A man bought a new house and decided that he was going to have a very beautiful lawn.  He worked on it every week, doing everything the g...

It feels like it has been forever since my last blog entry. 8 weeks and 62 calendar days to be exact. I doubt there was a single day that...

Impermanence. It's the law of the universe. But somehow, unlike anything else in our world, we humans seem to struggle with that concept....

I struggle to keep up with weekly blogging, let alone two blogs in one week! I’m A recovering perfectionist and the idea of posting a sho...

You have just met someone new and a mutual interest seems to be growing. Love bells are ringing. Getting to know each other is in full fo...

A few weeks ago, a beautiful human, habesha woman, blogger, mom and wife I admire reached out to me with something exciting. She wanted t...

It was a no brainer. We were onto something good. The Instagram account run by one of our co-founders was flooded with story after story ...

On Sunday March 10th, I woke up to my social media feed congested with terrible news from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. An Ethiopian Airlines pl...

It's international women's day and I am reflecting on what I am seeing as a phenomenon of feminine energy resurgence. The world, in my op...

It used to happen whenever you ran into your high school classmate out of nowhere. You chat about the basics and try to gauge what they h...

Red everywhere. Roses and hearts and chocolates and cards, reminders on each corner you turn to. Love day is here! Capitalism has found a...

Why am I unsure about this one? The grapple with vulnerability and my eventual surrender to it's might have always led me to good places ...

There was no question about it, I was to feed my new baby breastmilk. Didn't need to be convinced on it being the very best start I could...

I sat scrolling through my Facebook and allowing my Instagram stories feed to play itself as I nurse my baby. I's thansgiving day here in...

Just like that. It's been over three months since I logged into my website. Over three months since I wrote anything, responded to any me...

There's this place. Your source place. It brought you forth, raised you. A country that has woven the fibers of your identity, a city who...

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Wedding planning is a weird thing. However detailed and extravagant you want yours to be or not, it's a day that is so special to you and...

Brace yourself, if you have ever met that annoyingly optimistic sounding person, I am about to risk reminding you of him/her. But it won'...

Without the distance hurdle added to it, a relationship in and of itself is a windy tricky road to maneuver. Love has this unorthodox wa...