Taken Away_JOYS OF TRAVEL_The Lookout_Breakfast with Tiffany
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Taken Away
My brother was cooking dinner, and my mother was watching the news. She never watched the news, she always said that they focused on the negative things and never on the positive things happening in the world. However, today was different, the war was only getting worse and she knew that. Countries that were previously not involved were putting their people inside the lion’s mouth, and our nation was one of them. But I thought otherwise, it's just a game of politics like any other. There's always a lot of drama but nothing actually ever happens, I don’t know why my mother was so worried about ...
JOYS OF TRAVEL
JOYS OF TRAVELIt sounds daft, but I had been planning this trip for a long time. Lagos to London, I had done by plane countless times; just once, I thought, let me try it by land. On the map, it does not look that difficult. What I was fixated on was to drive from Lagos across the River Niger to Sokoto and then into Niger Republic and Mali and then through Timbuktu to Tangiers. This would be the most difficult part of the trip. I reckoned the whole trip back to London would not take more than a month. This was in the days when border crossings were more leisurely guarded. The vicissitudes of ...
The Lookout
I have to escape the tatters of my ruined life, so I flee to the outdoors. Hiking, camping, and rock climbing have always been in my blood, but all my friends say I might have overdone it. They could be right.But one look at my view makes me secure in my decision. I have a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree panorama of the majestic North Cascade mountain range in a remote part of north-central Washington, with near unlimited visibility on this cloudless July morning. Precipitous, snow-capped summits reach for the blue sky in every direction. Deep emerald forests extend as far as the eye can see in...
Breakfast with Tiffany
“I’m going to have to let you go. We’re not financially stable right now and – as a result – we’re restructuring. We’re letting numerous people go. It’s not you – we’re just downsizing until we can restructure to the approval of the investors. I’m asking you to clean out your cubicle by five o’clock tonight. Thanks for your time.” Those were the words from my supervisor’s mouth one Friday afternoon and just before the holiday. The company had pulled this shit before, but it never impacted me. They always made things look good on paper and then the company would be acquired. I had been there fi...