Mama Hailey, my other name, threatened to change one afternoon when Hailey got back from school and told me she had decided that she does not want to be called Hailey anymore. I know, unbelievable! “What? Why mum. What’s wrong with your name?” was my reaction. I was shocked of course because I have always believed (conceitedly perhaps?) that 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 […]
A heated discussion about mistresses was underway on social media; about their idiocy, their lack of respect towards the sacred union of marriage, their inability to find themselves a man who would commit to them, their folly for thinking that a man could ever leave their wives for them, their desperation for love…The insults went on and on and on. […]
If you have children, you want nothing but the best for them. The best for them includes having the man who made those children with you playing a part in their lives and helping in raising them. You want him to help in providing their financial, emotional and psychological needs. Every child needs their father. And yes, every mother knows […]