A Stellar Woman's World

How many Mother’s days do we have yawa? Is it 8th, 10th or 13th May? Does this change yearly? Is it a week of celebration of motherhood? Is it another Idd-Ul-Adh? Mtu anitoe ushamba kama venye brother Omollo alitoa tint please! Sasa mkishinda mmepost kila siku ‘happy mothers day’ mnatuchanganya sisi watu tuko busy deciding whether the AyiiBiiSi (IEBC) should postpone the elections and give the gov’t time & room for negotiations with Mehico on the amounts of Yellow maize to be imported to Kenya to curb this crisis. We are busy people please!  Thanks to Fesbuk and other Sosio Media platforms, I get to remember to send the Special text/gift to the many wonderful women who’ve raised me and avoid being accused. “Hukunitumia ata message ya Mothers Day….nani anafanya ubadilike hivi? Umepata boyfriend? Huyo kijana wazazi wake wanajua anakupoteza? Nikiamka 4am kuenda Gikomba ndio muende shule huyo kijana alikuwa wapi…..?😂 What they don’t decode is that their preferred text should...

" If you want to be taken seriously, be consistent ." I start with this quote because consistency hasn't really been my thing when it comes to occasional posting and feeding stuff on this blog. It's been seriously abandoned and I think that if it were human, it would be 75% malnourished. The other bit of feeding (25%) would have to be the numerous times I clicked 'new post' and started writing something then suddenly just lost interest ending up having draft after draft...which will eventually be deleted...meaning there'll be no food...and this human gon suffer and then die..ha! (tragic ending). Ok, lets take stock... Having  no intentions whatsoever to make yearly resolutions come 2017 unless it's something I'm sure will take it's course and give me results. Example: "Finish my undergraduate studies and graduate this year." This was a resolution I was sure would happen. In case I had a list of supplementary units yet to...

From this day forward, I am getting rid of all toxic relationships; be it friends, family, relatives, acquaintances or colleagues. I can no longer entertain people or situations that do not push me towards being a better person. I'm deciding to surround myself only with people that bring out the best in me. Negative energy will have no room on my path. From this day forward, I realize that I have some memories to make. I have some dreams to fulfill. These dreams may seem senseless and somewhat crazy to some, but they are my dreams. I'll stop at nothing and for no one to see that they are accomplished. In short, the rest of my life, will now be the best of my life. From this day forward, for the first time in a long time, I am going to stop putting everybody else's feelings and priorities ahead of my own. I am determined to wake up with peace in my spirit, and love and happiness in my heart. I'm aware that my cup runneth over; it overflows! What i choose to do with t...

As she sat on a wooden stool beside the granary that resembled a baobab tree, she smiled as memories of the past week filled her mind. "At least that week was not as hectic as others I have experienced!" she thought. Tasks she was supposed to have finished by end of the day she had completed within hours! She woke up quite early today, fed the cows with some fodder that had already been prepared by Tom the previous night, tied the goats to feed on the 'fertile' nettle behind the main house, fetched wood and swept both the main house and the kitchen that stood next to the granary. Her plan was to fetch water at River Kuja later in the evening with her girlfriends when it had settled. She had over time realized that during the day, people were either bathing at the river banks, washing clothes/utensils, watering the tobacco planted not so far from the bank, or letting the cattle take water right at the bank which somehow contaminated the water. She had not seen Tom sinc...

Saturday 2nd July 2016 will remain one extremely special day for me and for my entire HHFL family! We converged at our wonderful and newly spruced HHFL compound to celebrate a great achievement that was not only attained by one 'HHFL alumni' but by efforts from each individual.  HanneHowardFund (HHF) is a Community Based Organization; a hands-on, family-oriented grassroots charity that works directly with vulnerable children and youth in Kenya to help transform their lives an d achieve self-reliance through education, compassionate care and skills training. HHFL has been and is still the most humble abode for many HanneHowardFund Lenana - Kids , myself being a proud beneficiary. It has seen and helped most of us transform into young self-reliant adults and responsible Kenyan citizens too. The first and now self-reliant lot of beneficiaries (otherwise known as the post-secondary group) have taken upon themselves to 'give back' to HHFL in various...

[But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it , ‘Why did you make me like this? Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?] ~ Romans 9:20-21 The same way a lecturer has authority over the students while in his/her class is the same way a porter has total say on what to mold, how to mold or even when to mold his clay. To achieve perfection (or something close to it..hehe), the potter will come up with a plan that to him, is the master-plan. To him, this plan will get him to complete projects, will guide him to approach his work the right way and ultimately earn him profits or make someone happy. We have a master planner too, in one way or another! I love community outreach work! I'm of the opinion that each individual should seek to make a change in someone else's life, however small that change might be. The change of cou...

Yaaaassss!!!!! My brain's exhausted! It has been a long journey that has finally come to an end. I thank God for the far that he has brought me and couldn't need any better than this! I attend my last undergrad class today (World Civilizations II) at 5pm. God, I didn't know that you would honor me this way!  I didn't know that you would bless me this way!  I didn't know that you would take me through this journey like you have! I've always known that I have no other God but you! You have done what no man has done!  You will do what no man can do!  I'm well aware that you haven't completed your work in me. This is just but the beginning of bigger and better things. Post graduate studies is the goal and I'm sure that just as you opened door for this degree course, you will open more doors for it.