2007 Vintage: Sip 10
March 19, 2017
As I enjoy this period of contentment and insight, I cannot help but feel that the worst is yet to come. … More 2007 Vintage: Sip 10
Category: Writing
2007 Vintage: Sip 9
March 12, 2017
I resume journaling at the end of a relationship. Usually that’s when I realize all that was wrong with the relationship…I can’t help but think that this abandoning of journaling, as soon as I am coupled with a man, is a form of abandoning myself. … More 2007 Vintage: Sip 9
2007 Vintage: Sip 8
March 5, 2017
To no one’s surprise, my ten-years-ago self continues to wallow in her post-breakup misery, in this latest instalment of my diary entries from back in the day. I’ve turned to religion, as you’ll see. Even made up my own little prayer. On the plus side, this entry contains an exquisite paragraph from one of my … More 2007 Vintage: Sip 8
Went/Saw/Ate/Wrote
March 3, 2017
This one’s on me. I’m happy to share my latest article for Selamta, the in-flight magazine of Ethiopian Airlines. For this assignment, I spent an afternoon being led to and fed in lesser known/much loved restaurants around Addis Ababa (one of which had one of the best ceiling art I’d ever seen, see below), all in … More Went/Saw/Ate/Wrote
2007 Vintage: Sip 7
February 26, 2017
Once I came near humiliation when I was going to go straight to his house one morning. But I stopped myself in time. I hate the fact that I need to write all this down. … More 2007 Vintage: Sip 7
2007 Vintage: Sip 6
February 20, 2017
It occurred to me as I re-read yesterday’s entry that my conflict towards my work stems from the fact that I don’t feel that I have a right to express myself. … More 2007 Vintage: Sip 6
2007 Vintage: Sip 5
February 12, 2017
For every part of me that wants to belong, another part of me wants to remain a nomad. … More 2007 Vintage: Sip 5
2007 Vintage: Sip 4
February 5, 2017
As a writer, I speak from a place of confusion. I don’t know if this is a good place to speak from. But that is the only place I know, at this point. Utter confusion. … More 2007 Vintage: Sip 4
2007 Vintage: Sip 3
January 29, 2017
I know what I want to write…but rather than write that, I go to all lengths to write tens of pages of material that is interesting and imaginative but in the end masks the truth. … More 2007 Vintage: Sip 3
2007 Vintage: Sip 2
January 22, 2017
So much of my doubt also has to do with the subject matter…with where I come from…my constant fear that I have no business doing this, nobody is going to want to hear or see this. … More 2007 Vintage: Sip 2
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