I fired my BFF
Its an ironic statement If she was my BFF she would still be there. The truth is, I wanted her gone. I was tired of her. Plain and simple. The break up happened unceremoniously over a quick online chat...
View ArticleHeart Muscles
Its been a tough 2 weeks. News upon news has tested my strength and sanity. There has been revelations, truths, confessions, daunting realizations and explosions upon explosions of information cutting...
View ArticleSave our girls| Stop the slavery
I think it was a Tuesday morning some 3 weeks ago, when a series of photos landed on my phone. A nameless girl has taken screen shots of a conversation between an assistant minister and a member of...
View Article50 were shot and killed last night
There is a load of hate going around. There is a sick load of comparisons and competition centered around hate with the center being who is hated most. Black people, white people or homosexuals? We...
View ArticleShould I post a nude pic on twitter?
When I was 12, I became important. I became important because my 6th grade teacher, decided to pay attention to me for the first time in my early schooling years. She noticed that I had special talents...
View ArticleThe perfect cup of tea
I have an awesome relationship with food. If living is loving and feeding is giving for living then eating is love making and I love to eat. I love to eat so much that when I get full, I go through...
View ArticleStress, pimples and turmeric tea
The second in a series of tea related posts follows the song ‘Everybody’s Free-Wear sunscreen’ by Baz Luhrmann (below) The song is an amalgamation of songs but the speech touches on a point that...
View ArticleBotswana| 50 years of none confidence
50 years ago when Seretse Khama walked the 2km tarred road to independence post a small election he had no way of knowing that his son, then approximately 13 would walk the country into its 50th...
View ArticleLearning to be happy…with myself
I cannot afford my life. I cant move out. I need a new car. My PC needs to be replaced. My business has no clients. I have no money, I am broke. I cant. My hands are tied. I want to. I want that. I...
View ArticleCayenne pepper tea
Life is a right mess right now. After what seemed like a harmless convo with my lil bro, I found myself in rent debt and out of a home. It seems that my time had run out. 2 days later, same bro was on...
View ArticleThis breaks my heart
I don’t think I love my parents enough. And this breaks my heart. I wince when they call because I know that they will ask me for a favour. Not that they do not deserve to have their every wish...
View ArticleTurns out, that was not the only dry spell
Its been some months. The writers block has set in. Caked my creative juices. Tums out, that was not the only dry spell I was under. Over the Christmas holidays, I had the pleasure of spending...
View ArticleLet the racists race
‘Its a free world’ Ever since Trump came into office the discussion on an all white america has been given a voice amplified by mainstream media. People are taken aback when the racist remarks from...
View ArticleHow to survive a racial attack| #Gugism
When I was 10, my sister made a mockery of my sensitive self. I was a subject of amusement to her because she loved to make me cry. It did not understand why it was that when I reported her abuse to my...
View ArticleBitter sweet victory
This time…I decided never to go back I was with mom when my brother moaned about having me over for the week. He wanted some time alone. I have no Idea when I went from being a house mate, to being an...
View ArticleFighting to love freely
I am looking for the approval of a person that will never give me one. The idea here, is to have what I want without offending her. Without sounding petulant, without throwing a tantrum pressing my...
View ArticleThe final installment of Gugielkind
It’s been a while and I am going to ramble on without a definite structure only because I need to close this chapter in my life. When I last wrote; I was going through tremendous change, I was...
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