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February 7, 2018

When Funmie Dated My Boyfriends With Me

I've had the same friends for a very, very long time. And when you have the same friends for a long time, you also have a lot of memories. Like years ago when I'd meet a guy and we'd start talking on the phone, and I'd connect Funmie. She'd mute her phone and listen to our conversation all. Night. Long. Sometimes, she'd fall asleep and wake up on the phone and continue listening. This is the kind of leisure you have when there isn't a little person screaming your name. Ada Verastic, please warn Read More

February 5, 2018

January 31, 2018

And Just Like That, January Is Over

I remember toward the end of last year, I was desperate to enter 2018 already. For me, it was because 2017 had been quite a difficult year, but as of October 2017, I did not know that it was only going to get worse. And if someone had told me that the events that occurred last year would happen to me AND that I would emerge from the year stronger than when I entered it, I would have laughed hysterically because (1) things like that don't happen to me, and (2) there is no way something that Read More

January 29, 2018

Sweet Potatoes, Can I Know You?

So, this is one of the many things that I have been planning on doing but yet to do. However, in this 2018 that we have entered, I am ready to cross things off my list. The title of this post is a play on how Nigerian interviewers start their interviews by asking the interviewee, "Can we know you?" So in my case, I'd like to know you. Here's the idea: I have been blogging for years, and you know so much about me. I have shared so much of my life with you that I sometimes don't remember what I Read More

January 26, 2018

Nothing Teaches Motherhood Like Motherhood

I used to be one of those people: the ones who knew everything about motherhood and parenting without being a mother and a parent. In fact, I remember – with lots of shame and regret – that I once wrote a scathing piece about crying babies in churches, a post where I literally threatened to throw both the baby and its mother out of the church, although I wrote that sarcastically. But still ... Now that I am a mom, I look back at my non-mom self with pursed lips, judgmental eyes, and a Read More

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