Do Not Let Your Husband Stop You From Finding The Love Of Your Life.
This is an extremely sensitive topic. It is important to approach it with a focus on personal growth, fulfillment and respecting the complexities that come with being alive, rather than explicitly promoting infidelity and unfaithfulness. The quote, “Do not let your husband stop you from finding the love of your life,” is provocative but if […]
Tell Me More. Go on. What Else?
In a world that has prioritized busyness and made it all about ourselves, sustaining connections has proven to be more complex. This is leading us to seek the courage within us to take that extra step. This post was heavily inspired by NPR’s TED Radio Hour where they focused on this field of busyness, loneliness […]
A Parisian Tapestry: My African Perspective
Paris is striking, this is coming especially from someone who has experienced the vibrant, often chaotic, warmth of Nairobi. You get to experience the city of lights. Its lights are a softer, more diffused light, filtering through different seasons’ skies. My Nairobi, with its sharp, equatorial sun, feels a world away. Especially now that I […]
Can Proust Change Your Life: Book by Alain de Botton
I have been excited to write about this for a while, ever since the book was recommended to me by my therapist. I have read and reread the book. The book is a philosophical walk that uses the works and ideas of Marcel Proust to examine modern-day life. The authour makes sure to get into […]
The Intersection of Climate Change and Happiness
Climate change is one of the most urgent challenges of our time, and its outcomes ripple through diverse factors of our lives, including our emotional well-being. The courting between climate change, self-denial, and happiness is tricky and cannot be boiled down to a simple declaration that “climate trade makes us happier.” Instead, this dating encompasses […]
Fashion Week : What to know about it
Paris, a global undisputed epicenter of fashion, hosted the Spring/Summer 2025 Women’s Paris Fashion Week. The event took place in Paris and its surrounding areas, concluding at Disneyland Paris on October 1, 2024. What is Fashion Week? Fashion week is a series of events where fashion designers showcase their new clothing lines to buyers and […]
Rethinking Design: New Approaches for a Complex World
“Waste is a design flaw, the ability to create circularity of all materials eliminates waste and builds a sustainable world.” – Kate Krebs. Design is a powerful tool that can be used to solve problems, create beauty, and make the world a better place. However, many normalised design approaches are often limited in their scope […]
Another Kenya: Crossroads of a Decolonized Africa
At the end of the 19th century (1885), the great European powers were not getting along. Between the 1870s and the beginning of the 20th century, the “race to share Africa” saw Europeans invade and colonize almost the entire continent. Despite their distrust and differences, this “sharing” was carried out in a relatively orderly fashion, […]
Effective Altruism : The Act of Helping Better
I recently came across effective altruism and I have been very taken by the concept. Effective altruism is a project that aims to find the best ways to help others and implement them. It is basically about doing good as effectively as possible. Its motto states that charity begins where we can help the most […]
Hook, Line and Sinker : Life’s Short Story
In the recent past, I have been grappling with this thing called the meaning of life. I feel like I have been had. I had a pretty normal upbringing that did not prepare me for the world that is today. I guess the truth is the same for many people grappling with meaning, identity and […]