A writer's haven

Hello Friends and Readers, Happy New Year to y'all. Glad to be back on blog world ( Can't stop them smiles from coming). So, I haven't posted anything since September 2011. ****Sigh. 2011 was pretty much a rough year for me. I learnt about my dad's medical diagnosis. It was a horrible nightmare.A hard period where I learnt to be strong for both of us. Coupled with school, writing was put aside so I could deal with all the issues in my life. I pray that I come to a point in my life where I'd be able to write and put my creativity to work no matter the situation. As I type these words, I'm still in shock over the death of my father. He passed on to glory on January 10th 2012. Hmmmph!! I look at his pictures, and he seems so alive. Sometimes, I say to myself 'daddy brought me here and left me all alone'. It all didn't make sense to me when my dad started filing for me to live in the U.S.A. a couple of years earlier. I had a fun life in Nigeria,...

Hi Everyone, Good to be back again. It’s been a little while. And to my friends who have been expecting the rest of the Diaries of a New Yorker, I can promise you that you won’t be disappointed in the end.  Sometimes, it’s difficult to keep up with one thing because there are thousands of other things that require one’s attention.  I smile as I type this. I need to be able to multitask I guess. There are dozens of thoughts in my head even as I try to put this together. For a long time, I considered myself “A Melancholic”. Going by Tim LaHaye’s book; the Spirit Controlled Temperament, People who are “melancholic” in nature tend to be loyal to their family and friends, extremely careful, respectful, follow the norms of the society, as well as family traditions.. A major weakness of this type of temperament is pessimism. A person with this temperament is very introspective, always sees life from a serious perspective, and is often feeling burdened and brought down by temp...