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2013: My New Year’s Resolutions

My phrase for the year 2013 is ‘Peace in Fulfillment’. I will: Go to church and take my children to church. Get ‘serious’ about food. Really serious. Continue to build on the great things we’ve accomplished as a family on eating balanced diets. Read. Write. Go to bed early. Be comfortable with spontaneity. Continue to trust myself. […]

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Friends For Food

FFF was what we called some friends back in high school. OK, so what if where I went to school, it wasn’t called High school but  secondary school? High school sounds much cooler. Friends for Food. FFF. It does have a ring to it, kind of like BFF. I’ve been swamped with work. At home. […]

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New York, New York

The view before me is green. Lush,thick and wet with Lagos rain. The grey skies, light with mist hold beauty in the clouds. I see it all from the departure lounge. I am staring through glass while listening to Alicia Keys sing about New York in ‘Empire State of Mind’. I sing along and dream […]

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Life

Life is funny. All of the last two weeks, I’ve moaned about my poor internet connection – I haven’t been able to browse, blog or do all the stuff I would normally do.  And then yesterday, there was a plane crash in my country, Nigeria. So many people gone – and now my poor internet connection seems […]

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Celebrating You – International Women’s Day 2012

International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women’s economic, political and social achievements.  Celebrating us as women, as mothers, daughters, sisters, friend, partners and the multitude of […]

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Why I loved Steve Jobs!

I am writing this on my 2011 MacBook Pro. Last night one of my heros died – Steve Jobs. My husband says ‘I’ll never go back to Windows’, after a few weeks of flirting with my our Apple laptop. In 2006, I had a sleek black iPod which we loved. I still have it, dead […]