Forcible Right Words

I have a system. An old, black dell system - Latitude series E6450 I damaged the battery. (Don't ask me how. Happened sometime last year.) I still haven't replaced it yet. I'm taking my time, good laptop batteries are hard to find. So last year, the system wasn't so useful to me. But now that my fountain of inspired words started flowing again. I saw the need to use the system much more often. And when I start using it sometimes, typing away the those transient words that may never show up again... [Digress] You know those fleeting breaths of inspiration that sometimes catch you unprepared as a writer? Those kind that will come to will you while you are in the bathroom, naked, with soap lather all over your body, threatening to enter your eyes if you dare open them to concentrate. You worry about running out there to capture inspiration in a receptacle e.g a pen, phone, recorder, anything, with the risk of falling down, injuring and shaming yourself i...

Hi there, I opened my blog today. March 4th. The only day with a command. 'March Forth.' What a day do great things. Opening a blog...the feeling...takes me back to that day. I remember that day... I was in the printing office for hours on end,   mentally drained, shifting my 'bom-bom' all over the place. But I remember the moment... Finally, the Hardcover copy of my final year project for my undergraduate studies was handed over to me. I was almost brought to tears.   I think I cuddled up my 'new born baby' and kissed it's imaginary nose like a mother who just put to bed would.   It would not be wrong to call 'it' 'baby'; It was the embodiment of my research, sweat and words I slowly wove to life for over a year.