I like to think of life as a moving train, its stages unfolding like stations along the route—infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age. Image by Edoardo Botez on Unsplash On this journey, we

Image source Some months back, I passed by my sister's secondary school building. Aside from not being what it used to be, it reminded me of something. I had meant to send her a text to stir up some memories,

When words failed and the world felt too loud, music held me like a language I didn’t need to translate. Image by ChatGPT I was 11 or 12 when I discovered music. Actually, what this means is that I discovered

Abazareth is formed from two words: Aba and Zareth, short for Nazareth. It means a city often doubted, but from which beautiful things flow in abundance. A place from which, among other wonders, extraordinary

Life is too short to keep treating joy like a luxury and yourself like an afterthought. Image by rakibuZZaman jihad on Unsplash I was originally going to entitle this piece ‘all you could have said that

A simple answer may be: "Little." [Image by Daniel Hering on Unsplash] I have this really great friend who's a blend of red and blue personality (for more on this, read Thomas Erikson's Surrounded

Image Source "I thought not fitting in was something I had to fix. Now I see it as my superpower." - Maxime Lagacé First off, if you're an empath, hands in the air. Ha ha ha. Okay, here the thing.

> these are bunches of unpeeled plantains. Hello foodies, I present to you one of my local dishes, boiled unripe plantains eaten with palm oil. Did I mention that I enjoy cooking in my introduction

Hey there, everyone! There are many interesting experiences I'd like to share with you about my driving job. I'll, however, start with the most recent. Shall we? Usually, I transport goods from state to

istockphoto The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Friendship, for me, has always been synonymous with family. Not the shallow relationship

My name is Japer Igwe, and I'm, first and above all, a storyteller. Fiction. Nonfiction. Screenplay. But before that, a little more about my background, right? I'm a Nigerian residing in Nigeria, 25 years