GIFTS

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

Young in the 80s A curfew was called Military imposed lockdown Soldiers everywhere At the call of a siren All gates were closed   By 8pm  All was quiet  Tucked indoors The curfew began   Like a natural disaster The Lockdown resurfaces COVID 19 is everywhere Nobody knows why or how Many are in quarantine Forced… Continue reading

That was Ama’s reality. “Wash this, clean there, sweep here, slice this, fetch those, help them!”  These words kept ringing in her ears as she stomped past the frail coconut tree that had become her friend for the past three weeks. This is where she would come for a much needed pause. A pause from… Continue reading

Ama swept her kinky hair up placed her hands on her hips and walked off in her faded African print dress. Singing a Twi song in her shrill, annoying voice she seemed fed up. It was a Saturday afternoon when Ama had finished all her household chores, which included hand washing a basket load of… Continue reading