GRACE

After listening to the Deputy President of Kenya, Dr. William Somoei Ruto, speaking about his chicken business, I decided to search the web and learn more about the subject. I was inspired to learn that he started his chicken business while in high school, in order to support his parents daily earnings. In a span […]

When two people decide to form a union, they are embarking on a journey with many stops along the way to their destination. The destination in the promise of commitment they accepted at the beginning of the journey to stand by each other until death do them part. Their marriage is the bond that fuels

The husband, in Gīkūyū culture is in charge of the wellness of his wife’s and children. For instance, the husband is responsible for taking his wife to hospital when she is sick. The mother reports a sick child to the father and the father takes the wife and child to the doctor. If there is

2021 Easter holiday reflection reminds me at age eleven years, and I had not heard the word Easter holiday. As a maid, one of my assignments was to take three kids in the family to Sunday school mandated by the colonial government to school children. The Sunday school took place in the classroom. After Sunday

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens …” Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, NIV. There are times we experience difficulties in our lives. After we are born, what follows is growth, change, and death.  We go through different seasons of our lives, and our bodies change as we move through

The soils that I drive my strength one was in the colonial Shamba (farm). I remember free skim milk for up to age eleven years. I recall shamba white man transporting us, my mother and sibling, to the concentration camp at Nakuru. How jubilant I was to have a ride from the white man. The

The Oprah Winfrey Show was my favorite TV show for many years. I learned one essential and helpful thing: washing the nose with water reduces a person’s chance of catching a cold and alleviates allergies. This practice is also referred to as Nasal Irrigation. Washing your nostrils and leaves them clean all the time. Warm

My take on kids, they feel like adults do that I should respect their smallness and give them their due rights. A baby is not a toy. Do not pick her/him from the mother against her or his will. The mother, too, should not hand over the baby without the baby’s consent. The baby is

One Sunday afternoon in December 1982, my husband and I had spent time with my mother-in-law in Nairobi, where she was visiting her daughter. We made it back home at 11:00 p.m., and I was notified by the gatekeeper that my supervisor needed me to report a theft to the police. My supervisor and I had

When my children were young and before they were of school age, I believed that only the teacher was supposed to teach them because they were trained to do so. Therefore, I focused on teaching them everything else except academic-related things until they started attending daycare at age three and four. Today, I know that