<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>https://ecency.com</link><image><url>https://ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>https://ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:16:15 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ecency.com/@suqueen/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Too Much.  Loh289]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometime last month I was standing in my kitchen at 11pm, eating rice I had cooked at 7pm and forgotten about, replying to a message I should have replied to three days ago, and mentally drafting something]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/too-much-loh289-fm1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/too-much-loh289-fm1</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-124452]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:52:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjW3w55E9m2dpuZgVrNq2aY9k5RnBEP9KD2xCWxAb2gfGNMwNY3CePpPSEvPeYGMsvsYsHBLfhbMBXNqb8adYHf2BwP1FehepJ6RCH2cgFALN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shortcut He Never Took Again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone in Ajegunle knew that the fastest way to get to the expressway was through Mama Chika's backyard.Everyone who lived there used that route. There was one person who didn't use it.... Tunde. Tunde]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-shortcut-he-never-took</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-shortcut-he-never-took</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-170798]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 10:04:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmYenaqEmDQFhB5oUgCpd16s4WTWyimkPggSuruqLLty5g/1777888827881.png" length="0" type="image/png"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing Anew.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mama Chisom had been selling akara at that junction for eleven years, She knew everyone , the danfo driver who always collected change and never returned it, the NEPA man who liked his bean cakes extra-crispy,]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/seeing-anew-vh</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/seeing-anew-vh</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-170798]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:07:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjW4Pvz7LJVgc1Y8Dr68VKxqQHhW8yB8uUvWaVEMcZ4dqRR7Sjw2WRyhufTB6PaBGKdo5hzuME4QEinDnoskzk5A6XLewV5pEeVskjVB5gCdU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Reason for Living. LOH 285 ]]></title><description><![CDATA[My Reason for Living Good evening Ladies, I'm glad to be here after a while. My main reason for living is simple, I am here to fulfill the purpose that God gave me before I was born and that is just it,]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/my-reason-for-living-loh</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/my-reason-for-living-loh</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-124452]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:24:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmZcDEKpswhAveDLwj4CqwjeBEqg8hTwtXBSzQERrM7jA8/1751450844459.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Coffee That Changed Everything.   | Creative Fiction.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve never been much of a morning person, which is ironic, because every job I’d ever held seemed to demand early starts. That particular Tuesday, I was late again. The bus had spluttered along as if it]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-coffee-that-changed-everything</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-coffee-that-changed-everything</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-170798]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:22:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmUqHpZnFTMQ1GEpkqgzvVHH32kEujGtGbRj4LsiZGgpzz/photo_5852705317140416447_y.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Only Went in for a Coffee.   | Creative Fiction.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I only went in for a coffee, that was it. One cup. Maybe a slice of cake if it looked good. Bus was in what ,forty minutes? Enough time to sip, maybe check my phone. Morning, stranger! That’s how it started,]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/i-only-went-in-for</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/i-only-went-in-for</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-170798]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:23:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmYaSCDrg7SP523WEoRmhh6m78VTnYQZPxCnnLmBsANoZB/1755112958889.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too Many Subjects, Too Little Skills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nigeria: The Curriculum Overload From my years in Nigeria’s 6‑3‑3‑4 system, I discovered what many of us experience: classrooms jam‑packed with up to 15 subjects at a time. We had Civic Education, Social]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/too-many-subjects-too-little</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/too-many-subjects-too-little</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-176874]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 08:14:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmZcDEKpswhAveDLwj4CqwjeBEqg8hTwtXBSzQERrM7jA8/1751450844459.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future of Decentralized Payments for Vendors and Small Businesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[HBD Meets All of Bruce Fenton’s Criteria And It’s Already Here Bruce Fenton recently asked on X if it's too much to want a stablecoin that is decentralized, censorship-resistant, unregulated, not tied]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-future-of-decentralized-payments</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-future-of-decentralized-payments</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 01:00:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmUJkYfm9ciDdDxthRd9dDrdAJKUXKurjrdNtDR54q9T2M/digital_payment_at_vibrant_market.png" length="0" type="image/png"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I’d Tell Anyone Leaving School Today]]></title><description><![CDATA[Going out of school is entering into a totally new world. You're very much exhilarated, relieved, and maybe with a little echo of fear; honestly, that is normal. One minute you're surrounded with fellow]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/what-i-d-tell-anyone</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/what-i-d-tell-anyone</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-197685]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 11:49:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmSNysFKCG6D5NGL22nZ2bhQ76FSKUeXgfdx6Dz1Jg6hBy/1751835301026.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising Resilient Kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve heard that line so many times: “My children must never go through what I went through.” And on the other side: “They have to suffer small, so they can know life.” Funny enough, I’ve nodded to both]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/raising-resilient-kids</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/raising-resilient-kids</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-176874]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 20:11:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmT6A2VbwF2ETiAuWw4LLMrvcNFFSuhjxPx8hAn9YRBNn2/1754165195190.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fasting without works ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you a story that didn’t even happen to me, but the moment I heard it, I laughed so hard my stomach hurt(hear say). This one came from a friend who attended a midweek service at her church.]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-day-my-outfit-betrayed-5ae2b1cd2e701</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-day-my-outfit-betrayed-5ae2b1cd2e701</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-115325]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:37:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmSmuQJ1Sdj7tAjaKoY9PbRmJC2sCe1xUAxnYqcRqVBU3N/1754000157538.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Biscuit Tin Theory of My Life   | Creative Nonfiction.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don’t remember exactly when I started keeping receipts, but it’s been a while. It started small. A few supermarket receipts stuffed into a purse I no longer used. Then came shawarma night slips, ATM]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-biscuit-tin-theory-of</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-biscuit-tin-theory-of</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-170798]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:37:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmZcpx4dpHYvojufkDf86SxAGTcw3trT182Jr63FXZnxPE/1753953740579.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gift I Didn’t Learn But Couldn’t Ignore]]></title><description><![CDATA[I never learned to write. Nobody sat me down and explained the structure, the conflict, or even pacing. I never ventured into the study of literature. I never curled up with some fat creative writing textbook.]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-gift-i-didn-t</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-gift-i-didn-t</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-11060]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 22:11:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmZY8dZMGy21MYiTXKsBj8sYQQZmU4inhCTjYHBwm7hn4A/1751552821534.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding On While Moving forward ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Culture for me goes lot beyond the clothing, the greetings, and the food on a plate. It is the rhythm of life passed on through time. How our parents raised us, the origin of our names, sitting around]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/holding-on-while-moving-forward</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/holding-on-while-moving-forward</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-111030]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:21:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmZ2Y46ikn5VK4ZrfyGAFLqgHZaFvzucytY3dp7xnuuTxn/1753874365340.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[KISS #171: How do physical surroundings influence my emotional life and relationships?]]></title><description><![CDATA[That you would not care so much about your surroundings if you were strong enough, grounded enough, but as I got older, I began to observe more directly how my moods changed with my surroundings, The more]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/kiss-171-how-do-physical</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/kiss-171-how-do-physical</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-194848]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:30:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmRt8C9DX5GDCK2WPgFpCNyvUzFqttnWjBF2pUDNzAigwQ/1753827684405.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Peace Lives in the Corners I Tend. | #248]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some people say love can find you at any age, and I believe that. But at 71, I’ve come to realize something even more valuable than new romance peace. If I were a widow at this age, I would find it hard]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/my-peace-lives-in-the</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/my-peace-lives-in-the</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-124452]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:54:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmbXkbs8o2vTiA6mB4BSAifYkyc9EvsGozGw5KDDBA71bi/1753793535742.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ticket to Kaduna]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the bus station, the smell of roasted corn wafted across the diesel ,the air was thick with honking horns, shouting voices and the scrape of luggage wheels on concrete , Aisha sat on the bench cold]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-ticket-to-kaduna</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/the-ticket-to-kaduna</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-170798]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:52:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmbD2XgumRQWdHuVCq9vM7tyndoHQVYXET7o4HrehXbvKC/1753739019341.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI as My Assistant, Not My Replacement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here’s my real take on AI I only use AI once in a while because it’s a really good tool one of the best we have seen in this generation. For me, it’s made so much of my life and work easier in ways I didn’t]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/ai-as-my-assistant-not</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/ai-as-my-assistant-not</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-197685]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:01:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmcWT28RouvuT5HznmvuULEGC1LTXL6XjJ9wm9kyuiLCAn/1752229453473.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Love Fades: A Hard Goodbye]]></title><description><![CDATA[I didn’t expect to wake up one day and feel… nothing. There wasn’t some huge fight. No betrayal. Just this quiet, creeping emptiness that settled between us like fog I couldn’t clear. We’d sit together]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/when-love-fades-a-hard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/when-love-fades-a-hard</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-11060]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:42:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmSNysFKCG6D5NGL22nZ2bhQ76FSKUeXgfdx6Dz1Jg6hBy/1751835301026.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waving at the Wrong Person: My Cringe Moment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Calabar is a place where you think everyone knows everybody, well at least I think. This day stands out so clearly in my mind that I giggle (and cringe a little) every time it passes through my mind. It]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@suqueen/waving-at-the-wrong-person</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@suqueen/waving-at-the-wrong-person</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-176874]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[suqueen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:31:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmdFek5JA3XnmedziFuUe5fXPDeqcZPsvnrRkHh3FyotGp/1752524636879.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item></channel></rss>