The Kenyan hospital system is going through a very trying time if the screaming headlines are any indicator. This is because the board in charge of health insurance, the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), keeps getting fired and hired such that one isn't sure who is in charge of what. The issue at hand is that the insurer had made some dubious payments to health institutions that were either non existent or didn't have the facilitie...

In 1997, Glamour magazine published an article by Pamela Redmond Satran titled “30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She’s 30.” Fifteen years later, it is now being launched as a book with meditations from notable women like Portia de Rossi [Ellen Degeneres’s life partner] amongst others. I found the list online recently and read it, measuring what I knew at 30 to what it says I should have had...

Two men I know well have been left by their wives. These are young couples, married for three and two years respectively and each have two kids. These guys both have great jobs and the women work marginally. One woman is finding her path as an artist and the other is studying psychology. Now my boys aren’t saints, they get mad and say the wrong things, or worse, nothing at all; and one of them drinks too much. But they are generally good...

My girl is heartbroken. Three years with a hot player who was great in bed, emotionally abusive and alarmingly disrespectful. She met him through work and despite telling herself that she shouldn’t date a colleague she was flattered by this man’s determined pursuit of her. Flowers, incessant calling, nice dinners, trips… the stuff romance novels are made of. The first time he said something derogatory about her, she chal...