Wanjiku’s Eye

 It’s 3 am in the morning and I turned in my sleep, woke up and I can’t sleep anymore. Our dog Tina     ( short for Mutina) is barking relentlessly from right outside my window. She is a mixed dog somewhere between a Dagorreti and Githurai shepherd that is not so aesthetically pleasing. I’m not sure if the situation outside is as dire as she presents it to be or Tina is just being a dramatic bitch especially with her pregnancy. I try to distract myself from imagining an imminent attack so I focus on Tina and how someone needs to introduce her to family planning. Therapy too as she is constantly in between pregnancies, puppy birth and losing puppies at teething stage. Those that survive become everybody’s favorite and she is rejected for as long as they live. Sherlock Holmes in me discovers that Tina might actually be responsible for the death of every dog she ever gave birth to reclaim her throne in this home.  After 40 seconds that feel like 30 minutes in the d...

Not so fun fact. This was ready some time before Christmas but my December might have over understood its assignment. Here we are using it as our 2022 debut blog. There couldn’t have been a better write to do with this since Love covers a multitude of sin. (Let’s pretend it’s not a few days into the new year and you may or may not be reading this from your work place / study desk.) In fact you are reading this so I know your holiday is but a distant memory already.   Sometimes you really think you’ve met the one , then you meet another one and another one. Some lucky few do meet the one and they remain to be the only one. These ones need to do better in 2022. Write books, hold webinars and send us the prayers you made. We can’t all be relying on Ciara’s prayer you know. Others actually meet the one but given that there’s no separate underground world where they are manufactured it ends in tears and those ones want no one after that one. Whatever category you belong to, it’s really ...