Just under 3 months ago I came “back” home to Somalia. I’ve never been here before but for years the words “back home” would slip out of my mouth, imperceptibly and unthinkingly. …

I like to talk and I talk a lot. At times I run out of breath mid-sentence and within 2 seconds I launch back into my monologue or tirade. Having recently moved away from many of my friends I find that I can no longer express my emotions in their…

These days I find myself looking for time and space to cry. I want to do it most of the time. As I write this someone just walked in on me crying luckily for me they were either too kind to mention it or they didn’t notice. Who knew a…

Decisions make me question my reality. Mostly because I have a choice, for the first time in my life. My decisions are on me and my time is mine. If I don’t want thing A in my life, I remove thing A, but the effects of that thing remain. So…

Unprecedented times, we are living in unprecedented times, the times that we are living in is unprecedented. Currently we were unable to precedent the times we are living in. Do I sound a little mad? Let me explain. Over the last few months the word that has been used to…

I met up with one of my favourite people the other day, to have a meal, catch up, see one another and just be together. As we sat down to have our delicious food though something else left a bitter taste in my mouth, our inability to talk about “happy…

Recently I realised how interactions of a flirty or romantic nature utterly exhaust me. At first I didn’t think much of it but soon I found myself making mental risk analysis’s for any man who talked to me. Within 5 minutes I would decide how many minutes of my life…