Archive - I made this for you!

The brief but educational time I earned £60,000 to edit a national newspaper

I went from working for myself to suddenly managing 24 people as a department head.

Jun 9 •

February 2025

Why finding love should take a village

Does the search for love have to be an individual pursuit?

Feb 13 •

December 2024

All these little sins

Every single day in 2024, I asked for forgiveness 1,000 times and it has transformed me.

Dec 22, 2024 •

September 2024

Dating is fun, actually?

I've gone on nine first dates this year. You're going to read it coz of the compelling nature of the dating industrial complex.

Sep 19, 2024 •

August 2024

The (s)talking stage: On the dating disadvantage of being an online person

Trigger warning!!!

Aug 15, 2024 •

June 2024

The speech I never made

My sister, my best friend, the soul of my soul, got married and there's so much I didn't get to say.

Jun 6, 2024 •

May 2024

The first trip around the sun

My notes from heartbreak.

May 11, 2024 •

April 2024

The mosques that glued me back together

It was the house of worship that healed me and called me closer to God. If only mosques were more available to Muslim women.

Apr 4, 2024 •

March 2024

Romance as rizq: Not everyone is going to have it

Omar Suleiman's Why Me series on love and marriage has us singletons gagged. Let's talk about it.

Mar 27, 2024 •

February 2024

It should have been Emma in Paris – some frantic thoughts on One Day and dating a white person

I’m guessing you’re here because you’ve seen Netflix’s gut-wrenching retelling of One Day, a novel by David Nicholls previously adapted into a film with…

Feb 22, 2024 •

January 2024

Making £1k in three months - When your career doesn't love you back

Journalism opportunities are fast dwindling. Where to go from here?

Jan 30, 2024 •

December 2023

On the one after the one

Hello heartbreak, my old friend.

Dec 25, 2023 •

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