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• Scrutiny

  Posted: March 26, 2009, 5:03 pm by Juliet Maruru

  Born of a conversation between me, a friend, and the Senior editor at Storymoja, the topic of which also landed on a certain blog affiliated with the above people, I went into a personal scrutiny moment. I’d tell you it was about my growth as a writer, except it is not. My writing world has been [...]

• There’s a Coffee House around the corner…

  Posted: March 24, 2009, 4:04 pm by Juliet Maruru

  A few months ago, a friend read one of my pieces and wrote to me. She said that it seemed that I was not afraid of voicing my opinions. I responded with one of my goofy answers. But wait… I am afraid of voicing my opinions. That is why I will hide them in goofy comic [...]

• True Beauty

  Posted: March 20, 2009, 4:58 pm by Juliet Maruru

  So, I am stuck in the development of my children’s book, I am pissed off at being blamed for other people’s mistakes, and I am not doing very well with the ultimatum I mentioned last week. Blue Friday. But since I am very good at telling people that it is not always about them, and I [...]

• The ‘ Cut off my Tongue’ show rescheduled

  Posted: March 18, 2009, 12:16 pm by Juliet Maruru

  Storymoja introduces “Cut Off My Tongue”  by Sitawa Namwalie, again.  Is it a play, is it dramatized poetry, what is it?  Whatever! What we can confirm is that you will be entertained, challenged, invigorated and even understood.   Until now “Cut off My Tongue” has been one of Kenya’s best-kept secrets.  Yet in 2008, after just two [...]

• A Poetry Soup Finalist- Gold Digger by Juliet Maruru

  Posted: March 17, 2009, 11:23 am by Juliet Maruru

  I don’t usually write poetry, if I do it will be about something that shakes me up pretty bad. This one was inspired by a ‘fight’ with someone who has since become very dear to me. I cried, I wrote it, and then I submitted it to the September 2008 Poetry Soup Contest. Surprise! It was one [...]

• On an average day…

  Posted: March 13, 2009, 4:08 pm by Juliet Maruru

  So yesterday was my day to moan. Which reminds me of the time I was so pissed by a friend’s constant complaints that I wrote a piece based on his moaning. Actually, my title when I submitted it for publishing on an online magazine here, was The Anguish of a Kenyan Man. A certain editor [...]

• Blue Thursday….

  Posted: March 12, 2009, 6:46 pm by Juliet Maruru

  Well, Thursday, usually an intense day on any week for me. Today by far more than any other thursdays. I am pissed off and anxious. Pissed off because some people seem to think that no one else matters except their own selves. Anxious because someone gave me an ultimatum and I do not do very [...]

• Cut off my Tongue Show cancelled due to riots will be Rescheduled

  Posted: March 11, 2009, 4:34 pm by Juliet Maruru

  To all ‘Cut off my Tongue’ Friends, Due to the demonstrations last night, we were forced to cancel the Cut off my Tongue performance at the French Cultural Centre, yesterday, March 10th, 2009, at 7pm. We were concerned about the safety of the Cut off my Tongue audience in view of the uncertainty in the city. The [...]

• Writing Someday -The Novel

  Posted: March 4, 2009, 10:42 am by Juliet Maruru

  Someday is the title of my very first novel. I wrote it during the NaNoWriMo of 2004. I had always wanted to write a novel. Actually, I had written a few of them in my teens which I promptly destroyed when I read them after they were done. This is the very first novel that [...]

• S-T-O-O-P-I-D

  Posted: March 3, 2009, 10:44 am by Juliet Maruru

  Well, I have several definitions for the word, along with the other spelling. Stupid. 1. Any man who believes that women have lesser rights by virtue of being women. 2. Any woman who believes men have no rights at all by virtue of their being men. 3. Any person who judges and discriminates against other people by virtue [...]

• S-T-O-O-P-I-D

  Posted: March 2, 2009, 5:54 pm by Juliet Maruru

  Well, I have several definitions for the word, along with the other spelling. Stupid. 1. Any man who believes that women have lesser rights by virtue of being women. 2. Any woman who believes men have no rights at all by virtue of their being men. 3. Any person who judges and discriminates against other people by virtue [...]

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