Recklessly authentic.
No, not my mom. That would be disastrous. My mom's baby sister, Aunt SO is on Twitter, and that's almost as disastrous as my mom being on Twitter. If there's one thing I am always grateful for, it is the sense of humor in both sides of my family. Even when people are not trying to be funny, they're still funny.Last week, my aunt called me and told me that she has been seeing some things I've been writing on Twitter with the '@' sign. She wanted to know what I had done to her computer Read More
I was at the African store the other day when a Kenyan man walked in with his two children - a boy and a girl of about three and five years old respectively. There was a fridge stuffed with a variety of soft drinks. Naturally, the kids reached for the Fanta. There's something about the orange soft drink that makes it irresistible to kids (and sometimes adults, too). I vividly remember Fanta being my favorite drink as a child. Not much has changed since then. However, I Read More
I have been menstruating for the past decade (Hey! Don't try to calculate my age. I was a late bloomer!), and just when I thought I would never be rewarded for the gallons of blood I have lost and the combined hours of menstrual cramps I have endured, Always came in and changed my story.So, there I was, shopping for my favorite brand of pads - really, Always is the best! - when I spotted this on the box.This is the pad I always get - the overnight ultra thin - and I use it whether it's day or Read More
Remember how you used to wake up at 5:30am --- maybe 6:00am to take a shower, have breakfast, and rush off to school -- where your assignment(s) will be checked and graded? Remember how teachers blessed you with homeworks at the end of the school day? Remember how you had to go home and spend a couple of hours trying to figure out your homework --- especially that last number? Remember jacking studying for exams, hoping to ace it and get that special gift from mommy and/or daddy? Well, all Read More
I don't know what came over me on Sunday, but I was feeling unusually sexy when I woke up that morning. For church, I wore my tightest pencil skirt, a grey skirt. And I matched it up with a black three-quarter sleeve shirt. I was looking hot, if I do say so myself. Although compliments were not the reason I wore this outfit, it did, naturally, feel pretty darn good when I received tons of compliments, even from those in church.After church, I went for a get-together at an aunt's house, a Read More
