When COVID-19 hit, I was in my third of year of college at The Technical University of Kenya, located right in the heart of Nairobi city. My younger brother, Dave, was also in his third year of high school, or third form as we call it, and suddenly, normalcy was on pause. Movement was restrictrd, …
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Jan 02 2025
I’ve set myself up for success in 2025 and I want to help you do the same
I want to support you because I’ve been supported. You know, as I sit down to write this on January 2, 2025, my thoughts drift to the years between 2007 and 2012. Back then, initiatives like Kenya’s “Vision 2030” were all the buzz, and the year 2030 felt like a distant dream—a far-off marker of …
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Nov 05 2024
Story Luck Potluck Show
The Story Luck ShowFeb 2ndTheater Witt 1229 W. Belmont Ave6:30pm Potluck7:00pm ShowTickets 20 or free with a shared dish. Come! Your favorite potluck show is always a crowd pleaser. There will be 4 walk-up story tellers and 4 featured story tellers. Walk up tellers get 5 minutes to tell a story from their hearts. It …
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Nov 02 2023
I Want You to Create Art as Quality as Nestor Gomez’s, Your Driver has Arrived.
McKenzie and I don’t see enough shows together. I’m a blue haired storyteller who writes and produces more than he creates and McKenzie is a cute bespectacled director of finance type. She volunteers-to-get-free-tickets because she LOVES theater. So, when our couple’s counselor assured us, “You’ve been together for over a decade. You need to do …
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Dec 20 2021
Story Luck Talks: Your Origin Story. Twitter Spaces Story Hour.
Story Luck loves going to other shows and reaching new audiences. Because then we get to introduce you to new shows! It was an honor to be on @thesocialaudioguy‘s Twitter Spaces Story Hour. Chris’s fans were absolutely generous. He’s created a Twitter Space where everyone lays down their weapons. Where no one’s afraid to embrace …
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Sep 13 2021
Your Reach is Further than You Realize. The Motivated Mindset Dancers Story.
If you’re creating content regularly, people read it.
Brian Otieno Owino found me via a creative writing facebook group. We chatted about story and non fiction writing. Brian is a writer and a voracious reader. A creative through and through he turned to teaching dance as his main outlet.
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Jun 19 2014
21st Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Competition
Like Storyluck.org, the Guild Literary Complex is dedicated to giving diverse, emerging, and often under-served voices opportunities to share their creative work with the Chicago community. Much of this inspiration stems from African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks who spent much of her life writing in the South Side of Chicago and who collaborated with …
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May 16 2014
Chicago Lit Fest Highlights: Rea Frey and Dawn Jackson Blatner
Those looking for the vegetable-based funk should head down and see Rea Frey and Dawn Jackson Blatner are the Chicago Lit Fest. Frey has been spreading the word about the perks of a vegan based lifestyle; she has a blog, a website, and a documentary – “Vegucated” -, and generally promotes a Power Vegan lifestyle. …
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Aug 13 2013
Elevator Thoughts
I have been riding hospital elevators for over 30 years. I didn’t do this for fun or because I possess some type of “vator” fetish. I have worked in hospitals for over 30 years.
I’ve not only ridden internal hospital elevators but also external elevators. In more cases than not these elevators carry people who have parked their automobile, motorcycle, and sometimes bicycle in a large ominous looking structure adjacent to a hospital.. These folks frequently go from one floor to the next with a blank stare trying to find their vehicle. The dysphoria created by the spaciousness and lack of familiarity with the cavernous concrete lots that house the elevators compound the spookiness of the contraptions’ themselves. Now throw in the anxiety that most people have visiting their physician, or loved one who may be infirmed and you have one big “phobia”.
Today I was in one of those lots and found two women wondering around talking to each other pointing as if each auto they were pointing to could be, but wasn’t, their own.
“I think that’s it”
“No it’s a Nissan, but its not the right color”
“How bout that one?”
“Yes…..no that’s not it. It’s a Toyota”
“What floor were we on?”
“I didn’t look when we left the lot and got on the elevator”
“I always do that and then end up feeling so stupid”
After observing this for a moment or two I offered gallant assistance.
“Did you ladies lose your car?”
Blank stares at me and fearful stares at each other.
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