The Brand(s)

On nights when sleep evades me, I lie awake dreaming of all the things I could become. Some nights I'm a model for Coca-Cola. There's a billboard with a picture of me drinking straight from the bottle. The billboards hung in cities and village town centers. The billboard picture is taken at a beach. It's...

Of my favorite social media accounts

Towards the end of 2018, I wrote a post quite similar to what's required of today's prompt. It was part of the Blog of the Year challenge which was probably one of the first blogging challenges I ever did. It's always exciting reading posts on this prompt because you get lots of new people to...

Social media lessons

Being on social media is like being in a house full of talking people. The rooms may be painted in different colours but in each of them, everyone holds a microphone whose size is dependent on one's follower count. Some people are looking for love, others are trying to market products they've never tried, some...

Class is in session

When I'm typing a text, I'll occasionally stop and read out a sentence to my siblings and ask if it makes sense. One of them always says, "but you're the teacher of English, you're supposed to know these things." I laugh. I laugh because they don't know why I ask. I ask because I know...

What’s Your Blind spot?

  A blind spot is defined as a subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment. I love church. See; church for me is a place to refill and I honestly love being full. I love service; the praise and worship, 'the neighbours', The Word, everything! My favourite part...