Monday, 11 September 2017

Jeff ni mboys wangu sana

The boy is turning 7 years old this month,September.Watching him evolve into this whole person with a vibrant personality has been indeed a beautiful journey.At the risk of sounding cliche,I have still said it.

Thursday, 24 August 2017

The woman who vomited on my shoe

I am seated in a mathree one evening,a few months ago.We have to go through Nairobi downtown to exit the CBD. There's a woman seated next to me,she has what looks like an empty gunia on her laps. I assume she works in one of the downtown market places.She isn't clean.Her nails look like a hard day of work.

Monday, 14 August 2017

Thursday, 10 August 2017

The sun in his shoes-and other short stories


We were walking to church on Sunday and he was dragging his feet on the ground.

Paradisos do have wings.

I just witnessed the most dumb founding yet  remarkable thing. Si you know Paradisos? I'll take a moment to explain to those who were raised in the leafy suburbs.

No use having a big bum if you cannot use it.

It happened on Friday evening.
It was on my bus ride from the CBD headed home. I get into a bus, guess what, no front seats available.

Ati birthday month?Who is your mother?


The next time I see someone going on about birthday week, sijui birthday month....

Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Sunday, 7 September 2014

SOME ARE BEAUTIFUL

Some are beautiful,others more beautiful than some.Some hurt,yet others hurt more than the rest.What?I do not know.Maybe I know.Who knows?You know!

Friday, 9 May 2014

Kendi means Loved One


''One of the things that amazes me is that all we, as humans, know how to do, is sin.We wake up in the morning and just begin to sin," she said to me.

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. Fo...