by Sola Alao-Chukwura Recently, I listened to my children (4 years and 3 years) singing, ‘Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. If you see a crocodile don’t forget to shout for HELP!’ As they sang the song over and over again, I realised that the song aptly mirrors what many of us experience daily in life and our reactions to these experiences. Of course, you will agree with me that life can …
My friend, Like Him (LH), fell in love with a young man and 6 years ago, they got married. I, along with other friends and family, celebrated with them and fully expected that within months, we would rejoice again, welcoming their first child into the world.
Welcome! Have you ever felt like you took two steps forward and ten steps backward, and then you wonder if you are ever going to make it? Well, I am in that place again. Sometimes, I actually feel like this struggle is peculiar to me and me alone. What is wrong with me, I ask? Why is it that yesterday I could see so clearly and today, I am unable to see beyond what seems …
I recently had a baby after a 7-year hiatus. As soon as I found out we were expecting, I resolved to do everything within my power to deliver a healthy baby. In the months I was pregnant, I did, however, spend a lot of time thinking. I thought up answers to the questions I expected people would ask. I thought up rejoinders to the wisecracks and comments people would make. I planned how I would …
Hello People, welcome to 2011! It was my first Christmas and New Year celebration as a married woman. I did my best to prove to my dear husband that festive cooking does not in any way faze me. I made fried rice, jollof rice, coconut rice, efo riro with pounded yam, edikaikong, goat meat pepper soup… not to mention the shredded beef sauce and the cake I baked.
