Happiest of happy New Years dear reader 🥳🎉🎊 Yes I know I am late with this, it being 26 days into 2026 (shout-out to the double 26 🤩), but it be like that sometimes 😅 We are 26 days into the new year and I gotta say I am LOVING the fuck out of 2026 … Continue reading Karibu 2026
2025 Reading Challenge
I have been doing annual reading challenges since joining Goodreads in 2015 and, 10 years later, this is the first time I have finished a challenge without reading a single 5-star book 😭😭😭😭😭 To make matters worse, I also read four 1-star books, yet in 2024 I did not read a single one 😫 (but … Continue reading 2025 Reading Challenge
December 13 2025
Dear mum, Long time no write 😅 but today is the eighth anniversary of your passing and because I turned 38 this year (and 3 and 8 are our numbers), here I am. I last wrote you a letter in 2021 for your fourth anniversary, and in the four years since then I am glad … Continue reading December 13 2025
The Opportunity Cost of Silence
Chloe didn’t have to turn around to know he was watching her again in that quietly dangerous way of his that makes her think of a black panther. He is seated a few rows behind Chloe in their Fundamentals of Economics class, but in her mind she can see him as vividly as if he … Continue reading The Opportunity Cost of Silence
Mental Health Monday: The Thing About Your Reputation Is It Is Not Entirely Yours
Eight years ago today, Taylor Swift released reputation, an album about finding love amidst the noise of public scrutiny and negative press. While her sixth studio album is known for its themes of revenge and reclaiming her narrative, it also serves as a love story about building a relationship in private while dealing with public … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: The Thing About Your Reputation Is It Is Not Entirely Yours
Me, Myself, And The Mental Illnesses I Am Learning To Manage, Not Marry
There are days I wonder if I have mental health struggles or if they have me. When PTSD rewinds, OCD loops, anxiety narrates, and depression withdraws, I cannot tell if I am having a bad day or if I am the bad day. World Mental Health Day is observed on October 10th every year, with … Continue reading Me, Myself, And The Mental Illnesses I Am Learning To Manage, Not Marry
Mental Health Monday: A Love That Heals
Eight years ago, on a rainy Tuesday evening in July, I left therapy and, in the quiet of a cab ride home, captured my therapist’s words before they slipped away into a moment in time. Flashforward to July 4, 2025, and my husband and I celebrated 1.5 years of marriage and 5.5 years together. My … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: A Love That Heals
World Suicide Prevention Day 2025
Every year on September 10, the world pauses for World Suicide Prevention Day. It is a reminder that we can all come together, not just with words but with real action, compassion and care to help prevent suicide. This observance began in 2003, and more than twenty years later it feels just as important, maybe … Continue reading World Suicide Prevention Day 2025
Mental Health Monday: this is me trying
They told me all of my cages were mentalSo I got wasted like all my potential That lyric is from this is me trying, a track off Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album folklore, which won the Grammy for Album of the Year. I adore everything about the song, but right now that particular lyric is … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: this is me trying
38 on 3.8
I turned 38 on 3.8, an age that holds both my birthday and my late mother’s (August 3rd and March 8th) mirrored within it. That serendipitous realisation, which struck me three years ago, is the reason I am anchored in the conviction that 38 is destined to be the most monumental age of my life … Continue reading 38 on 3.8
Lwile the Leo 