Kind-a Traffic Updates By Karambu Luruti

Written in a May 2017 Facebook post;edited in June 2020

OTC.
The first time I saw this word I was seated in Pangani Girls High School. Form three, 2005.
I am 28,stop trying to calculate my age.
It was courtesy of one Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, in the book Coming to Birth.
I never struggled with English Literature and Fasihi, got A's in both English and Swahili. But this book, this book by Marjorie, I remember struggling with it, falling half asleep for the first few months it was in my face.

Gentlemen listen to me-Girls! Need! Their! Fathers!

She was the apple of her father's eye,quite spoilt and the dictionary definition of a daddy's girl. This was most evident on days he would drop her and her brother at school,obviously late and would proceed to apologize to the school head right in the middle of assembly.
She always knew she was protected and very loved.He never raised a finger on her.

Threatened miscarriages

They kept talking. It was their second born child. You could tell that they were friends. They brought her tea, she drank water instead. He drank her tea. Her heavy breathing continued,she kept talking in between. I could almost feel her pain, almost felt myself contracting as well.

Well Hello

When I first started writing,my first son was my greatest inspiration.Get it?First started...first son.. No?Never mind.