Monique's Musings

January 29, 2020

Being Intentional in the Journey

Happy New Year folks! Towards the end of the year, I attended a vision board workshop at church with a good friend and Christian sister called […]

October 21, 2019

Making a ‘To-Undo List’ for the #ThrivingThirties

On the 11th of this month, I excitedly entered my third decade of life sharing loads of photos taken by a dear friend Melissa Lucas with […]

May 29, 2019

Look Back A Little More

Motivational messages often say we shouldn’t look back on the journey. That we should forget the past and look forward in hope. They generally assume that […]

April 26, 2019

What Lesson Are You Learning Now?

Dear Christian Bro/Sis, Consider this: the Christian’s life is part prep school, part boot camp. We’re being groomed, pruned, molded and made ready for life in God’s […]

February 14, 2019

5 Love Poems From Me to You

As the people all over the world muse on love (genuine of commercialized fluff) on this Valentine’s Day, permit me share with you some of my […]

October 11, 2018

…And that is the story of how I became a Christian.

Hello, I’m Monique and today, 11th October 2018, makes me twenty-nine years old. I added an About My Faith page to this blog at the start […]

August 9, 2018

Undoing a Culture of Shaming

How do you write about being ashamed of what you are to be proud of? I will try. *** A few weeks ago, a friend and […]

July 22, 2018

How a Reading Challenge Led to a Lifestyle Change…

Somethings we know, but don’t know. You know? Like we all know we could do more if we spend the first hour of our day effectively. […]

August 25, 2017

Happy Birthday Musings!

On this very date, in the year 2012, Monique’s Musings was conceived in a hotel room in Nigeria. I was returning home via Calabar from the […]

August 25, 2016

My ‘Returnee Anniversary’: 15 Reasons I Love My Country

The day was 25thAugust 2001. I was less than three months shy of 12 years old, or as I often reminded people- I was a pre-teen. […]

June 27, 2016

MTN Nights: A Love Story

It all began with an MTN Cameroon deal, Free SMS Nights, which enticed customers to give up their sleep for seven hours of toll free messages. […]

April 22, 2015

Rough-drafts: from reading to writing

It was in July of 2003 that I fell in love with novels. Contrary to my mother’s present-day boasts, I was not always the happy member […]