In my other life, I’m what one might call a ‘budding entrepreneur’ - though, between you and me, it might just be a tad late in the day for me to be called a budding anything. So I’m thinking I might as well just go...
So last Saturday, a young lady - let’s call her Bernice - asks to speak to me for a few minutes. She needs to tell me something, she says. Urgently. I know this must be important - she recently re-committed her life to Christ and...
"KINGS" - Book Launch in Pictures. What a beautiful evening it was - Wednesday 20th November 2019! Together with ten other titles, my new book "KINGS" was launched at the Kenya Faith Writers Network Annual Book Launch, during a fine cocktail event, at Double Tree by...
When I was about eleven years old I stumbled upon my first “grown-up” novel – a thriller titled The Naked Face, by acclaimed author Sidney Sheldon. The book was hugely popular at the time - a veritable bestseller - and is still available on Amazon...
FROM THE BOOK "KINGS". ---- KING JEROBOAM I: Kingdom of Israel, 931 - 909 BCE Jeroboam, son of Nebat. Tsk, tsk, tsk. No doubt you have come across this man several times, in the chronicles of the northern kingdom of Israel. Jeroboam, son of Nebat did more evil than all who were before him… And… Omri did evil in...
FROM THE BOOK "KINGS". ---- KING ZIMRIKingdom of Israel, Circa 884 BCE Zimri, commander of King Elah’s chariots (half of them), is a crafty man. A cunning, patient man. And he has a plan. He has been mulling it for some time, biding his time, awaiting the perfect moment. He desires to be...
She came wearing a loose, threadbare dress, worn rubber slippers, and a tired headscarf, barely concealing rough braids underneath. Her thin, frail frame said it all. “She looked thin and bony,” Lily tells me as we begin the interview for this story. “And I remember noticing that...
I'm not much of an artist. Fact is, I have not one artistic bone in my body. But, attending a church conference a few years ago, I felt unusually drawn to a lively discussion on Christian artists. The speaker was a good friend of mine, and I had...
So let’s get back to our Honey story, shall we? In case you missed us, we’re seated somewhere at a cozy cottage in Lukenya, enjoying animated chit chat after a fabulous dinner. We’re fifteen ladies - mostly in our thirties and forties – and have been...
So last weekend I attended a coming-of-age party for my niece, a delightful young lass just turning eighteen. I had never been to such an event - my own coming-of-age session having consisted of five words, sternly delivered as I entered my pre-teens: “Do Not Play With Boys,” Mum...