Lifestyle & Travel
When you fly home at night, slipstreaming lassitude and loneliness sleepy wind hissing your name encasing and loving your frame, do you ever wonder, before feet touch down on stillness kissing terra firma when you will put yourself first? ©Assumpta Ozua 2015 I had a really busy weekend – Really. Busy. Having said that, most… Continue reading Superwoman Syndrome
The past three and a half years of my life have been inundated with comparisons. Whether it’s others making them, or those made by myself, I have found said happiness-hiding thoughts to be debilitating at times and woefully counterproductive. When I started my Mary Kay business almost four years ago, the comparisons came in quick… Continue reading The Problem With Comparisons
I have a tendency to wear a lot of black and white. There was a point in time in my life where I wore black almost exclusively. Needless to say, my mother was not a fan of this phase. When I began introducing colour I started with white, then red, then navy and sort of… Continue reading Black and White
Things I Wish You Knew There is something in you, lighter than loyalty but darker than desertion indefinable enough to confine truth in my mouth it’s been 7 years and I finally feel the itch psychologists refer to but I am struggling to tell you.
“...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?” ― R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor Earlier today, I was stalking reading my friends blog (lifeinrhymesandlines) and came across a post she wrote back in 2013 that resonated with me. Along… Continue reading Confide In Me
I was catching up on some of the blogs I follow and stumbled on a post about taking stock. Given that we’re now half way through the year, instead of my normal creative offering, I thought that I would use the same prompts to form a post. Here goes: Making: A mid-year assessment of my… Continue reading Taking Stock
Two weeks ago I took a quick trip to Nigeria. Ridiculous right? Who takes quick trips to Africa unless you’re a business[wo]man? But effectively I was there for a long weekend. It was quite the distance to go for a short space of time, but when you have a business to run / lots of work… Continue reading A Long Weekend in Nigeria
Have you ever wanted someone to be more than what they are? That probably sounds really abstract - in fact, I know it does. But right now I mean it within the context of a friendship. I believe that I am not alone when I say that there are some people in my life who… Continue reading Steadfast Wish
...when you have Valentine's reds! February is supposedly the month of love thus, in the lead up to Valentine's Day, people either get worked up trying to make plans or about not having any! *queue melancholic violin music* I listen to heated conversations and read impassioned arguments on social media and blogs arguing for and… Continue reading Who Needs the Blues…
Me Today You Tomorrow 