Othame's Reflections… ponderings of 'The Old Man'

My birthday last year coincided with what was celebrated (in the USA) as ‘Mothers Day’. So, because I am the first born, that day was also the 62 anniversary of my mother becoming a mum. Typically, in my chat with […]

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) My Paris to London train was scheduled for only four and half hours after I crossed the finish line of the Paris Marathon. So, […]

In a social media post, I mentioned coincidences in my Paris Marathon 2024 bib number that suggested special approval. Well, Paris Marathon 2024 actually happened six months to the day after my father’s death. It also happens that six featured […]

As 2022 drew to a close, the wish I expressed in my New Year message was that we could all, in 2023, find the courage and strength not to wait for life to “stop being hard before deciding to be […]

In February 2022, 31 year old ‘Nightbirde’ (Jane Marczewski) lost her five year battle with cancer; eight months after using a reality TV platform to advise: “You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy”. […]

As it happens, this Father’s Day falls exactly a month after my dad’s 90th birthday. As a family, we looked forward to a day we saw and still see as a huge blessing, because we only need lift our heads […]

The very simple theme for International Women’s Day 2022 is “Break the Bias”; and anyone who has been on the wrong side of any form of bigotry will appreciate the challenge in that. The words are easy, but the actions […]

So it’s going to be three days of mourning the Freetown fuel tanker explosion dead with prayers as the main effort. And then what? I have no issues with prayer, but what happened to the idea that we must do […]

My chat with the taxi driver from Saisbury train station to a nearby barracks covered the reason for my visit, his father’s service in the Royal Air Force, and global security issues before we discussed and arranged him picking me […]

Harassment of female professionals and politicians in Sierra Leone seems to have progressed into physical attacks against them. All this not long after activities at the top that were supposed to protect women from attitudes that saw them in ways […]