Archive for the 'Personal' Category



Woo Me! 49 Comments

A gallon of gas was only a dollar fifty, and the light indicating that my car needed some has been lit for a couple of days and I had avoided driving it. Tuesday was the day I promised to drive my girlfriend at the time to the airport. I planned to use the four dollars [...]

The Last Straw 56 Comments

By no measure, I am no literary guru, but idioms resonate within me. As the Arab proverb indicates that the last straw that broke the camel’s back. So everything has a breaking point; that instance where you realize that something is completely wrong; the point of no return; the boiling point. Films and books use [...]

Confused 134 Comments

A rebuttal from Ethio-Girl Hello let me introduce myself. My name is CONFUSED. Yes, that is my name .I was not always called CONFUSED. In fact before I was Confused the Girl I was also the proud owner of 2 other more conventional names so you can see why I opted for a third, if [...]

She was in my dream 32 Comments

It was no surprise that I would dream of a person I had seen only twice. Magical moments and surprise stunners of beauty and kind hearts are meant to be dreamt. So this time, I had dreamt of a beautiful lady whom I’ve fancied quite a bit. I still remember the very first moment I [...]

Walls 87 Comments

“Just do your thing, man. It’s all yours,” he bellowed, dramatically gesticulating towards one empty white wall of his new condo’s dining room. It wasn’t furnished, yet. In fact, the place looked like it needed a lot of work. The wall-to-wall carpeting spanned the living and dining rooms, decorated with insolent stains and holes. The [...]