If someone wants to be a writer or runner, they don’t cross their fingers and hope for a flash of inspiration to strike them least we call them naive. What is important is to start from where you are. If you want to be a runner, you start by going to run every day. The…

I recently attended a luncheon with a buffet setup. The menu consisted of about 15 chaffing dishes all filled with deliciously prepared food. As I went to serve myself, I faced a challenge in deciding what to put on my plate as there was plenty of food. I decided to check each chaffing dish before selecting…

This is a question which I posed to myself sometime back in my journal. I left a small blank space on the page in which I had to fill in my answer within 2 sentences. It had to be precise. A good number of activities make me happy, but the question was not talking about…

My country is currently preoccupied with the announcement of election results following the voting and subsequent counting of ballots. The opposition party is headed for victory as the incumbent is holding on to power though the writing is clearly on the wall as the people have spoken through the ballot. I couldn’t help but think…