I am constantly wondering what I am doing, plus the anxiety that comes with motherhood doesn’t help. So, that day, when my toddler held my mirror, and it slipped through his tiny little hands, shattering into a thousand pieces, you can guess that I was so upset. I wanted…
I DON’T WANT TO BE
I don’t want to be a wife.
A housewife, working wife, whatsoever wife!
It’s not that I simply don’t want to lose my life.
That is also a point, but that’s beside the point.
It’s simply because being a wife is as complicated as coding,
More complex than hacking and…
Edith’s bright light sparkled a few years after she lit it. She was a great law scholar. Having gone through the best high school in Uganda and finally admitted to Makerere University for her bachelor’s degree, her future was nothing but bright.
When she was in University she met the…
Growing up in an African household. I was taught how to behave in a manner that always saw partner, child, family and community obligation before self. It is no surprise then that when it came to working and raising a family of my own later on in life, I…
I cannot deny that being a parent has its moments, for me however, if compared to my marriage, parenting seems slightly easier to manage. As far as one can judge, my husband and I are two rather different people. He is a white man from the French countryside, I…
I almost prefaced this article by saying “I love my child”. It seems normal for women of all ages and creeds to apologize for wanting more freedom. Which is why before we say anything that may be seen as “unmotherly”, we start the conversation with “I love my child…
Once you make any big life decision like starting a family, coming out about your sexuality or even changing jobs unexpectedly. People sometimes think you are some sort of expert. At least that has been the case for me since having a child. Somehow all my friends who are…
To say the month of June has been hard would be an understatement. As someone who is accustomed to hardships, I thought (quit wrongly and perhaps naively so), that the hard times were behind me. But if life teaches us anything, it is that no matter how many times…
