The moment there is suspicion about someone, everything they do becomes tainted, Mahatma Gandhi, the guru says.
Before I pulled away for a drive to relax my mind and meet my best friend Mel for a drink, Joe and I had differed on how addicted he was to his phone.
The weather had quickly changed, from a bright sunny day to a rainy day. I missed the sun which brings a frisson of joy to my skin, plants a smile all day on my face as I run around the busy Nairobi making my ends meet.
What was your rock bottom moment? That moment or situation you can easily point out and say ‘that was my lowest’.
A fight or flight moment.
Mine came so recently, I can still taste the salty rock I hit when I got to the bottom.
True - life offers us brief moments with each other...but sometimes in those brief moments, we embrace memories that last a lifetime.
We do not remember such days; we remember moments. Imagine the look on estate residents' faces when the police arrived unannounced at a house party and surprised the revellers who were stunned, frozen.
“The house of the year,” was one of the comments in the Whatsapp group as other real estate developers marvelled at the photos of the new Tigoni bungalow. They were amazed by its design, the budget and the construction period.
Under the scorching sun of northern Kenya I paced lethargically behind a herd of cattle. The animals totaled 90 cows, and 42 bulls. I was their herder, and they were my only companion in the deserted arid plateaus where I grazed them. They scavenged for scanty shrubs as I listened to the Bluetooth radio that hung loosely across my shoulder.
“I hereby order and direct the nationwide dusk-dawn curfew to be vacated with immediate effect.” President Uhuru Kenyatta - October 20, 2021.
Life is mysterious. In high school, I was considered by the discipline teachers as a miscreant, and by my coach as a star. It was like I lived inside two universes. I doubled up as the captain for our high school rugby team and the Dining Hall captain. These roles were the expression of my duality, which up to now, had quadrupled. To say I lived a double life would be an understatement, since the paths I chose always branched along the way.
I met my husband at one of the five-star hotels at the heart of Nairobi.
He was a respected chef on his way up the ladder, and I worked as a waitress.
Call it a cosmic coincidence but for some reason, our shifts were in sync, and we got to see a lot of each other.
The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, on Tuesday, September 21, signed a loan portfolio guarantee agreement with the African Guarantee Fund (AGF) for small and medium-sized enterprises amounting to Ksh750 million to increase financing of green transactions in Kenya.