DEAR DIARY : Toilet is a matter of dignity

>There is a famous cartoon on the web of a frog whose head is inside a crane. The poor frog holds the crane’s neck and looks like he is doing whatever he can to keep himself from being swallowed. Does this sound familiar? Sometimes, life gets us like that. Like the frog, we struggle to keep ourselves from being swallowed by the hardships of life.

>Leaving on a Jet plane is a song by John Denver, but most people will identify it with its first line All my bags are packed I’m ready to go. My mother loved this song and she hummed it every morning under the bougainvillaea tree as she took a nap. Sooner or later her demise hit us like thunder on a sunny day.

>It was just last week when I wrote about street harassment. I talked about two videos I had seen, one was of a male journalist in Egypt who disguised himself as a woman. He experienced physical and verbal abuse.

>Tutindaga Anania Mwambungu was my friend. We weren’t the kind that spent all weekends together, or chat over the phone every now and then. We only shared brief moments when she was alive.

I was following the First Ladies Summit on child marriage which recently took place in Lusaka closely since I had received an invitation to attend the same but could not make it due to unavoidable circumstances.

>Tell me one thing ladies, what part of your body do you want to change? You know, that part you want to be bigger or smaller. You don’t have to think hard. I know that you know it. It is good to admit it to yourself that you dislike that part of your body.

>When it comes to how we eat, the psychology behind our eating behaviour makes me appreciate the stories behind each meal.

>A friend of mine wrote something on her Facebook page that put me on a reflection-mode. Her last year was a tough one and she had a sort of ‘theme’ to help her go through it.

>It is Christmas next week. Yaaaay. It has actually been Christmas the whole month. I was communicating with a friend who is in the US, and he would end by saying ‘Merry Christmas’.