Christmas: The Real Story Behind It
My Grandma, bless her soul, had a gift for storytelling. Every other Christmas, she’d gather us round and tell us what she said was the true story of Christmas, one stripped of all the glam added to the one we see on TV and read in books. Long time ago, there lived a fairly rotund […]
The life of a mast
Many times in life, youâll wake up and find masts that donât belong to you in your backyard or at your radio station. I spent many of my formative years studying physics and agriculture, so I recall that masts grow in moist areas and in areas of good loam soil. Loam soil because it has […]
Things UMEME Has Added To Our Vocabulary
Things UMEME has added to our vocabulary Every other day we come up with a new expletive to use when referring to the entity charged with keeping our homes and work-places lit. Be that as it may, the baby is being thrown out with the bath water. In all this, we never stop to thank […]
Corporate bureaucracy kills the simple things of office life
If youâve worked for a company for some time, you know that the true beauty of any company is in its bureaucracy. You simply cannot walk up to the locker and pick pensâŚno. You need to go to Hadijah because she has the pen that signs the permission slip that grants you access to the […]
Who deserves a raise at work
Iâve never been a boss at a work place. The palm reader I went to said Iâd be boss in a few years so it wonât be long now; âBoss Peter, coming to a workplace near youâ. I imagine it is very hard being a boss. When do you allow employees to go to pee? […]