Kwapi Vengesayi's Blog, page 2

No Spoiler Book Review: Born a Crime: A Stories from a South African Childhood

Your support helps keep the lights on. I participate in the Amazon Associate Services LLC Program. This means I earn a small commission when you purchase books through the Amazon links in this review at no extra cost to you. Learn More.

Today’s Review: Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Erma Bombeck said there is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Like Freddy Nock on a tightrope, Trevor Noah walks that lin...

Book Review: Born a Crime: A Stories from a South African Childhood

Your support helps keep the lights on. I participate in the Amazon Associate Services LLC Program. This means I earn a small commission when you purchase books through the Amazon links in this review at no extra cost to you. Learn More.

Todays Review: Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah [image error]

Erma Bombeck said there is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Like Freddy Nock on a tightrope, Trevor Noah walks that line...

My 3 Sentence Book Review: Born a Crime

Your support helps keep the lights on. I participate in the Amazon Associate Services LLC Program. This means I earn a small commission when you purchase books through the Amazon links in this review at no extra cost to you. Learn More.

Todays Review: Born A Crime by Trevor Noah [image error]

My 3 Sentence Review

Erma Bombeck said there is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Like Freddy Nock on a tightrope, Trevor Noah walks that line superbly. This book is...

The Watch List: A Netflix Guide to Hope & Change (Updated Monthly)

We live in a very complex world. It’s as beautiful as it is ugly, as hopeful as it is depressing, and as light as it is dark. We find ourselves trying to make sense of it; and when we do, our next struggled is trying to figure out how we can make a difference and make it better.

In my quest to make sense of the world and see how I can give more to it than I will ever take, I have found that immersing myself in documentaries and based-a-on-true-story films has been enriching. Netflix in pa...

A Netflix Guide to Activism & Change

A Netflix Guide to Activism & Change

We live in a very complex world. Its as beautiful as it is ugly, as hopeful as it is depressing, and as light as it is dark. We find ourselves trying to make sense of it; and when we do, our next struggled is trying to figure out how we can make a difference and make it better.

In my quest to make sense of the world and figure our how I can be someone who contributes to making it better, I try to expose myself to knowledge that expands my mind and how it...

Who Are You Raising Your Children to Be?

My grandmother was 93. Sharp tongued, sharp minded, and stubborn. My grandfather passed away at 96. It puts a lot of things into perspective: life, heritage, and the legacies we inherit or leave behind.

I remember the last conversation I had with my grandfather. As we reminisced about my youth and infantile shenanigans, he brought up his daughter, my mother. She died of cancer at the age of 50, something that pained my grandfather.

He said, A child is supposed to bury their parent, not the...

My Father Warned Me About Candy and Bananas

When I was about fourteen years old, my father once told me a story. We were about twenty minutes from home and had just come from running an errand for my mother. Well, my father had. I was just along for the ride.

Kwapi, imagine I wanted to send you on a long journey. Now imagine this journey was on a train that would take a few days to get to your destination and all I gave you were bananas and candy, what would you eat first?

I was used to my dads random stories. If they were stories from...

My 3 Sentence Book Review: The Hate U Give

Your support helps keep the lights on. I participate in the Amazon Associate Services LLC Program. This means I earn a small commission when you purchase books through the Amazon links in this review at no extra cost to you. Learn More.

Todays Review: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas [image error]

My 3 Sentence Review

Sometimes you get lucky and come across a book that is as good as the hype, and The Hate U Give is definitely one of them (even better than the movie). I recommend this book to...

Your Story Matters: Documenting COVID-19 Project

What is The #DocumentingCOVID19 Project?

The #DocumentingCovid19 Project is an oral histories and document collection project. Our goal is to interview people during the 2020 COVID-19 Outbreak. The long-term hope of this project is to create an archive that future generations can use to understand pandemics and our lived experiences through them.

Who are you looking for?

We are specifically looking for people who are 18 years old and older living in the United States and its territories. We...

This New Dad: Confronting Those First-Time Father Anxieties

The Excitement

When I found out we were pregnant, I was beyond excited. This was something I had dreamed of. Having children is something Ive always wished and hoped for, but I always found myself waiting for the right person and the right time. And when I met my sons mother, now my fiance, the wait was over. And about a year and half into our relationship, we started working towards having a baby, and soon after, we knew the little one was on his way.

The Anxiety

But with every passing month...