Maame Blue 14/01/2019 Maame Blue 14/01/2019

a way

A lot of things have changed. It's a new year but I haven't done my usual round-up of the previous year. I guess on the whole, I am feeling 'a way' about a lot of things.

Maame Blue 14/11/2018 Maame Blue 14/11/2018

the reject queen

I am the rejection queen. I don’t administer too many rejections myself, but I have become an expert at receiving them.

Maame Blue 05/10/2018 Maame Blue 05/10/2018

what london makes

Today I took a different route to work. There’s nothing special about that except that I got to see how London is still vines of roads and pockets of alleyways.

Maame Blue 24/08/2018 Maame Blue 24/08/2018

used to it

I recently read an article about reverse culture shock and how it can take some people 6 months before they feel right again. I think I’m somewhere in between.

09/10/2016 09/10/2016

the shark

"Home is where the heart is."

I have always struggled with this phrase. It sounds simple enough but actually, I'm not sure it means anything more than "Home is where you like to sleep", or "Home is where the person you like, likes to sleep"; but that sounds a bit like the mantra of a stalker, so maybe it's not quite as simple as that.

02/10/2016 02/10/2016

11.40pm

It’s 11.40pm. I’ve been circling my living room for the past ten minutes, humming the same tune over and over again, with a bottle of whiskey perched casually under my arm. The pacing is self-soothing, as is the humming.