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Is it just me or has there been a recent influx in the number of posts/videos of people giving women all kinds of advice about what men can and cannot do? For example, I read a long rant the other day (from a woman oh!) saying that women who post fondly about their husbands on social media are basically to be blamed for their husband's cheating because writing about their husbands made them (the husbands) appealing to other women. And then today, there's this one. Usually, when I hear Read More
A while ago, I promised that I would give more blogging tips, so here we are today with five ways to invest in your blog right now. This post is for the bloggers and aspiring bloggers who want to take their blogs to the next level. If you are blogging just for fun, then you don't have to jump through these hoops. Okay, so a little bit of a back story for those who might be reading this blog for the first time. I started blogging in 2006, and I - like many others - was doing it just for fun. Read More
I read this on Facebook a few minutes ago. Then after I read it on one person's page, it kept coming up in my feed. So I googled it, and here we are. This is the story of Maria Okoh, a 70-year-old widow and resident of Amaudo Nkpoghoro village, in Afikpo North Local Government Area in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. The story is that Mrs. Okoh was caught having sex by her grand-daughter who had stopped by to drop off some food. Mrs. Okoh was having sex with her 30-year-old lover. Her Read More
My husband left me in 1975. Told me he needed space. What did I do I find if with a 14 and he left me for her. I got upset applied for divorce married another person day after my divorce. It has been 41 years to this person but i still want my first husband back. Am I crazy. I dream about him. I love him so much and I dream about him all the time. Should I tell him this? My dear, I'm not completely understanding your email. It sounds like you're saying that your husband left you for a Read More
Igwe and I are always having all kinds of conversation about everything. The other day, we were discussing Nigerian food. I love Nigerian food. I love cooking it, and I love eating it. But I don't love taking it to work. Let me be more specific. I don't mind taking certain Nigerian foods to work, like almost any kind of rice (fried, jolof, white, etc), and I don't mind taking foods like egg stew and/or spicy spinach mix. But I have never taken food like pounded yam and egusi soup or Read More
