10 years. It’s now 10 years since we lost Julie Muffin. The hearty laughs. The bubbly energy. Community organizer.
We lost a good one.
May her memory keep a blessing to all who knew her.
I'm at a point in my life where I pray to keep meeting the right people. People who genuinely want the best for me, hold me in high regard and add peace to my life.
The African continent doesn’t need more entrepreneurs. It’s full of them.
What it needs is a specific class of entrepreneurs called industrialists: business people who build value-adding firms in export-oriented job creating sectors, not rent capture.
Major cheat code in life: Master the graceful exit. From conversations. From parties. From opportunities. "This has been wonderful, but I need to go." No elaborate excuses. No fake emergencies. Just clear, kind departure. Most people don't know how to leave. They stay too long or leave badly. Master the exit.
Kabaka Mulondo indeed fell in love or slept with his mother in law (he didn’t know though) and when he was informed, he realized the mistake he had made. And created this practice that stands up today. Mulondo’s foresight in addition to Baganda not sleeping with people of the same clan has preserved the Baganda up today. When relatives sleep with each other, there is a likely chance that they will pass on hereditary diseases to each other. That is how the Bachwezi disappeared….
Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome honestly makes way more sense than Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
Because this condition was never just about “ovarian cysts” or fertility.
Women with PCOS are at higher risk for:
-type 2 diabetes
-heart disease
-fatty liver disease
-sleep apnea
-high blood pressure
Yet so many women are never properly counseled about these risks or referred for appropriate care early enough. As a cardiometabolic physician, I meet women in their 50s and 60s dealing with advanced disease who tell me:
“I wish someone had warned me earlier.”
We minimized PCOS by treating it like a niche reproductive issue instead of the systemic metabolic condition it often is.
We have spent years being told it is “just a period problem” while our skin, our weight, our mood, and our energy were all falling apart. Today, the medical world finally admitted you were right.
PCOS is now PMOS.
My newest prayer is simple: “Lord, settle it.” Settle my mind. Settle my heart. Settle my spirit. Teach me to walk in peace instead of anxiety, and faith instead of fear. 🤍
Not to sound delusional, but please pray for grace. Life isn't really about hard work. It's more about meeting the right people, grace, mercy, and favour.
Millennials watched everything collapse in 2008, then got handed student debt, got called entitled for wanting a living wage, survived a pandemic in our prime years, and got priced out of life. And y’all wonder why we’re not okay? We’ve been in survival mode for 20 years.