Category Archives: Words

Hurt Locker

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It smarts. It reeks. The quiet within the storm howling louder and louder, until the rain pours out and drenches and overflows and overwhelms. Pain comes from the unexpected, as layers are peeled back and the truth lays bare. As bare as the smacks trailing on an open back filled with sores and scabs. It […]

Birthday musings

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A new year I am stepping into, refreshed and hopeful, slightly tinged with trepidation at what these next 365 will bring… grateful for the spot of sunshine that brightens up my every day. Amazed at the spotlight of love in my son’s gaze, and pressed to give him the best of me. Quietest birthday ever […]

Untitled

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It’s weird. Seeing things unfold in slow motion, Puzzle pieces clicking into place, Showing you clearly how heartbreak will come. You hold your breath, turning blue, hope tearing up your insides. Doubts thumping against your chest, propped up by each puzzle piece secured. A new world this is, an unfamiliar playbook for a familiar pitch. […]

Confessions

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I am terrified of two things: Snakes. Dentists. And maybe not necessarily in that order. But the gap between the two is quite skinny. I was about 11 years old when my mother took me to a dentist in downtown Nairobi. I thought we were headed to one of those back-alley salons where radio-shows ring […]

Lost and Found

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So, I thought I’d lost you. Somewhere between dried up tears and choked up bitterness, I thought I’d lost you. That smile that was never fully freed and that laugh that always fell short… made me think you were gone. I couldn’t remember your name and I could barely recall your face… That face that […]

Roller Coasters

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I don’t do well with emotional roller coasters. I also don’t do well with real life ones, either. For the emotional ones, the unforgiving combination of my wild imagination and a ready-to-go slideshow of all the heartbreaks and disappointments that paint the walls of my memory only serve to stoke the flames of what-if’s that […]