And just like that, Lwile the Leo turns eight today 🥳🍸🫶🥰♌️🪩✨💃 I remember the day I launched Lwile the Leo like it was yesterday. I had tried, and failed, at blogging before, having started a blog on February 1, 2016, but for well over a year and a half I only put up seven posts. … Continue reading 8, or ∞
Category: Et Cetera
LFG H2!!!
Happy new month, new quarter, new half, dear reader 🥳💃🕺 I hope the second half of the year is off to a great start for you and yours. I kicked mine off with a sub-1h 10K this morning, so best believe mine is off to a rocking start 🤩 I also hope the first half … Continue reading LFG H2!!!
38 Days Left of Being 38 (Send Help Pls)
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 Days Left of Being 38 (Send Help Pls)
Twenty Years Of Taylor Swift (Lwile’s Version)
Monday June 19, 2006. A mundane Monday in many ways, though history would later argue otherwise. On that day, a then 16-year-old Taylor Alison Swift released her debut single, Tim McGraw, and the rest is record-breaking, culture-making, industry-reshaping history. Twenty years ago today, I was halfway through the second year of my International Baccalaureate (IB) … Continue reading Twenty Years Of Taylor Swift (Lwile’s Version)
April 29th Is High Infidelity Day (Do Not Argue With This)
Happy High Infidelity Day to all who celebrate 💙🕰️ For those who do not celebrate and consequently have no idea what I am talking about, perhaps you can raise a glass to this being my 200th post on Lwile the Leo! TWO-FUCKING-HUNDRED!! Wapi shangwe na vigelegele!!! Toward the end of 2025, while working on my … Continue reading April 29th Is High Infidelity Day (Do Not Argue With This)
Wednesdays Are Back… Kinda, Sorta
Long time no Wednesday post 😅 but that kinda, sorta changes starting today 🥳 Before I get into the reason for the change, I need to say that today’s post builds on my last two posts, Karibu 2026 and 38½ Years Young, so if you have not read them yet, you should definitely do so … Continue reading Wednesdays Are Back… Kinda, Sorta
38½ Years Young
There was a guy I had a crush on in university whose birthday is on February 3rd. From the moment I became aware of that fact, I started paying attention to today’s date because: I learnt to love my birthday from my mother, so birthdays, both mine and those of the people I care about, … Continue reading 38½ Years Young
Karibu 2026
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
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
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
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