I didn’t plan this. When we took our vows, I did not take them with the intention of breaking them. I was a man so in love with my wife, I did everything my wife asked of me. On our wedding day, when she slipped this ring on my finger and I did the same on hers, I was done. […]
The end. It came sooner than we expected. We had hoped that with our wedding, a new phase of our lives would begin. We hoped that the best part of our lives lay in that union called marriage. Where Zach would call me wife, and I would call him husband. We didn’t know that our love story was slated to […]
Been there done that. That’s what you think. You’ve had relationships. Enough to know how to handle them. You’ve been married. It didn’t work out. You sought divorce. Signing those papers came with some awareness. You now know what you want from relationships. You have mastered the art of love. Mastered matters of the heart. DeBarge says the heart is […]
Chances, if you are married, are that one day you will sit in a courtroom next to your lawyer – who will possibly be a man. Across from you, facing you, eyes unwavering, gaze steely, will sit a man you will wish to have never met, with his lawyer – possibly a lady. You will try to rival the man’s […]
A long while after trudging in feeling all fresh and unadulterated, smelling like that new shoe bought (not from a mitumba dealer – please! – but) from the Chinese -, Turkish -, or Dubai – stocking footwear dealer, the shoes therefore having never known the feel, the (foul) odor, the contour or the sweatiness of any other feet; after giving […]
I see her more than I would like to. Not that I don’t love her. No. I love her to death. I like spending time with her, looking at her beautiful face. I want her to always be with me. Yet sometimes, I am not sure if I want her by my side. She is my wife, my Penina. I […]
If I try really hard to make sense of why a Kenyan woman would hire men to kill her husband, the father of her children, I think I might just come up with a blog post. Yes I might, so here goes… When I first read this story in the dailies about one Faith Wairimu Maina, who confessed to attempting […]