Topic: Nostalgia
Before the Screens: When Connection Lived in Everyday Moments
06 Nov, 2025 03:05 PM
LOUD WORLD, LONELY HEARTS
Life has become efficient, but in that efficiency, the texture of human contact has thinned. We trade convenience for closeness. We gain speed but lose the warmth that came from un...
Life has become efficient, but in that efficiency, the texture of human contact has thinned. We trade convenience for closeness. We gain speed but lose the warmth that came from un...
Back to School: The Iconic Moments Every Kenyan Student Remembers
30 Oct, 2025 02:37 PM
TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
Looking back now, those moments were more than just the start of another school term. They were a shared experience that defined an entire generation
Looking back now, those moments were more than just the start of another school term. They were a shared experience that defined an entire generation
TBT: World Post Day Reminds Us Why Letters Still Matter
09 Oct, 2025 01:00 PM
PAPER HEARTS
High school letters remind us that communication was not always instant, but it was deeply human. They were the heartbeat of interschool crushes and even secret relationships, pass...
High school letters remind us that communication was not always instant, but it was deeply human. They were the heartbeat of interschool crushes and even secret relationships, pass...
Why Siblings Are Our First Rivals and Lifelong Allies
02 Oct, 2025 04:00 PM
LOYALTY IN RIVALRY
Thinking about sibling rivalries reminds us of what truly lasts. The teasing, the fights, the competitions all softened with time, but the love only grew stronger. In the end, the...
Thinking about sibling rivalries reminds us of what truly lasts. The teasing, the fights, the competitions all softened with time, but the love only grew stronger. In the end, the...
The Truth About Growing Up Kenyan: Hustle and Hard Lessons
02 Oct, 2025 01:00 PM
TOUGH LOVE
Looking back now, it is clear that these contradictions were never meant to confuse us, but to shape us. The sarcasm sharpened our quick wit. The discipline taught us respect and r...
Looking back now, it is clear that these contradictions were never meant to confuse us, but to shape us. The sarcasm sharpened our quick wit. The discipline taught us respect and r...
A Flip Back When Play Lived Outside, Not Behind a Screen
24 Jul, 2025 12:00 PM
PAUSE AND REWIND
This Throwback Thursday, I miss the raw, imaginative joy of growing up before everything became digital. Before “indoors” became a lifestyle and “content” replaced curiosity. We ma...
This Throwback Thursday, I miss the raw, imaginative joy of growing up before everything became digital. Before “indoors” became a lifestyle and “content” replaced curiosity. We ma...
Petrichor, A Distant Joyful Feeling Long Forgotten
19 Jul, 2025 10:00 AM
SENTIMENTAL RAINDROPS
Rain meant rest. It meant storytelling around a dim lantern. It meant that the world would slow down, if only for a while. The roof would sing its metallic rhythm, frogs would call...
Rain meant rest. It meant storytelling around a dim lantern. It meant that the world would slow down, if only for a while. The roof would sing its metallic rhythm, frogs would call...
Old Photography: Memories Captured in Treasured Burnt Photos
17 Jul, 2025 05:37 PM
BEFORE SELFIES
Photos were treasures. They’d be kept in albums, stuck on the wall next to the president’s portrait, or hidden inside Bibles for safekeeping. They weren’t just pictures they were...
Photos were treasures. They’d be kept in albums, stuck on the wall next to the president’s portrait, or hidden inside Bibles for safekeeping. They weren’t just pictures they were...
Reminiscing: Love, Lies, And The Legendary Buttoned Phone
17 Jul, 2025 11:45 AM
GOOD OLD DAYS
Before smartphones, before disappearing messages and FaceTime calls, there was the golden era of buttoned phones—where love lived in 160-character texts, delivered on a glowing gre...
Before smartphones, before disappearing messages and FaceTime calls, there was the golden era of buttoned phones—where love lived in 160-character texts, delivered on a glowing gre...
Gen Z Embrace Nostalgia for Stability in Uncertain Times
26 Mar, 2025 04:27 PM
NOSTALGIC COMFORT
One of the reasons behind Gen Z’s love for nostalgia is the uncertainty of the prevailing. Growing up in technology of economic instability, social unrest, and the speedy upward pu...
One of the reasons behind Gen Z’s love for nostalgia is the uncertainty of the prevailing. Growing up in technology of economic instability, social unrest, and the speedy upward pu...
How Scents Evoke Nostalgia and Emotion
19 Mar, 2025 07:00 PM
MEMORY TRIGGERS
Unlike sight, sound, or touch, which are processed in different parts of the brain, smell takes a direct route to the limbic system. The amygdala and hippocampus area is in charge...
Unlike sight, sound, or touch, which are processed in different parts of the brain, smell takes a direct route to the limbic system. The amygdala and hippocampus area is in charge...
High School Closed Its Doors, What Remains of Its Echo?
27 Feb, 2025 04:00 PM
TIMELESS INFLUENCE
We should not forget that other students in the upper levels used to tease us about how Chemistry was a hard subject, and we grew the worst mentality ever. Teachers used their uniq...
We should not forget that other students in the upper levels used to tease us about how Chemistry was a hard subject, and we grew the worst mentality ever. Teachers used their uniq...
