Considering that today is July 28th, am I allowed to say welcome to July? This journal is supposed to be about how my June went, but because it's the end of July, I have forgotten everything that happened in June. I didn't really do anything special, and I don't even remember how my social calendar went. It's the craziest thing. Apart from the heat trying to melt me, I don't seem to remember what else happened. Perhaps, the heat melted all my memories away. I'm already getting ready to Read More
So … We Rushed Ada Verastic To The Emergency
My people, I almost had a heart attack. Let me tell you what happened! It was before Igwe traveled to Nigeria for a couple of weeks. On the night it happened, Igwe and Ada Verastic went to bed at about the same time, while I stayed up in the living room writing. It was past 1:00 AM, and I had just shut down my laptop when Igwe came out to the living room with Ada Verastic. He said she had woken up crying, so I told him to go back to bed while I fed her. I warmed her milk and attempted to feed Read More
Will Your Body Be Back To What It Was Before Pregnancy?
That's an expensive question, and I don't really know the answer. In my experience, I though I knew more about motherhood before I became a mother. That's because before I became a mom, I thought I knew so much and understood so much. The reality, however, is that until you actually become a mom, you just cannot know what it feels like or what challenges you may face. Sure, you may say (like me) that you took care of or spent a lot of time with [insert random baby relative here]. In my case, it Read More
Culture That Kills: He’s Paid To Have Sex With Children
I remember one old Nollywood movie I watched years ago starring Patience Ozokwor (where is she these days?), and in the movie, she and her friend (I think) had hired a man who was fondly known as Eleven-Eleven to sleep with her friend (or was it her friend's daughter) and make her pregnant to have not just any child, but a boy. The movie was supposed to be comedic relief. And it was --- until you started thinking deeply about why we (Nigerians) generally see more value in boy babies than in Read More
4 Reasons Why Kim Kardashian Should In Fact Keynote BlogHer16
Yesterday, BlogHer broke the blogging internet by telling us that Kim Kardashian will be keynoting the BlogHer16 conference next month. Honestly, my first reaction was ugh ... why Kim Kardashian? Two years ago, there was Kerry Washington, and last year, there was Ava DuVernay, and this year, my biggest excitement has been Mayim Bialik because ... Amy Farrah Fowler. But then I thought about it some more and I thought, hmmm, there's a lot I could learn from her actually. Kim is an incredibly Read More