Life and Farewells

My nephew Josh is one of the most interesting people in my life. Unlike his sister who is passionate about music, instruments and being a charismatic individual, he is intensely…

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This is How it Ends

There's an emotional scene in Money Heist Season 5 where Tokyo gets cornered by the enemy.  She is then shot at. Afterwards, she plunges into a deep state of self-reflection…

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Remembering Eddy

Eddy passed on two days before the Christmas of 2020. It was just before dawn, according to police reports. He was found lying lifeless by a stranger somewhere in the…

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Help is on the way

We are our choices, a great person once said. I struggle to remember who it was but I won’t fall into the trap of passing it off as Shakespeare’s. It…

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A Fly to Infinity

Remember Sanga? The friend I wrote about here last year? (Q and A with Mwangolo Sanga). I had a long conversation with him two days ago in which he dispassionately…

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And Many More…

When it clocks midnight today, I will be a year older. For two decades and a year or so, I have been on a journey that has been largely characterized…

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Stuck at the Edge

My name is Maxwell but my friends call me Max. Or at least that’s what I used to be called when I had friends. The life that I have known…

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