Cancer is scary, but it’s not the end. For many, it’s offered a new journey into places within us that we never knew existed or to meeting the person who had been waiting so long to come out. Cancer is manageable and sometimes is brutal in its efficiency. I’ve learnt…

This 2020.1 version is dealing a heavy hand. Heavy! That’s what it feels like. Heavy. I thought rough would be a better word, but in my head, that rough comes with some gruffiness. There is nothing gruff here. This season is heavy. Heavy. Laden. It feels like we are riding…

“Perhaps the secret to growing from our wounds is to live close to the earth to live with our hearts and minds and bellies in touch- both inside and out — with that which is larger than we are.’ Mark Nepo My belly is full of gratitude right now. It…

Dear Baba, Shikamoo! I’ve been dreading this day because this time last year, you left us, just like that. None of us saw this coming. I remember Herbo calling me from the hospital and saying, “Kevo, Baba has left us.” I let out a howl, threw my phone, collapsed to…

It’s been five years now. Five years ago around this time at the Aga Khan University Hospital, I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and my life has never been the same. …

Van Persie, not the footballer, is the guy whom I buy peanuts off. The fist like packet cost fifty bob, half a dollar. Selling njugu karanga is his main source of bread and butter. He is tall, with a wiry frame and kind but well-worn face with huge eyes. I…

Dear Mama, Usilie. Please don’t cry. Niko sawa sasa. Please try to stop your tears. We are ok. The pain has stopped. Please tell akina Angela sina uchungu tena and I’m still their sister. My head and body are no longer umizaring me. But it hurt so bad that day…

I remember that moment like it was yesterday. I’d been waiting for that phone call and it saved me from a workshop session that I was struggling to make head or tail off. There were missed calls from my surgeon and he wanted me to call him back as soon…

I cannot forget that I’ve battled cancer. I now take a pill for 21 days and then I get a week off and then I’m back again. I’ve been doing this for 39 cycles. That’s a total of 819 pills of Lenalidomide filtering and meandering in my system since late…