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"You're a Badass How to Stop Doubting your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life."Jen Sincero Admittedly, the book title is a little bit cheesy. If someone asked what I was reading, I'd just show them the title and leave them to grapple with whatever thoughts...
Lami had wanted to tell her mother that she thought it was pitiful, this continuous mourning of a man who left his wife and two-year old daughter for another woman.
One evening in February a few men were congregated around a fire set burning upon a tyre, wood and several other debris. They belonged to a small division of the Biafran army and were awaiting commands to trudge forward. Their gray uniforms were worn old beyond the...
W It was Don Marquis who likened the publication of a volume of verse to dropping rose petals down the Grand Canyon and waiting on an echo. A chapbook is a small assemblage of poems, usually no more than 40 pages. It often centers on a precise theme, such as travel...
The Winner for the Dec 2018, Freedom Magazine Awards is finally unveiled!
Orekelewa, Look at you. Shining like a beacon even in the melee. With a body as lithe as Tay Iwar's video star. Unaware that always dressing as if going to a soiree, only makes that shade of black shine brighter. Elejetutu, You move with the natural grace of a dolphin...
CHARACTER PERSONALITY (2) We get from our previous post that Personality is the sum total of the way an individual feels or thinks towards a particular subject. We also trail the path that we can reveal the personality of our characters via their...
THE CHARACTER'S PERSONALITY (1) Personality refers to individual characteristic, patterns of thinking, feeling and mannerisms. That is, understanding how the various parts of a character come together. It’s important to understand how you reveal the personality of...
MEANT TO FLY You watch the woman who has come for her therapy sessions roam round your office not saying anything. You would let her come to your office anytime she wanted to let off steam. You knew that she was holding so much in and it was no good to her mental...
I remember being with a friend who talked about how she used pain to suppress pain. She gave me an example where she had had a stomach ache and had pinched herself, saying that the latter brought a certain kind of pain that was sharp enough to distract her from...
