Strictly (not) dancing…
I think I have never danced in my entire life – not in church, not on my solitary foray into a night club, not at all the birthday parties I attended as a kid, not ever. I don’t remember if it was a concious decision, or if it was/still is a result of a deep [...]

Right Girl, Right Time, Wrong Context… Or Not?
The following is an attempt to be coherent at 3.45am. If the logic is fuzzy, the imagery abstruse and the conclusions bother on the insane, blame it on reading Malcolm Gladwell into the wee hours of the morning! In response to my rant/ sobfest in March about losing my friend Di, LoloBloggs pointed me to a [...]

Life’s Like That..
In retrospect…. Life happens.. With or without our consents…. And in its wake often comes change.. which we by default detest. Over time, we develop safe routines, coping mechanisms and default positions to deal with life – ultimately acquiring some semblance of balance. Sometimes change is subtle; imperceptibly modifying the place where we are on the [...]

‘Rethinking’ Social Networks….
Perhaps, this is definitive proof that Social Networks like  Facebook and Twitter can be good for you after all. First one bloke has his alibi corroborated by a Facebook timestamp (possibly saving him from up to 25 years in jail), then an attempted suicide was averted and  Freddy Adu is [...]

Random simple things…….
Chris Abani, speaking at TED in 2008 makes a statement I largely agree with; The world is not saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the  simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of every day acts of compassion.. In the last month I, Saw a bottle of palm wine explode: The chic was taking some palm wine to [...]