marriage – Becoming The Muse

Defining Moments

Of Traditions, Marriage And The Law

The main traditions that we maintain are linked to birth, marriage and death; the circle of life. Funerals In the midst of life we are in death and funerals are…

Of Stay With Me

3 May 20203 May 2020

Book Review Stay With Me is the debut novel by Nigerian author Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀. First published 2017 the book and author have since received critical acclaim as well as nominations…

Of The Boomerang Affair

17 Mar 202015 Mar 2020

A Guest Story by Berina Ogega Bomerang Affair The floor was colder than usual. I turned away from the wall and moved closer to my husband. I could not reach…

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…

Of Letting Go What Was Never meant To Be

21 May 201924 May 2019

Guest Post OF LETTING GO OF WHAT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE I had a dream today morning, it was around 5 in the morning I think. That is when…

Defining Moments…

Of Coffee With The BestMan

7 May 20198 May 2019

If you were having coffee with me; I would be happy to see you visit and I would tell you about how I was my brother’s best-man. And yes, I’ll…

Of Blessed Princes: A review

The Blessed Princes: A Review The Blessed Princes is a novella by Micheal Mc Portar Mupotaringa and Monalisa Chishato. This easy read 37 pages long is an intriguing short story…

Of The Mistress Chronicles

6 Aug 20186 Aug 2018

Sometimes people scroll past my Twitter timeline and get *mused* by the barely formed story plot ideas I have just floating around on the twitterverse, most times they hardly tell…

Of Love In The Time Of Chocolate Cake

4 Jul 20183 Jul 2018

Guest Post Love in the time of chocolate The rich chocolatey smell of the cake overwhelms my nostrils, coating the fine hairs with thoughts of warm crushed cocoa beans. I…

Of coffee and marriage

If you were having coffee with me, I would greet you at the door and I would ask you if you aren't glad I'm not the kind of host to…

Mused

Of The Muse In You: Dead End

31 Mar 201831 Mar 2018

Welcome to the story which I will write with your help. How it works: I tell part of the story and you can be a part of this journey by…

Awards and Challenges…

Of MaRooro: A Traditional Marriage

11 Sep 201712 Sep 2017

Marriage has always been the ultimate commitment to any relationship, sometimes unspoken even downright ignored but it’s always there lurking………….. In the Zimbabwean culture, the aunts Vatete (your father’s sisters)…