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
Tag: The Mother of All Losses
My Education In Becoming An Empowered Woman
March 8th is International Women’s Day, but this day means two very different things to me as a woman and as a motherless daughter. When I think of what it means to be a woman, I think of my mother. Almost everyone believes their mother is the best, and rightly so. Mums are everything!!! My … Continue reading My Education In Becoming An Empowered Woman
December 13 2021
Dear mum, Four years today. 2021 has been a difficult year for me and I was completely unprepared for how deeply I would feel your absence this year. My mental health was in the pits for a large chunk of the year and I ended up falling out of love with so many things that … Continue reading December 13 2021
December 13 2020
Dear mum, Three years today. Wow! Sometimes it feels like December 13, 2017 was just the other day, other times it feels like it has been a million years since that fateful December you left us at 1:10 a.m. 2020 has not been the year I thought it would be. I thought it would be … Continue reading December 13 2020
The Mother of All Losses – John Mumo
PART OF THE JOURNEY IS THE END 14th July 2019. That is the precise date when Lwile asked me to write a guest post for this here blog. I was rather flummoxed at the request but I said yes without even knowing when I was supposed to do so. “Though it will be much later … Continue reading The Mother of All Losses – John Mumo
The Mother of All Losses – Franscina Omogo
Grief Etiquette 101 When I was twelve years old, my friend lost his father. I remember this so clearly because this was my first-time encounter with both loss and grief. After the teacher came for him in class, I didn’t know what to do or say so my child like mind created a safe space … Continue reading The Mother of All Losses – Franscina Omogo
December 13 2019
Dear mum, Today marks two years since breast cancer stole you from us. I may not be as heartbroken and angry as I was in the letter I wrote on this day last year, but I still have sooo many feelings. One thing I have thought about over and over again this year is how … Continue reading December 13 2019
The Mother of All Losses – Adelle Onyango
It’ll be 7 years since mummy died on the 31st of March and I’m writing this while listening to her favourite song – Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba. “Time can never heal this because time has never had a mother” Someone shared this quote with me recently. We both don’t know who originally said it … Continue reading The Mother of All Losses – Adelle Onyango
December 13 2018
Dear mum, You have been gone one year today. Gone. What a stupid way to put it. Like you have gone to the market and will be back around 2 p.m. But I find it hard to say you have been dead one year today. That feels so impersonal. I still wonder what happened. After … Continue reading December 13 2018
Lwile the Leo 