Look Up

I’ve realized once more in the last few days how easy it can be to get caught up in the excitement of things going on around you. This is so especially if it’s the same thing everyone is concerned with. It’s easy to let passions run high, emotions fly, words spew forth without regard and […]

A Resolution You Shouldn’t Miss

“The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.” As popular as this verse is in Christian circles, few people know that its origin has to do with the somewhat tragic story in 2 Chronicles 15 and 16, about Asa, king of Judah. […]

Moving Forward

I have no idea where the days went! One moment I was happily mapping out the last year and the next I was wondering why I didn’t get the time to do all the wonderful things I’d planned for the year! It seems that once again life, and time, has had the best of me, and […]

When Kings Stay At Home

It wasn’t that he was a lustful man. Really, it was a very bad time. He was tired, the battle had taken quite a toll on him, and things just followed in rapid succession. Plus, she was really beautiful. Thinking about it later, he realized something else he hadn’t paid much attention to – all […]

The Chinaman & Attendant Lessons

I’ll wager you one that if the Chinese upped and left today, we would have absolutely no idea what to do with the gazillion roads they’re in the process of constructing. Sometimes, when I find myself stuck in those China-induced jams (with a huge ‘we apologize for any inconvenience’ sign blocking my view), I try […]

Fear Magnifies Fearsome Objects

My house is like a huge underground zoo – you know, the kind you saw on antz or a bug’s life. I share it with all sorts of living creatures, led by colonies of ants and their attendant uncles. In the last day alone, I’ve dispatched to their maker a flame-red cockroach, a rather obese […]

Desperation

It’s a bad thing to be desperate. You come off as weak, dependent, couldn’t find another option. You are probably hopeless, and in your eyes, only the one you’re desperate for can help you. If he/she doesn’t, you’re done for. It’s a bad thing to be desperate. Say, peradventure, that you’ve had a blood disease […]

Champion for Christ

Like most ‘pseudo-realistic’ urbanites, I tend to shy away from making New Year’s resolutions. At least the written down and shared with the world kind of resolutions. Alas, I’m not as much a child of discipline as I’d like to be. That notwithstanding, I do have an end of year ritual that I suppose none […]

Departed, To Where?

‘The’ king of pop died, and, world media tells me, over 18,000 turned up at his memorial service (Ronaldo was being received at Real by over 80,000 around the same time, so well…) and millions watched by television. I was not among them. Not just because I didn’t have a telly anywhere near me, because […]

Be THE Man

I missed my father by a long whisker – by the time I was old enough to understand anything, he was long dead. Much of what I know about the African prima male, I’ve learned from watching and listening to other people, learning from some of them, and reading, of course. That manhood is about […]

George Oloo

dreamer.