A couple of weeks back, I took time off work because I was feeling ill. It was the longest I’ve been home since my maternity leave. It was particularly striking because I was alone: my husband went to work and my son to daycare. So, like any recently bedridden person would do, I got out of…
Congratulations! A pregnancy kit or your hospital lab has confirmed the news. You’re pregnant. Maybe you’ve been planning and hoping for the Big Fat Positive. Maybe it’s all a bit of a shock. Still, it requires you to make a number of decisions quickly. Who to tell? When to tell? How to organise your home…
I don’t remember how and when we became friends but that’s social media for you, isn’t it? Kachi and I have exchanged DMs and messages for a few years now. And thanks to our blogs and social media, I feel like I’ve known her all my life, even though we didn’t formally “meet” till last…
It’s more than spa dates or manicures, mama.
At the risk of getting pelted with seasoning cubes, I’d like to state that I like the Maggi ad. I say it up front so that all readers who hate the ad and have no interest in reading a contrary viewpoint can close this page and save their data & time. If you haven’t seen…
Why do some people do better at work than others? How do top performers do less, work better and achieve more? According to Morten T. Hansen, they do it through a profound understanding of “what a person should work on (job design); how the person should improve over time (learning); why a person should exert…
One morning, I rode up the elevator with a bunch of my work colleagues. The elevator stopped on the sixth floor, and one of them, a tall, light-skinned fella with an Afro, got off. As the doors closed, another of my colleagues asked, “Ah ah. Is that how you say good-bye? No good-bye kiss?” Yes,…
The year I gave birth to my son was the year I got my worst performance ranking. To be fair, it wasn’t a bad ranking. It was average. But when you have a reputation as a high performer, average feels like a death blow to your career. To adjust to my new family circumstances, I…
As millennial women, we have been told all sorts. You can’t have it all. You have to choose between a career and a family. Work-life balance is unattainable. It’s a myth. And many others. But it’s 2017 and in case you haven’t noticed, women have been breaking glass ceilings in their careers WHILST managing a…
I just want to be good at what I do. I want to be a good engineer. A good wife. A good mama. A good writer/blogger. I want to be a good friend. A good child of God. A good daughter. A good sister. Cousin. I want to earn a decent income. But “good”…
