserable and was plagued with the idea that I had

I don’t

How do you balance work and home life? I drink to stand work. Then I work to afford to drink

What next?

For a while now, a very long while, I have been waking up and telling myself “Today is a new day, today we start again and make it count”. This ritual tends to happen Mondays, like today, I woke up and convinced myself that today was going to be a new day, today I was

Here we are….

So when I started this journey I wanted to talk about the journey of my life, navigating through marriage and what I have learned and hope to teach others walking the same path of marriage. I always find myself asking myself about what business I have being a feminist and being married, then I remind

Unpacking “the” daddy issues (Part Three)

One thing I will tell you. Wait…. That doesn’t sound right. “One of many things” I will tell you about my father is that he was the one who taught me about who I was, my heritage. My totem is Nhari unendoro, Nyamasvisva, the women whom which are referred to as Chihoro. It is said