I have a thing for picnics. Search on pinterest the word picnic aesthetic and thousands of beautiful pictures of laid cheese, croissants and themes pop up. As much as these pictures assist in curating insta-worthy picnics, they also discourage people from organizing them. Read on articles about picnic and you’ll find that cheese, cherries, sushi, boars […]

Have you ever seen a chimpanzee? I recall reading about them in elementary school but that is the closest I came to learning about them. So when I learnt that they were in Ol Pejeta I was excited about seeing them. Seeing chimps and the rhinos (Next article is on White Rhino and Baraka) was […]

When you are out on a safari, you think of the big five. You want to spot the lion, buffalo, leopard, elephant and rhino. Do you ever think, today I’d love to see the chimps or extinct species of rhinos? More often, we run to the Mara(I probably still will) but when you have been […]

I reminiscence the days I could wake up and drive to Diani or Kilifi for some Sangria and boat shows. Living wild and free, those were the days. Now I’m back to Instagram shopping and admiring the beach, the forest, heck admiring any sort of adventure that involves a lot of people. I don’t like […]

In the recent years, modern companies have tried incorporating work and life in the same sentence; one may not be able to differentiate between work and life balance in most companies. In my understanding the two should clearly be distinct Personally I have had different experiences on this. The first is when I interned at […]

We have a tendency to postpone pleasure in our daily lives to a time in the future. We assume that we will break our back now…then enjoy the fruit of our labor later. You think maybe by the next year, the next dream job, vacation, perhaps even by retirement, we can do the pleasurable things […]

How are you fairing on? How is Covid taking you? How are you? Like for real. How are you handling everything? How is your new normal? During this time, I have decided to focus on being better by reading, learning and concentrating more on my business. I’m also taking this time to continue developing and […]

Mushanana or Umushanana is the traditional ceremonial dress of women in Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda. If you do not know it, you might confuse it for an Indian sari. Well, it is a sash draped over one shoulder, worn over a tank top or bustier with a wrapped skirt bunched at the hips. Made out […]

I did not want to go the children’s room at the Kigali Genocide Memorial. The room is dedicated to the memory of children killed in the Genocide against the Tutsi. I had reached the entrance and couldn’t get the strength to enter. My mouth had a sad taste. The same taste I have when writing […]