Blog2 – Edith MN Kyazze

Writing

The Reason I Write Anything at All.

https://youtu.be/9WYSWaBIWBY?si=pk-jptedNyfHsXcQ Have you ever wondered why writers write? I mean, haven’t we heard and read about it all already? There are millions, no, billions, of writings out there and yet, we still write. Where do the words come from? How can you […]

EdithJanuary 17, 2024November 20, 2024

Writing

Green Garden Eggs

This book explores themes of family, identity, and secrecy. Christina and Josef are parents to two children, Hallie and Nathaniel, who were conceived through unconventional means. They carry the burden of that secret. The book delves into the emotional complexities of […]

EdithNovember 30, 2024December 16, 2024

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What Food do you Eat in Africa?

https://youtu.be/z23RVqG0mTA?si=l25HB2Y-rPkQWH6- What food do you eat in Africa? They ask. Are you African? How many times have you heard that question? How did you react or what answer did you give in that regard? I was once seated in a coffee […]

EdithNovember 30, 2024

FAMILY

Anger as a Buffer

https://youtu.be/Gc7x_m7JXu0 Anger as a Buffer…what it’s like not to have a sister Using anger as a buffer. I have two sisters, Elizabeth, and Jean; our firstborn, Christina, aka, Cissy, died over 3 decades ago, at the age of only 31. My sisters […]

EdithSeptember 26, 2024October 24, 2024

Do You Speak English

Languages, Accents, and then English (and the age of the internet)

ALLO! A British person called an Italian ticketing office. “Allo,” said the Italian person, listening in on the call. “Ok, sir, Oldon(Hold on.)” “What do you mean all done? I haven’t given my details yet,” the British person complained. “Oldon, please,” “No, […]

EdithMay 28, 2024September 27, 2024

Animal Love

My Third Cat My Deepest Cut

How I Lost All My Four Cats Spikey “Mum, can we please keep this cat? Please, please, let’s keep it,” Giorgia, the younger of my two daughters by then seven years old, cried out. Our neighbour’s cat had just given birth to […]

EdithMay 11, 2024May 20, 2024

The Traveler

The Smells of Travel

What’s that smell? I wondered, holding my breath and opening my previously closed eyes. No, it can’t be. Here? In this place? I mean, look where I am. And yet it smells like… No matter where you are, and for whatever reason, every […]

EdithMay 2, 2024May 10, 2024

Blissfulness of Ignorance

I Saw People in Line, I Lined Up Too

I spent some time in Venezuela right at the beginning of a bad to worse economic period in the country; thus low-to no supplies of simple daily needs like sugar, salt, flour, toilet paper, and stuff. Supermarket shelves were starting to go […]

EdithFebruary 26, 2024

The Traveler

The City of Three Questions

The Happiest Place…and the City of Three Questions Having previously been, three times, to its almost always over-cast, and chilled capital city, and other cities around the country, I was not surprised when it was named the happiest place in the world in […]

EdithJanuary 19, 2024April 24, 2024

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Silver Lining to Sleeplessness

Lack of sleep comes without warning for responsible sleepers. One moment, you are in a slumber, turning around in bed the next, you are wide awake. From a deep snooze, you end up with meandering open eyes. It’s as if sleep […]

EdithNovember 27, 2023January 19, 2024

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