Sometimes, I will be walking around the neighbourhood and all of a sudden I will be overwhelmed by a smell that blasts me back on a nostalgic wave to summers in Harare, Zimbabwe: a sweet, hazy smell of sugar cane, sweet dill and citrus. Sometimes, on those rare days, when the sun is shining and it begins to rain, I get flashes of a family trip to the granite hills of Domboshawa. Sometimes, when I am faced with questions of magnitude and immortality, my mind invariably takes m

It is November already, and for me that means that I am settling down and participating in the month-long writing sprint challenge - NaNoWriMo, also known as, "National Novel Writing Month". It will be the second time that I participate, and the second time that I wonder to myself: will I be able to harness the power of Social, self-discipline, and the love of writing, in order to reach the goal of fifty thousand words by the end of the month? The whole concept of the month