I have four older sisters and that is more sorority than I can shake a stick at. Gorgeous is on the road to glitterdom via Gold Dust Boulevard and you dare not wake up Grumpy before the crack of dusk. Ms. Right is always right even when we all know that she is oh-so-wrong.  This makes me wonder if she really belongs with the first born, Ms. Humility ...Read More »

Wangari Maathai is no stranger to fame. In Kenya, her name is not only synonymous with political resistance but also environmental conservation, civic education and civic engagement. Reading her memoirs, “Unbowed” is like reading an amalgamated history of her personal life, Kenyan politics and some Kikuyu traditional values, all chased down with a healthy dose of social activism. In this book ...Read More »

This morning I went to drop off nephew #2’s forgotten clarinet at school. When I turned to hug him good bye his face clouded with worry. “Not at school,” he whispered. He shot a furtive look to his buddies telling  synthetic macho stories on equally manufactured gym benches. I looked around then gave him a bold fist bump. His flitting worry of ...Read More »

Thanks to the bountifulness of the Hyõgo Prefecture in Japan,  I have found my next life's calling.  I want to be reincarnated as a Wagyu cow. A Japanese Nyameni no less, with all the rights and privileges appertaining to cowhood. How now brown cow did you get these bovine aspirations, you ask? I've given this life altering decision (pun very much intended) all of three seconds ...Read More »

Usain Bolt improved his personal record in Berlin and became an international sensation. Days later, Mokgadi Caster Semenya improved her time and the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) descended a slew of clinicians  on her to certify her femaleness. Please note that I resist to use the word gender here as we are 100% sure that Semenya has  lived her life ...Read More »