When I was in elementary school, I had a teacher who taught my classmates and I a popular hymn called 'circle of friends'. If you are Irish, you would most likely know this hymn because it is included in the primary school religious education curriculum. Every week, my classmates and I would sing this hymn [...]
Today I want to get really deep and personal with you all about an illness I battled during the darkest period of my life. Whether or not you are a stranger to me, I hope my story helps to shed some light about the reality of mental illness and its gravity; how deeply and seriously [...]
Let me tell you a little story about an encounter I had with a niqabi at a popular market in Lagos. It was a hot and dry afternoon in Lagos and my mum managed to lure me out of bed and to convince me to go to the market with her. Upon arriving at the [...]
Assalam alaykum lovelies! I hope you are all feeling great today and on track to smashing the rest of your goals for this month. Can you believe there's just a few more days to wrap up this year? A few more days before the lapse of a decade and the start of a new one? [...]
Assalam alaykum ummati! I genuinely hope you and your loved ones are doing great. For my brothers and sisters that are sick, wounded and troubled, may Allah swt grant you all shifa and sakina and may He mend the hearts of the broken-hearted. So, it dawned on me a couple of days ago that I'm [...]
2018 would go down in history as one of the most challenging years in my life. If my life were a book and you were to flip through the pages and land on chapter 2018, you would be sure to find that all its pages are highlighted or emboldened to emphasis how deeply impacting the [...]
Assalam Alaykum, I hope you are all doing great today. So I'll be honest and transparent with you guys but since the last day of Ramadan, I've been in a fuzzy and nostalgic mood. The reason simply being that I miss Ramadan a lot and the the sense of security it provided me. It was [...]
This post is dedicated to one of my lovely readers who made the kind request to write on the matter. I imagine she is going through a tough time at the moment and its why I pushed myself to get this content out as quickly and as early as possible. Unrequited love is no doubt [...]
If you know me well then you know that I am an extremely picky person and picky people are not exactly the easiest people to deal with or to hang out with (largely due to the fact that they have very fixed and definitive choices and their minds cannot be easily changed). To better understand [...]
Since I got married a lot of my friends and family have been curious as to what my first time was like. I respond by telling them the most common answer; which is it was awkward and painful. I’ll be upfront by saying that before I got married I possibly imagined what losing my virginity [...]
