Thuita J. Maina's Blog: Reflections of a Christian, page 63
December 5, 2017
An Enlightening Rendezvous
As you might probably know, I used to run a blog I called Polly. A former schoolmate of mine at Starehe Boys' Centre named Josh Komoth, who was a...
December 2, 2017
Learning It The Hard Way
When we as a team qualified for the 2003 secondary schools volleyball national championships after winning a nerve-wracking game against another...
November 20, 2017
How a Friend Helped Me
Peter Kariuki (yes, the young man I have mentioned in the photo above) was a schoolmate of mine at Starehe Boys' Centre but he never got to know...
November 3, 2017
Identifying Our Virtues
When I was applying to Stanford University for the second time ten years ago, the university asked me to list five adjectives that best described...
October 27, 2017
Amazing Grace
As I write this story, I am listening to Amazing Grace hymn which I have played and recorded on my a href="http://amzn.to/2zPDd0R"...
October 18, 2017
The Careers I Will Pursue
Malcolm Gladwell in his enlightening book -
Outliers: The Story of Success
- says that...
October 10, 2017
Bowing Out of Politics
As the 2007 Kenya's General Elections were nearing and getting riveting, I was having a conversation with a friend at JKUAT when I remarked,...
October 8, 2017
Power of Thoughts
I had intended this story to have more words of my own than it already has but somehow, words have failed me. So without further ado, let me share...
September 24, 2017
Lessons From Abe Lincoln
Much has been said about the greatness of Abe Lincoln. Like there was Theodore Roosevelt who wrote to his sons: "It is a great comfort for me to...
September 22, 2017
Re-writing Enlightening Stories
Early in 2015 after I gave up lying, exaggerating and plagiarism, I wrote a number of original stories on topics that interested me....
