Dennessa Writes

Hey lovelies, welcome to today's episode - closure, a word that people truly use yet in absolute negation of its true meaning.  Looking back, I can’t believe this is where it all started, but… I was 9, I woke up to my mom’s soft sobs, thinking back now, I think she was trying to hide how broken she was, but I've always been a light sleeper so I heard the muffled, throaty, sobs. The ones that have you gasping for breath. My mom had just received an accursed call, my grandad, her father-in-law, and biggest support system had died. When I woke up, I rushed to her side and asked, tears filling my eyes, Mommy, why are you crying? She croaked her response, Grandpa is dead, before asking me to go and brush and get ready for school. It felt like the rug was pulled from under my feet and I landed bare-bottom on nails. All I knew about prayer at the time was this, the Lord does not despise the prayer of children, and a broken and contrite heart the Lord will not turn away. Armed with tho...

  Hey lovelies, let’s address something that people now call potato potatoes but is not shall we?   There's a new wave of the use of certain words in the past few years, words with very strong, deep, and heavy meanings if you don't mind my repetition of adjectives, but it is to stress the point that words like misogyny, chauvinism, male-identified and sexist aren't words to be used loosely, especially not because someone rubs you off the wrong way. I find that the influx of these words into our vocabulary, unfortunately, did not come with the meanings of the words because why is Amara calling Yinka a misogynistic because he has a preferred choice of appearance for his wife, her neighbor, who in fact doesn't mind?    Why is Tinuade calling Obialor chauvinistic because he has strong opinions she doesn't agree with? And why on earth is Dennis sexist because he believes that the right order of things is that humans should be heterosexual? I know that this Gen-Z era came...