Dear diary
All journal entries
storiesThe storage room
A last-born, siblings away at boarding school, and a storage room full of books.
hikingSabyinyo suicidal mission
A 3 a.m. alarm, a volcano with a reputation, and a guide's warning about the part of the trail nobody forgets.
adultingThe New Midlife Crisis is The Pressure of the 20s
Whoever said your twenties are the best years of your life owes us an explanation.
StoryMid 20s, Maiden names and Marriages: My Thoughts on Marriage
2023: the year my high-school friends agreed, apparently in a meeting, that nobody ends the year unmarried.
Passport
Every stampFrom The Hague to Seoul, a volcano at 3 a.m. and a city that became a second home. Pick a postcard.
NairobiJanuary 2026TripNairobi, second homeBack in Nairobi six months later, this time with a museum built to trick you.
NairobiJune–July 2025TripNairobi, first visitMurals, painted buses and a city that moves faster than its traffic. The start of a habit.
MusanzeApril 2025AdventureBack to the mountainsAnother northern hike, a walking stick that became a friend, and a visit to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund campus.
ZanzibarMarch 2025TripZanzibar: white sand, wide hatsFour days of Indian Ocean blue, Stone Town alleys and a hat that did a lot of heavy lifting.
RwandaDecember 2024CommunityWith the Utunyange teamA small gallery from Utunyange Health Initiative, where I volunteer on gender equality and project work.
Sabyinyo VolcanoNovember 2024AdventureSabyinyo: a 3 a.m. start and a notorious trailI woke up at 3 a.m. to climb a volcano with a reputation. The full field report is in the journal.
BK Arena, KigaliSeptember 2024CultureCourtside at the BALBasketball Africa League energy in Kigali: loud, fast and impossible to watch sitting down.
Lake KivuJune 2024TripOdeur de l'océanLake Kivu is a lake. Rwandans know this. We still call it the ocean.
KigaliJune 2024CultureGallery hours and a pair of wingsAn afternoon among paintings, and a mural that asks you to stand in front of it.
SeoulMay–June 2024TripSeoul, and a museum about taxes (yes, really)Two weeks in South Korea for a tax policy and administration workshop, including a national museum dedicated to the history of tax.
KigaliApril 2024CulturePaint night: a sunset I am taking full credit forOne canvas, one evening, one very proud artist.
NyungweMarch 2024AdventureNyungwe adventuresA 2024 run through tea country and a rope-course adventure on a different visit.
Amsterdam and The HagueOctober 2022TripBicycles, big skies and a pier at sunsetThe Young Expert Programmes took me to the Netherlands for nine days of programme sessions, new friends and more bicycles than I knew existed.Currently obsessed
Everything I'm into
Chicks
- Rewatched
- ∞
- Best scene
- Latrell, on the ground:
Oh, the deception! The betrayal! Man, you deceived me!
Press play
Reading
The storage room never really closed.
Girls are smart.
That was a rule in our house. I want more girls to grow up with the information, confidence and choices to make it true in their own lives.
I volunteer with Utunyange Health Initiative as a Gender Equality Advocate and Project Manager. Our work connects girls’ health, rights and opportunity through education and community action.
The scenes
Three favourite scenes. My own versions are still to come.
Same me, office hours: work, essays, hosting and consultations.
