New Interesting Blogs
I stumbled across the blog 17 years, 8 months, 15 days last week, I think, from my WordPress stats page. It details the journey of a woman returning from Canada to Nigeria for the first time in years...
View ArticleA Case for Blogging
‘”The book is dead” – Ikhide. “Ikhide is dead.” – The Book ‘ – Grafitti. There is no doubt that new technologies taking over the culture of publishing have sort of made the book redundant. But how...
View ArticleTwo-Thirds Gone
By midnight today, the second third of this year will be gone for good and again we’ll wonder where all the time went. Just four months more and we’ll be in another year, making new resolutions and...
View ArticleDotdotdot
This is how writing procrastination works: you tell yourself that you have nothing worth saying, and you wait until such a time when you think you do. Usually that time never comes and you stare day by...
View ArticleLaughing at Myself
It’s been long since I last laughed at myself on this blog. I should remedy that, I thought this evening. Should I tell you the story of my one of many first encounters with a duvet (often also called...
View ArticleWine Tasting in the Town
The last time I went wine-tasting was in September. There was an exhibition of the wines of Missouri and wineries from parts of the state came to showcase what they have. It took place at the Botanical...
View ArticleInterlude
There is no writer’s block, just laziness. Perhaps. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for an e-zine on the motivations for blogging, the challenges it provides, and the general pleasure of having...
View ArticleA Review
No, not of a book, movie or song although that would be fun, but of the year itself. Yes it’s too early to do that since we still have about nine days to go, but it is amazing to see how close we are...
View ArticleA Little More Than Fun
I enjoy the trips I make – when I can afford to make them, most times between the moments of mouthing profanities at mandatory fees of the graduate school. (More angry posts on this later). They...
View ArticleBook, Blook, Bloog, Blog…
Ikhide Ikheloa has joined the blogging community. This next sentence, otherwise supposed to describe him in a few words and put him in the context of Nigerian and African literature, will however be...
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