I’m on my way to work and cranky. I had woken up earlier thinking whether my decision to be a human was a smart one. After waking up more than three times during the night due to the heat and mosquitoes, crankiness was a no-brainer. At the bus stop, there’s a long queue for fuel. […]
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“Richard, just tell me why my favourite wife can’t give me a son.” Of course, Chief Tomori is the only person that can call the doctor by name considering that he is on the hospital’s board of directors. The doctor itches a spot beneath his clean jaw, then clears his throat. “Sir, just as I’ve
My brother’s friend, the noisy one with dreads, is around. As expected his voice is booming throughout the house, thankfully, I have taken my nap. I wear my slippers and pack my hair before stepping out of my room. “Kiiti, everybody must know when you’re around. Noisy human.” I say, eyeing him as I enter
I needed a job. It had been so long since I made my own money. Also, I woke up every day feeling a little bit purposeless. I enjoyed being a mother, but I wanted more. I didn’t even know what. Dimeji had started trying to crawl, so he was grown enough to be kept in
I still felt sort of envious when I saw couples that seem to be doing fine. Frankly, I was sure that no outsider would think Jude and I were not doing fine. Mummy had even mentioned it a couple of times when I complained that she didn’t understand my complaint and I should face my
Yet another recently married couple divorced, I shook my head as I closed my Instagram page and dropped my phone. I went to check on my two-month-old in his cot, he was still sleeping. Dimeji was the gentlest baby I had ever seen. He made it all easy. He slept through most of the day
Sunday blues, a fancy word for the workweek or Monday anxiety is more common than you may think. ‘Sunday scaries’ as many also refer to it is that anxious feeling you get on Sunday when you remember that a workweek is about to begin or that the next day is Monday. We all get it,
Meet Mark, my best friend of over five years. Sitting beside him is his new girlfriend, Fehintola. By tradition, Mark and I have spent the past five years watching a movie together every Saturday night. We met at the Cinema six years ago, after sitting to watch a movie for over two hours while eating
When we consider transformations, we think of the big, hefty decisions. We assume that in order to achieve a certain goal, we have to go big or go home. Now though, we know that consistency is key to making big changes. It’s a new year and with all the resolutions, you may get overwhelmed and
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