THINGS THAT CAN SLOW YOU DOWN (1)

I was travelling from Ibadan some months ago when the car suddenly lost momentum, the engine went off. I drove slowly off the road and parked. I was still in Ibadan. I had a meeting to catch up with- We got another cab. We left the car there after arranging a mechanic to fix it. I could not stay there. […]

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THE WAY DANIELLE WOKE UP

It was a hectic season and we had to wake up the kids pretty early to prepare them as we had to leave home early. Danielle was still quite sleepy and struggling to wake up. When I woke her up, the first thing she said was, “Where is my Aunt ?” I looked at her mum and her mum said, […]

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THE PHONE CALLS WERE NOT REAL

I had a roommate once who would stay on the phone and talk for long with his mum about foreign countries, the laptops his uncle sent and a lot of high sounding and mouth-watering things. I remember an occasion when he told his mum on phone, “Mummy, I have told you I don’t want to go for summer break. I […]

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HUNGRY BUT CHECKING THE WRONG PLACES

Olive began to pull at my vest. She opened her mouth and started eating up the region around my chest. It was obvious she was hungry. It was obvious she knew what she wanted but she was checking the wrong place. I carried her to her mum so she could be fed. It is important to know what you want […]

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THE ROOM THAT WAS NEGLECTED

At a point, we had an option of choosing rooms as young ones. There was this small and cute room that my brother and I loved. Another room was full of “junks”- a shelf of paint cans and all. It became a tussle but my brother chose the small room and I moved to the junk-room. Guess what, the junk-room […]

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