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Personal story: learning how to build capacity

Reading time: 4 minutes I am currently on an over 200-day streak on Duolingo. I have been taking Spanish lessons on the Duolingo app, albeit unreligiously, for the last 235 days. While I am not nearly as fluent in Spanish as much as I aim for, the truth is that I am not clueless either. Disculpe, por favor. Gracias […]

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Happy Birthday Mummy!

Reading time: < 1 minute My mother doesn’t walk into a room and expect to turn heads. My mother walks into a room and expects to walk into a room because, Queen ways. Heads will turn whether or not it is expected.  Màámi. I have come to call you this in recent years. Not simply because you’re my actual mother. […]

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My big chop.

Reading time: 3 minutes   There’s no greater transition than from “Long hair don’t care”  to “short hair can’t pack”. It’s nearly 4 months and I still haven’t gotten past the TWA (Teeny Weeny Afro) zone. I didn’t know it was going to take this long before I grew my hair back. I didn’t think it was going to […]

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IT 2015.

Reading time: 2 minutes   The just concluded six months have been the longest six months in the history of concluded six months of my life. Started like yesterday, yet it feels like it’s been 83 years. An epoch-making journey, a door that opened into another realm, a slumber into a known reality. It’s been soo many good and […]

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Awardees Only!

Reading time: 2 minutes   Hiya darlings! It’s good to finally write something asides from “rhymes” :). So I got this notification a while ago that I was nominated for the Dragon’s Loyalty Award by the owner of this blog right here. You should check out her blog. She is a fantastic writer too. So what’s this DRAGON’S LOYALTY […]