Category Archives: Meet me

Onaopemipo

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

It’s a new year. To be accurate, we are 10 days into the year 2012, and this post is way overdue. My first post each year is devoted to thanksgiving, for God has been, and indeed still is, very good … Continue reading →

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Tootin’ my horn

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

I’ve been AWOL for so long, and I’ve got no excuses. I’ve had brilliant ideas for blog posts, but they have remained just that – ideas, till events have superseded them and I no longer see them as viable topics. … Continue reading →

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Back to school

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

Two Sundays ago, I woke up with just one thought on my mind. The girls were returning back to school the next day after having been on holiday for about seven weeks, and almost nothing was ready. Every year, when … Continue reading →

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Skinny jeans and the seaside

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

In the last ‘episode’, I promised you a post about ‘The Amazing Race’. This is not that post. Egirl has to hand in her homework on Wednesday. Part of it requires her to ask her grandparents or parents what it … Continue reading →

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Grateful

Posted on May 30, 2011 by

A dear friend told me she had missed reading my blog, and asked when I was going to write again. My reply? ‘I don’t feel like writing, I need to concentrate on my recovery, body no be wood’ She understood, … Continue reading →

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Drama, or so.

Posted on May 8, 2011 by

She lay in bed, both wrists and arms hurting from the numerous abortive efforts to drain her. She was almost immobile, not because she couldn’t move, but because there was no cause to. There was a pool of of her … Continue reading →

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Tough love

Posted on March 9, 2011 by

The other day, I got a note from Egirl’s piano teacher. She said Egirl had been tearful in a couple of lessons, and had complained that her hands hurt when she was asked to play new pieces. She said Egirl … Continue reading →

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Eau de char etc

Posted on February 23, 2011 by

I rediscovered an old scent on Saturday night as I attempted to burn down my kitchen. I’d actually started out boiling some rice, but I’d gotten so carried away by some fiction I was reading that I didn’t hear the … Continue reading →

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Taking the plunge, posting every week in 2011.

Posted on February 17, 2011 by

I have decided to post at least once a week throughout 2011. I am determined not to let anything get in my way, not even laziness. That is the most usual impediment to my writing, I honestly can not blame … Continue reading →

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Wiggin’ it

Posted on February 4, 2011 by

Howling wind wakes Egirl up way too early. T is already up, in the study. I hear him tell her to go back to bed, but she bustles around, brushing her teeth. I get up earlier than usual and Etoddler … Continue reading →

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