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Understanding Women

Goodreads | Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Before I pretend to offer any serious insight on the subject, it’s only fair to acknowledge the scholars who came before me—men who looked into the great abyss of “understanding women” and chose honesty over imagination...

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The Burden of Being a Man

Goodreads | Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Many a man carries a silent weight through life —unspoken, often unnoticed, and rarely understood. It is not always visible in the way a man walks or speaks, but it lives within him...

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One Day You Will Be Ashes

Goodreads | Thursday, March 26, 2026

There is a quiet truth we spend our entire lives running from. Not because we don’t know it. But because we do. One day, you will be nothing more than ashes and dry bones...

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The Art of Letting Go

Goodreads | Tuesday, March 17, 2026

My life has been a series of lessons in letting go. People. Places. Dreams. All of them slipping through my fingers as if my hands were...

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Invisible Hands

Goodreads | Saturday, March 14, 2026

“We are blind men being led by the hands of life. We aren’t fully aware of where life leads us.” Thus spoke Jackson Biko. And I agree with him...

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The Beautiful Curse of Overthinking

Goodreads | Wednesday, March 11, 2026

I am the over-thinker type — the kind who thinks things over and over and over and over and over and over again, and then circles back just to reconsider everything one more time for safety...

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2A Joinery & Furniture Makers

Goodreads | Monday, March 09, 2026

There are infinity ways to be a man, just as there are infinity ways to be a woman. Some men are like onions — layered, complex, and guaranteed to make you cry....

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Peng Frames Opens Its Doors In Utawala

Goodreads | Monday, March 02, 2026

Today marks a special chapter in my journey as a creator, entrepreneur, and storyteller...

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The First Hero Falls Last

Goodreads | Tuesday, February 24, 2026

One day, you’ll bury your dad. That’s the day you’ll realize you lost the only man who wants you to win genuinely...

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Main Character Energy (But God Keeps Casting Me as “Tree #3”)

Goodreads | Thursday, February 19, 2026

Some of us exist in the background of every story. Likeable, not loveable. Needed, but not wanted. Present, but not included. Observed, but never truly seen...

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The Quiet Terror of Being Forgotten

Goodreads | Thursday, February 12, 2026

What I fear the most is that my life will pass unnoticed. That my name won't matter in the history of the world. I carry that fear like a small stone in my pocket...

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The Unfinished Horizon

Goodreads | Monday, February 09, 2026

There appears to be no upper limit to human life. Within a human being lies the potential for immortality; yet the actual span of life depends on the level of development of civilization and its technologies...

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Evanso

Goodreads | Friday, February 06, 2026

I only know him as Evanso. A young fellow — average height, probably twenty, bursting with the restless energy that only belongs to that age. From the first encounter I was...

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A Letter To Myself

Goodreads | Saturday, January 31, 2026

There comes a point in life when time stops feeling infinite. Not because it ends, but because it begins to matter. Today marks the end of the first chapter of 2026—one page turned...

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From the Brink to the Summit

Goodreads | Thursday, January 29, 2026

There are stories that statistics tell, and then there are stories that numbers only whisper. St. Charles Lwanga Mesabakwa Secondary School is one such story...

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James Muiruri: The Ng'ethu Star

Goodreads | Saturday, January 24, 2026

Death has always been arrogant. It arrives unannounced, unbothered, unafraid of protest. It does not knock. It does not explain itself. It does not apologize. It simply takes...

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HAVIT M3

Goodreads | Friday, January 23, 2026

Alright, let’s talk about silence. I hate silence. Silence is not peaceful. Silence is loud. Aggressively loud. It creeps into your thoughts, starts asking personal questions...

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Legacy

Goodreads | Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Some people choose stage names. Others grow into them. Legacy is the second kind. Let me state the truth — Legacy is a failed musician...

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Ng'ang'ana - Legacy

🎧 Music | Tuesday, January 20, 2026

From the very first beat of “Ng’ang’ana,” I knew this song was something special — a musical message wrapped in rhythm and passion that hits...

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My Friends By Fredrik Backman

Books | Monday, January 05, 2026

My Friends is a novel about the people who save us — not by fixing our lives, but by standing beside us while we endure them...

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Mwaka Huu - Devrix Da Fubu

🎧 Music | Sunday, January 04, 2026

I have played this jam umpteenth times. From the moment I hit play on “Mwaka Huu” by Devrix Da Fubu, I knew I was in for something special...

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Expectations

Goodreads | Saturday, January 03, 2026

Peace is not found in getting what you expected. It is found in learning how to live without needing life to behave...

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Empty Living

Goodreads | Friday, January 02, 2026

One of the greatest human tragedies is to live empty and not to die...

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Auguson

Goodreads | Thursday, January 01, 2026

There’s something about the start of a new year that invites reflection — a pause, a gentle exhale, a moment to gather thoughts before the noise of life returns...

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