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Breathe iiin…aawwttt
December ‘08My sons are away this week. They are spending it with my Uncle Alex and Aunt Margaret- with whom I used to spend weekends as a child and who happen to be the sitting president and first...
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A Human In His Own Right.
December ’08Vinyo is a handsome baby. Everyone says that. Not that I could think any differently even if a report from the World Independent Commission on Beauty stated the contrary. But it is still...
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curtain call.
Thank you everyone who ever read this blog for not crushing my belief that my children are exciting and I’m fascinating and all that. Thank you for the pleasure your caresses to my ego have given me. I...
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only fools never change their minds.
Having been thoroughly scolded this weekend by all manner of persons for the folly of exercising my freedom to end my blog, I’ve come to see the wisdom in their viewpoint. Even I have to admit it...
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Never again another Tylenol through my lips!
January 09.I’m a worst case scenario imaginer. It is not that I’m a pessimist. It is that I have a wildly hyperbolic imagination. It can take anything, however innocuous, and blow it up into a...
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Speak no evil
January 09The boys are bonding well. This pleases me greatly. Dovie has taken to his big brother role easily-far more so than I was led to anticipate- and I make a conscious effort to not make either...
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Ode to 'The Fine'.
January ‘09I have tried varied ways; stern tone, joking tone, cajoling tone, displeased tone, lengthy explanations, everything but a can-can routine to explain to my girls that I hate being pressured...
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One Goes, Another Comes.
January 09 Gladys has arrived in my household. She is replacing Christina who went away for five days for a funeral and later the same day she returned, was picked up by her uncle for a ‘purifying...
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Relief!
April ’09 Gladys has left. She came to the big city in search of glitz and money and the life she will live with us just doesn’t cut it. There isn’t much of a social life, there is lots of work and too...
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Article 15
I have been lax about updating this blog for a good while now. I've been writing but for some reason haven't got round to sharing those thoughts.A casual check here today showed me that people have...
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Prepping Up
For the third consecutive year, I am making preparations to go to law school. This is the final time. I have told my husband and parents that three is the magic number. Peter denied Jesus 3 times. God...
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A Garten Fit For My Kinder.
This week I have been nursery school hunting. On Monday, I grumbled about there not being a service I could search to find the nursery schools in West Legon and then just call them on the phone to ask...
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The Final Authority
The final authority in Ghana, it turns out, is the husband. His jurisdiction stretches from all matters domestic, through country/town of residence, past his partner’s career decisions, dipping into...
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Those Lovely Family Visits.
Kofi likes to visit members of his extended family. And he likes to do so spontaneously. We live within fifteen minutes of about eight of his aunts/great aunts. And they love it when they get to catch...
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Out Of The Hands of Babes
Kindergarten cop! That’s the name of the movie. Remember that? The one in which the cop becomes a teacher for some flaky reason or other. It was rather fanciful I recall, I may be wrong. It is to the...
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True Colours
I have acquired a new and profound respect for my elder sister. I see her in a very different light or more to the point from a very new perspective and it has sown in me a a deep admiration for ‘me...
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Giving unto Caesar
This post was written largely in response to AB's comment about the last post. Perhaps I do not make my meaning clear or perhaps the situation is not appreciable in an abstract context. So this post is...
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What Is In A Name?
At my mother’s inaugural, she talked about the peculiarly Ghanaian habit of having 50 names: the school name, Christian name, pet name, home name, nick name, and sometimes hidden name, all this before...
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Return Of The Mac
I would apologise for the long hiatus but that would be deceptive. It would suggest I could have but I didn’t post. I’m not really the wonder that I believe- and hope I delude others into believing-...
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Article 5
Change & DecaySome people cheerily share the details of their excretory mechanisms with the world- even strangers. And they do it without a second’s self-consciousness. Personally, I have never...
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Article 4
Babies Gone HumanThe good news is that my boys are becoming little people; with noticeable interests and strengths. The bad news is their vices and failings are beginning also to show. And I don’t know...
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Pushing Up out Of The Water
After nearly two years of silence, I'm endeavoring to shake this laziness that hides behind the demands of law school. Hopefully I will succeed both in returning to this blog and reviving your interest...
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Top 10 Things That Suck About Having Domestic Help-
All that glisters is not gold….. Gilded tombs do worms enfold. Shakespeare was not just rhyming. He was onto something there. People talk all the time about how having domestic help is great. It is,...
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How To Pull Out Your Hair Strand By Strand.
To the uninitiated, this may sound complicated; but it really is not. All it takes is a concerted effort to study legal accounting, civil pocedure and criminal procedure in quick succession....
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Fear
My overriding fears in this life are 2; that I will die young and my children will not remember me as I don’t remember my godmother. When I speak of her, I say things like ‘ wo se she didn’t mince...
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