After 34 years of marriage, there are bound to be rough patches when every conversation seems to turn into an argument. When you pass each other in the kitchen without saying a word. When you spend most of the day – and sometimes the night – in separate rooms. Unfortunately, it was during one of…
Lola Shoneyin’s novel, The Secret Lives of the Four Wives, touched me so deeply, bringing up issues that you would hope would be obsolete by now but are unfortunately alive and not-so-well. The story takes place in Nigeria and revolves around Baba Segi and his four wives, who are all such multi-layered characters, you feel like…
My friend gave me a copy of Living Life in Full Bloom: 120 Daily Practices to Deepen Your Passion, Creativity & Relationships, and – spoiler alert – I will be buying copies to pass on as gifts to people I love.
If you want to see why people in this country are so angry, go see Money Monster. In the movie, a frustrated young man named Kyle (Jack O’Connell) finds his way on to the set of a hot financial show and threatens to kill host Lee Gates (George Clooney) on live TV for recommending a…
One of the most valuable aspects of reading memoirs is being able to get an inside look at a way of life so different from yours and learning how other people cope with the challenges they have to face. Award-winning political cartoonist Jeffrey Koterba has written an open, honest and completely intriguing account of growing…