Life is like race between cat & rat. But rat mostly wins because cat runs for food rat runs for life. Always remember purpose is more important then need.Good morningFila1#NyameNeHene My colleague received the above message on whatsapp early one morning (note, its verbatim). She didn’t get it and initially, neither did I. I understood the general direction the writer was coming from- but I didn’t think the point was made. After a short discussion we had, we agreed on these th

Book Review: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho What rolled off my lips when I was done with this book was, “Wow!” It was nothing like I expected it to be. This book very different, and I’m glad I took the time to read it. I had heard about ‘The Alchemist’ whilst in Senior High School, when my poetry teacher was taking us through the poem, “The Sun Rising”, by John Donne. (I loved this poem so much, I will blog on it soon!) The poem made reference to “alchemy” and she asked if any

The past few months have been emotional, reflective and very exciting. Usually within the last two weeks of January, I realize I’m almost a year older and start the journey of self-reflection and self assessment. Mind you, this is a totally different episode from what I go through on December 31st. This year, my self-assessment has gone up a notch and taken a different turn. My sister got married last Saturday and before she left, we were randomly counting down the days we ha