Tag: The Warmth
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Old Things Are Golden
With mind tired, fingers and hands exhausted by the day’s labour, I step out of my make-do office to breathe a bit. It’s 10:00PM, Mary and I are seated at her veranda. Water boiling noisly on the sigiri, Mary braiding her hair and the night sky gazing lazily at us. The night is going no…
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Sleepovers
”Olinga taxi enkaile.”(You are like an old taxi). Fondly my father would tell me. You see, passengers of an old taxi can never tell where it’s going to abruptly stop in their journey, thus my father decided to liken me to one. Several days each week, I called to let him know I was going…
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The bigger picture
Growing up in cities has its own downsides. People tend to lose their identity. They tend to get lost in crowds. They even start thinking that they are alone. That’s not who we are. That’s not our culture. To leave in a place for over 5 years and fail to know your neighbors, to be…
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Joining Afrobroggers
How did you join the Afrobroggers Blogging Community? Journeying the new terrain of blogging as a solo storyteller was quiet discouraging! With no one to laugh with, no one to learn from, no one to pat my shoulder. At first I wrote out of my excitement for storytelling and talking about God, posting links on…
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Around Uganda in 7 days
What’s the most exciting adventure you have ever been on? My recent one is traveling around Uganda in 7 days from the East to the West, then North and back to Eastern Uganda. My fellow campers and I had an adventurous memorable week. A boat cruise in which we constantly reminded ourselves to balance the…