The warmth of the past Refreshed in a way only  You can experience here in this space.   Not exactly memories But an inexplicable peace That surrounds you With the sights and sounds Of the past you behold.   Only you can drift into That space Where the beauty and enjoyment of now is… Continue reading

Through my teaching resource research, I discover many treasures, one of the best is Window Swap. Watching the videos transported me all around the world and back. I am an inquisitive learner,  an inquirer and this was really inspiring. I just love searching and finding. That is what I always want to wake up to,… Continue reading

E is so relaxed these days and has her day organized to suit her. I tell her to write down her daily schedule so she has a balance but she always tells me, “Mum I know what I am doing.” A teenager in control, I guess! I leave her to organize her day. E loves… Continue reading

We chose to take a local walk on Wednesday, last week. Mattie and I experienced an interesting scene. On the pavement, not too far from my house, on our broad road, more like a boulevard, stood the birthday boy who had donned an all white outfit, a boubou and trousers, as we do on important… Continue reading

I see green all around me. This is because as my brother rightly put it, yesterday being my daughter’s birthday, we had a ‘party in paradise’.  A handful of us, it was just green. Covid 19 birthed the green fingered entrepreneur in my sister Ros. Stepping into Mama’s footsteps, Ros has created this paradise at… Continue reading

I push me I encourage me I tell me That I have to do it I have to change me By doing some things I would never do But this is the time To drag me To convince me Into achieving New and exciting Things I would have never done for me.   This just… Continue reading

In bed last night, I tossed and turned. I remember clearly what I saw. My planner for today and what I had to teach my small math groups, online.  Interestingly, from what I remember,  I may already have been teaching as I had students asking me clarifying questions. I am sure I drifted in and… Continue reading

Never before has Easter been so sad Never before have we missed wearing black for Friday mass white for Sunday fuss all the hunting forgotten changing our Easter Fun.   I had to quickly write a sample poem for my fourth graders. This is what I crafted.     Continue reading

Poems, stories, memories, worries and descriptive writing  … I can’t thank the TWTs enough for another opportunity to slice for thirty one days. I have grown as a writer because of the opportunity, this being my fourth year of writing at the SOLSC. I am now confident to put words on paper and believe that… Continue reading

It’s been less than a month but seems a long while since I last went to see Joyce and Pat, who have now become like family. That is where I go and get spoilt, for my regular  manicure and pedicure visits. At the salon, we chat and laugh at what’s going on in town. The… Continue reading