Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Reid- should you judge it by its cover?

I won’t lie. I judge books by their covers-their titles. How else would I? A woman slightly beyond thirty loves some audacity, some deviation, some colour. The hunt for the most daring, shocking and dramatic titles is like the craving for a drug. you crave heavier and more regular doses.  I joined Nairobians in bloating

Everyone wants to know why she is not having babies, but it’s complicated!

There are apparent questions every woman must encounter in a lifetime. If you are my age, they will be thrown from every corner. When are you going to have children? Why don’t you want to have children? Why don’t you want to have a second/third child? The audacity, the level of intrusion, the sense of

30: Shining beyond the mythical age.

At 30, the society says a woman’s life is over. I say it’s just beginning! Thirty is not a pinnacle where everything starts sliding down. Are you a woman who just got up this cliff? That was a long climb! What with the many faulty and clueless steps you made in the 20s. Some of

POEM AT 30

Hello September, You have always been the month that awakens my soilYour pattern has been super beautiful.See, you gifted me a partner exactly a week before you bore meSuch a jubilant pattern I must observe!But why did you allow a blot into this decoration? Dad bowed out a week after you began In this beautiful

Stay With Me: A Book Review

Rating **** You must agree with me that I’ve been having such an incredible reading experience judging from my most recent reading choices. I am not yet over Chimamamada’s Half of a Yellow Sun, Lola’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives and now Adebayo’s Stay With Me. What’s striking is that they are all

Buttery Cinnamon Rolls

You will love the taste of cinnamon, butter and sugar rolled into very soft and buttery dough.

How to mix it the cocktail way

Originally posted on Karimi Writes:
Rarely do I have so much time in my hand like now. Working from home has meant eating, drinking and spending more time in the kitchen. As I advised in my previous post Covid-19: Why staying home need not be?boring, this is the time to rock that recipe you have…

Woman, thou shall not break your back chasing the ideal waistline, thigh gap

“I don’t think it’s wrong to take pride in your appearance, but not to the extent that it swallows your whole and completely cancels out all of the other things that make you who you are.” These words by model and actress Jameela Jamil speak to the weighty issue of women’s self-worth and body image

Book Review: ‘The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives’ Serves Humour, Mocks Misogyny

Rating **** The story of Baba Segi and his four wives as told by Lola Shoneyin is a page flipper. I interact with African literature often but I can’t remember giggling and cracking up between paragraphs like I did with this one. Africanised English has never sounded so real and raw like it does in

You bare all to your partner, why hide your phone?

Should cell phones be private? Should the parties lock theirs like the gates of hell? Should we sleep with our phones in our pyjama pockets? For a couple to achieve mutual trust, each must put in the work.