My Dog is gone and I’m nervous
Dear Duke,It never occurred to me that I would one day sit down to pen this. Never in my wildest dreams. I am listening to "Carry On" by Fun as…
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October 28, 2020
The Torturous Pursuit of Meaning
I once met a doctor at Kisumu Specialists Hospital who narrated to me a story of how he had spent a huge chunk his life teetering at the brink of…
October 21, 2020
The ‘ROBO DINE’ guy
The world is full of unsavoury and savoury characters. Misfits, miscreants and maestros dominate this third planet in appalling numbers and almost in equal measure. They are in our lives…
October 14, 2020
What do you wake up to?
I used to wake up to beautiful texts from a beautiful girl with beautiful eyes. They’d be well paragraphed and laced with emojis that made them glow. Life happened and…
October 7, 2020
A 3am Letter to My Old Man
Dear father, For some reason I can't find sleep today. And it's not because of a girl. Neither is it because I’m stressed. My thoughts are just jumbled all over.…
September 30, 2020
Ooh, What a tough man this was!
The first time I met him was in late December 2018. I had just come from my former workplace at Cloudfactory (which I hated). It was his grandson’s graduation. The…
September 27, 2020
Where is my mind?
It is a long lovely road. I can’t place it in any location. But its familiarity gives me a delusion of grandeur. Un-tarmacked and un-lit as it is, it is…
September 25, 2020
Jack is Back
I used to school at a place called Amani. Lore went around that it’s where Armani got his name from. You know the Armani I am talking about. Don’t you?…
September 25, 2020
Melody in a Cage.
Her eyes were hazy. She felt her neck twitching. Her body lay there still and spent. Her mind was so far away. She thought about Monica. Where could she be…
September 25, 2020
The Storm is On: Life in the age of Coronavirus
A virus from the city of Wuhan in China has somehow managed to find its way to all corners of the world. You gotta give credit to globalization for this.…
September 25, 2020