I have been in perimenopause for about eight years, but my period came regular like clockwork as it always has. I only realised I was in perimenopause about five years ago, because despite being regular, I could tell it was wobbling. It came a few days early, a few days late… once I had...
Today marks the seventh year Jomo has been gone. It still feels so strange to type that… it still feels as though a part of myself has gone wandering out there in...
Making this ‘arrangement’ brought back memories of being a girl and being sent to the yard with clippers to cut flowers for my grandmother. My mother did some of this as...
My anxiety levels are continuing to overwhelm me. I’m having an anxiety ‘attack’ almost every other day. Some days it’s worse than others. I have reached this place...
Dayo when I showed him this pic (with adoration in his voice): Mami, how could you not have been the golden child in this family? You’re so beautiful… way prettier than...
I am still here, but in a massive amount of flux. I have pond jumped, am in open warfare with a supervillain, and managing and processing bureaucrats and flying monkeys...
Growing up in Barbados I struggled to understand the incestuous and twisted roots of its society, and the facility with which people hide their dirty deeds and continue...
Detailing the illegal and immoral actions of my mother’s brother and Faith & Love Senior Home in Clermont, Barbados.
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Mami: Dayo, when you see me in conflict, what do you see me do? Dayo (immediately): You never debase yourself. Mami: And? Dayo: You never compromise your morals or...
When my mother physically attacked me in 2011, one week before my 37th birthday, the trigger was me calling her a hypocrite. Funny how malignant narcissists really don’t...
Dayo: * is all shy and bashful * Mami we have a beautiful future. Mami: * smiles beatifically and reaches up on tiptoe plant a kiss on his cheek *...
Back in June of 2002, my dad organized for me to go on my first visit to the river. He found an Oshun priestess he trusted, organized a car and sent...
