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What By the Book Says About Modern Dating
Modern dating has never been more accessible. At any moment, you can meet someone through an app, social media, a mutual friend, a networking event, or a chance encounter. Yet despite all these opportunities to connect, many people seem more uncertain than ever about how to actually date. Part of…
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Who Is Waiting For Your Film?
I read a LinkedIn post recently and there’s a line there that hit me so hard, I froze. Who is waiting for your film? We start with this really cool idea that we think the world will love, we write it, go through pre-production, production and post, and then we…
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Love In Film: Me Before You
In 2016 the world was graced with Me Before You, a British romantic drama starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Clafin. If you are wondering why “Emilia Clarke” sounds familiar it is because she was the mother of dragons for eight seasons in one of the most popular shows to ever…
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Beneath The Surface
I haven’t written in a while I want to blame work. That would be easy. The early mornings, the late nights, the three roles in one and one too many things happening all at once until the days no longer felt like mine. Work has been heavy, leaving me tired…
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Letters From My Closet
It is 2:19 pm in Nairobi. I sit in my cramped one-bedroom apartment, sipping sweetened mala, a fake candle flickering beside me. I’ve decided to be a writer because, well, I’m unemployed. For the past seven months, I’ve been scribbling my heart into a journal. Tonight, I write it all…
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That Friend
I’ve wanted to talk about Nkirote from Nanyuki, at least that’s where I remember she was last living. But I never found ears worth the dump. Not that they weren’t good listeners but I felt burdened, and in most cases when her memories proped up, they came with emotions that…
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Freefall
There it isThat quiet startling momentWhen I look at you and I can’t rememberWho i was before you walked into my lifeOr did I walk into yours?Does it even matter? I’m telling myself I shouldn’t hope for anythingBut here I am anyway, standing at the edgeLooking out over the unknownAnd…
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Love In Film: The Love That Did Not Sink
The movie Titanic is a classic for a reason. The tragic love story is based on a true story that happened on April 15, 1912, where a huge ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg. So many lives lost, so many families mourning; a tragedy that…
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Music Speaks
Sometimes I don’t know what I’m feeling until a song tells meA lyric hits, and suddenly I’m not just listening, I’m rememberingA beat drops, and silence I didn’t know I was carrying breaksMusic speaks, not just to me, but for meIt says what I’ve never had the right words forIt’s…