family – Becoming The Muse

Of The Strong Woman Scam

Don’t call her strong… It seems like a compliment doesn’t it? To celebrate someone one’s capacity to endure. It seems like solidarity doesn’t it? To tell someone to stay strong…

Of Coffee With Bridges

19 Apr 202220 Apr 2022

If you were having coffee with me I would welcome you to my tangle of words and offer you a beverage of your favourite choice, as long as it's available…

Of Struggling With Parenting

14 Jan 202214 Jan 2022

Guest Article MY STRUGGLE AS A PARENT Before I start this post I would like to alert you that it is going to be centered on humour because over the…

Of The Mire Painting A Mirage

1 Sep 20211 Sep 2021

Painting A Mirage Painting A Mirage is a book by Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure published December 2020 by Carnelian Heart Publishing Ltd. Painting A Mirage is Book 1 of The Mire…

Of My Sister, the Serial Killer Book Review

28 Nov 202028 Nov 2020

November read for The Harare Book Club My Sister, The Serial Killer My Sister The Serial Killer is a debut novel by Nigerian Oyinkan Braithwaite which was been longlisted for…

Of Coffee And Much I Do

27 Aug 201927 Aug 2019

If you were having coffee with me, I would greet you like “look what the wind blew in.” August is windy and blowing all sorts of season change around, winter…

Awards and Challenges…

Of Mental Wellbeing

29 Jun 201929 Jun 2019

“Being healthy is not merely the absence of disease or infirmity…” Those were the first words a lecturer said while introducing us to a University course. It’s strange how I…

Of Coffee In A Fuel Queue

If you were having coffee with me I would greet you very merrily and say “compliments of the festive season” as I ask how your holiday season has been. If…

Of Taking One’s Leave

29 Sep 201829 Sep 2018

Why is it so hard to say goodbye? Separation anxiety is real, put effort in how you say goodbye...... You know how when the parent has to leave a child…

Of Wandering Minds

21 Mar 201821 Mar 2018

Wednesdays are short story days. I'll pick a tweet from my twitter #VSS archive and expand on it... https://twitter.com/Beatonm5/status/490886142003539968 The house was silent, in the way a vacant house was…

Defining Moments…

Of Thoughts On TV Land

27 Feb 201827 Feb 2018

The television is some sort of pseudo-religion and our living rooms are shrines where families congregate to lay on the TV’s alter their time; attention and sometimes even each………. https://twitter.com/Beatonm5/status/956457984816828416…

Of Birth Days

4 Dec 20175 Dec 2017

Birthdays are awesome things, they are the one day in the year people are extremely nice to you (not counting weddings) for simply breathing. People pop out from all over…