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Work is Work. Fun is Freedom.

Beginning of the year, my team and I had a meeting, we drew our strategies for the year. On Friday, I had a very long meeting with my boss to discuss what my team had in mind and how we intend to implement our strategies.    Let me just say; there’s a LOT of work for our team(it’s a bigger plan than we all thought). It weighed on my mind heavily. I am not one to pretend, my emotions give me away. A crazy Friday meeting can rattle your weekend. I got home with so much on my mind.  Whatever pushed me to go for Wanlov, Worlasi and Sena’s concert must have cared so much about me and my mental health. I don’t usually go out on Friday nights but I did on 04/02/2022 after my date had taken a rain check. I was expecting Anguah to also show up somehow but she didn’t.  I had a visitor(he encouraged me to step out). I did! And did I have an awesome-lone fun? Absolutely! Best part was; I was alone with my thoughts and allowed kind strangers into my space (heaven laid the best p...

And Then Came Warona!

It is still very early in the year, so Happy New Year is in order. A year ago, I welcomed an absolutely beautiful and adorable baby girl , who m  “the aunties” have aptly named Warona  (a Southern African name meaning Ours) . The journey leading to her birth and the 12 months after her birth have  been   one of the most i nteresting period s  in my life so far. If you are like some Ghanaians (I daresay Africans) you would have done your calculations by now. Yes, I conceived  during the early days  of the COVID-19 pandemic when restrictions and lockdown measures were the order of the day. Suffice it to say I didn’t observe social distancing when I should have (that’s just on a lighter note). Apart from nausea that lasted for a greater part of the  40-week journey (we really ought to stop thinking of pregnancy as a 9-month event), I was lucky to have a relatively easy pregnancy. The hustle and bustle that characterized our daily lives was down to...