“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates’ words have echoed through centuries, yet they spark a question, when should one begin examining their life? Is there a perfect time to start and are there tools that help on the journey of an examined life? Well, to illustrate let me tell the story of my […]
We woke up today to the very sad news of the passing on of our Aunty Monica Mghoi Mwamburi. As a younger sister to my late mother-in-law, she was a mother-in-law just like my husband’s mother would have been. That is how it is among us Taitas. Ambango Me Eric, Ambango Monica, as I would […]
I was called out to step up in my leadership in an unexpected way this past weekend. We were travelling back to Nairobi from our rural home when we came upon a van of stranded travellers with a burst tyre. Frantic, they flagged us down and asked if they could borrow our spare tyre to […]
Think big start small How do you translate think big, start small into kiswahili?Is it wazia mambo makubwa, anza na mambo madogo? I thought I had nailed it when that translation came to my mind but then I stumbled upon a Kiswahili proverb that captures the heart of the exhortation even more powerfully: ukitaka kufuga […]
Creativity, Self Reflection – Interlinkages Long before my sister went to school and learnt how to sing and dance to songs that I found truly hilarious like mzee mzee nipatie tumbako nikuchezee kidogo, nikuchezee kidogo, na breakdance kidogo, na twist kidogo (old man give me some tobacco snuff I dance to you a little, some […]
Today morning as I settled down to write about the African/Black writers’ books I read in March, I got a curious phone call. The man on the line, who seemed to be in a very noisy place, from the shouting in the background, announced to me that he was calling me from the auspicious Royal […]
Reactions in the face of conflict or threat Thanks to the book I’ll take some self love with that I have discovered a fourth reaction in the unproductive ways we respond in situations of conflict or when feeling threatened. I first heard of two reactionsFight or FleeAnd for a long time I have only been […]
The horror of watching the video wouldn’t stop me! I was stupefied but I still couldn’t stop myself from going back to it in utter disbelief. I watched it 4 or 5 times before deleting it so that even if I succumbed to the temptation to watch it again in the hope that I could […]