LET ME LOVE ME

Shoving a heap of "it's none of my business" smoothie into my mouth has been a major preventive medicine to choke back personal comments on people's social media pages but earlier this week, that failed me! My eyes detected different posts with the same hashtag at almost the same time. This caused an extreme heart emotional attack. To revive myself, I scribbled down my thought …

PUT THE BEARD ON IT

What would you look like in the next ten years? Ijeoma's question excited the children, if I didn't spend the day with them, I would probably assume that someone fed them candy. Mola seemed to take delight in the topic more than anyone in the room. However, I hinted the six-year-old; "Soon you will be older, your voice will …

CLOSE OR NEVER

Chilling with young people! Another thing that excites my inner being asides the unadulterated joy that comes when Manchester United wins a league. Teenagers plus children sum up my definition of young people. The dictionary will most definitely not agree with my definition, no hard feeling! One of the million reasons I couldn't help but work …

THE OTHER SHOES

Your heart may just be as broken as mine when you hear this; IT'S NOT ABOUT SHOES! But... "The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark". -Thomas Paine Experience enlightens the mind. It has placed at my disposal the runtown rundown of life; Good, Sweet, Bad, Bitter-Sweet and Embarrassing. I repeat, Embarrassing! I have encountered …

LETTER FROM PAPA

Akùùdo m, Nda otu i melu? Last week, I wrote to you on taking ACTION but you should also know that as your desire for a change sets imagination into action, a continuous action is needed to turn it into reality, hence, NEVER GIVE UP.  Ponder on this quote by Thomas Edison; "Many of life's failures are people who did not …

LETTER FROM PAPA

Akùùdo m, Talking about your dream sincerely supplies motion to your destiny but inaction reduces it to a mere daydream. Writing to you today, I remembered my days as a salesman in a publishing company. A school with an intimidating population is the dream of every salesman(in a publishing company), this births the imagination of …

ASSASINATING FEAR

A picture says a thousands words My featured image is probably like; "Oh! Vicky was enjoying what she was doing here" or "Vicky smiles a little too much". Well, that might not be the case here. This is just me ASSASSINATING FEAR! I accepted Bami's invitation to Lekki Conservation Center. By the name, I imagined a long walk, chattering monkeys and harmless crawling …

LETTER FROM PAPA

Akùùdo m, Ada oma, it is two marvellous decades and nine blissful years your mother and I became man and wife. An experience I will share with you in future. Today, I rather start off with the continuation of my last letter which was on IMAGINATION. Juuju m, to supply motion to your imagination, everything you visualise through your mind's eye …

THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST: THE EMOTIONAL MISERY OF UKU SHEILA (THE LAST PART)

Gabriel called to inform me of his wedding which was in a month time, I was not the bride… That I wasn't mentally deranged due to the unexpected emotional crack-up was a miracle. On my tear-soaked bed, filled with hatred and anger I regretted my wasted years; "Comparing and contrasting is invaluable in this situation, I …