My struggles with depression and finding lasting romantic love
These are things that make me happy. The stars brightness turns in the
air. Dandelions. Reading Hemingway. The pouring rain. A switched off
television. The magical...
My best friend is my psychiatrist
I’ll leave
the pain for tomorrow. Won’t even think about it until tomorrow. That is, if
tomorrow ever comes. So, I walk in the present, barefoot,...
The African Renaissance- poets
The Dutch poet Joop Bersee, has been
gifted confidante to me, selfless mentor, and I’ve have come to the beliefs,
the norms, the value of the...
What Emily Dickinson can teach us
The sun is a laughing, talking, walking
miracle today. If it shines, it shines only for me and Lavinia. What
perfection, because it shines with an...
Amherst
How am I supposed to live without father?
He is passed. Gone into the hereafter. He is never to return. While, yes, I am
still very...
Africa: The next chapter begins
How does a continent decline? Corruption.
Misappropriation of funds. Leadership, where leadership, the leaders of South
Africa, or the leaders of a particular individual African country,...
The captive spirit: Bipolar creativity and genius
We are seduced by
people, individuals’ who achieve extraordinarily. I never thought I would be
living the life that I am living now. I am literally...
Feminist Technoscience
‘Networked
feminism is a phenomenon that can be described as the online mobilization and
coordination of feminists in response to perceived sexist, misogynistic,
racist, and other discriminatory...
Survivors: Romantic love, the writing life and my heroine, Virginia Woolf
Her hair came undone
somehow in the water. And how it spread out. It was a flame. It was something
significant fanning, framing her beautiful, wonderful...
Alone in the dark: The Sylvia Plath Effect and the Northern Areas poet
I was 16 when I first attempted to take my own life. I was seeing a
psychiatrist (he of the Einsteinian-hair, he had studied at...