For the love of writing....

#10

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:32:50 -0700

The Sojourner's sojourn ends here.

As a minimalist, is it too much to ask for simplicity that actually works ALL the time?!

For five days now I've not been able to blog on Shoutpost. Maybe the site admin is working out some bugs - there are always bloody bugs to work out. I love the concept really, but I don't have the patience to leave my thoughts hanging in limbo till they get around to fixi ...

#10

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:43:50 -0700

Down but not beaten

~ What happens when too many opinionated people get together in a room?

~ It's confirmed. I'm down with either malaria or a very terrible flu. I normally sleep off my illnesses. This evening however, when I woke up from a rejuvenating nap feeling like a truck had run me over in my sleep, I knew there was more to it than a bad flu. I can't even describe how my head feels right now. It's not a feeling I ...

#9

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:12:36 -0700

Mini Bytes

~What I thought would be a story about us is turning out to be a mini biography. A lot of things came a' pouring once the bolts on the floodgates loosened. That's so typical of self. Give her a millimeter and she wants ten thousand miles.

~I'm coming down with something. This afternoon as I lay on my bed with a stuffed nose and blanket pulled up the way to my chin, an idea popped into my head. I said to self, ...

#8

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:37:28 -0700

Self, I think I'm finally going to get around to it. Remember hubby has been hounding me about writing our story. And we do have something beautiful together, don't we? You know the reason I've been hesitating don't you? Yes, you do self. I've been too jealous and possessive of what we have to want to share. But sometimes we forget. I don't want that to happen. I don't want to search the recesses of my mind and poke through the folds of my m ...

#7

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:49:02 -0700

Umar Abubakar Sidi

I don't know him. I only know his poetry and it moved me.

I WOULD NOT MIND...

Asma'u

I would not mind

If you

give me your face

I wou ...

#6

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:17:15 -0700

Some things never change
Today I went to the passport office to get my international passport redone. Reason is I don't like the photo, though it was issued just two weeks ago. Heaven knows what I was thinking. I looked like a market woman! The day it was taken I wasn't prepared at all. I look at it now and I think to myself, "Is this the woman I want to be identified as for the next ten years?" (cause after ...

#5

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:33:21 -0700

Wooot!
My short story finally appeared on AfricanWriter. If I had been a little more patient I would have noticed the front page is updated monthly.
Finally I can proffer links to my writings and mouth rather smugly, "I have some finished works, too."
It's a step.
04/07/2007
& ...

#4

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:58:17 -0700

Standing Naked
That's how I've always felt blogging. As if I am standing naked before the world. As if I were a cadever lying on an operating table with students poking and prodding every part of my body. Exposed is the word. But it sounds forced. Naked is more voluntay.
Yet I find it irresistable. The writer in me wants to express herself. The privacy freak in me castigates her for being too obvious about it. These two will never ...

#3

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:12:13 -0700

Between me and her
Never ask a man to choose between his wife and his mother. As a wife, try not to put him in a situation whereby he's forced to choose between you both. You'll only make a miserable man of him. And he might even hate you ever so slightly by putting him between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
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After getting married we had to stay at the family house for sometime, pending when we sorted ourselve ...

#2

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:51:07 -0700

Nyanya
What I find most appealing about Abuja is its newness. Unlike other major cities it doesn't have that beat-down look; romantically put, that 'rustic' look. Buildings are well planned and the roads slice through the city in an organized criss-cross. I've never been to the boreal regions where I heard the roads are excellent. In my book Abuja compares only to Calabar.... for now.
But that's in town. I stay in Nyan ...

#1

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:23:42 -0700

Random thoughts
Just when everything is under control something goes entirely wrong. Right now I don't know what is wrong... but I have a niggling feeling something is not right.
I really miss my baby and nothing can change that sad reality. I wonder how he's doing, what he's doing, where's he's doing it and who is there with him. Sometimes I get jealous of the very place he is. Why should he be THERE instead of ...