Just before I talk about the EMBER months, let me take you back to my recent trip to Calabar for the National Conference organized by CMDA(Christian Medical and Dental Association). At first, I had decided not to attend. There were…
You should learn from it too. Well, mistakes and carelessness are tied in the same pot. Every action of carelessness can lead to a mistake. …………. Fear has a way of showing up when you least expect it. Not the…
Last week, I met a friend at the hospital. She had gone in for what she thought was “just malaria.” But after some tests, the doctor shook his head and said, “You’ve been carrying more than malaria, typhoid is here…
It was 5:47 PM. The office was finally quiet, but your mind wasn’t. Your shoulders felt like you’d been carrying a backpack filled with bricks all day. Somewhere between answering that urgent email, sitting for long lectures, making a tough…
July didn’t lie, did it? Every moment, the good, the bad, the heartwarming, the heartbreaking, was deeply felt. Lives were lost. People I knew, people I never met… yet death snatched them away 💔. And then, there were births. Many…
Dear Winnies, Constantly hanging your head, your neck bent in sorrow, defeat, or pain, can block you from seeing the light and hope that hovers just above. …I cried my eyes out until my head throbbed with pain. Suddenly, I…
Flashback……. I remember when I was much younger, I loved spending time at the kitchen balcony. It wasn’t so spacious, but the cool breeze made it my favorite spot. Back then, we hadn’t raised our fence high, so a few…
Imagine being the pastor’s daughter. The one everyone looked up to. The one expected to be perfect. A role model, untainted and set apart. But then I got pregnant. It wasn’t just a scandal. It was a thunderbolt that cracked…
Dear Winnies, Today, I’m Picking Up My Pen Again. To inscribe words on the tablet of your heart. To whisper peace into your ailing soul. I want you to feel as you read…. To breathe in these words as life-giving…
Mama Adaeze used to say, “If a yam stays too long in the ground, it may rot instead of ripen.” But Adaeze didn’t understand that proverb until much later after the applause faded, after the weight of expectations grew heavier,…