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Florence Bett
154 stories written for Craft It.
2023Craft ItCraft ItS is for SpectacularRemember a few weeks ago, when I told you that GB and I are embarking on an eating-better challenge? Remember the ‘Why?’…2023Craft ItCraft ItIt Starts With A Broken ToasterThis all starts in late June 2020, you probably won’t remember what was happening in your life back then unless you look…2023Craft ItCraft ItGive Me A ThreeI want a baby, a third baby. I want the baby to be a girl so I can name her after my…2023Craft ItCraft ItLife LatelyHappy Easter, my dear reader! Send me a smoke signal and tell me where you’re reading this from. I’m always curious to…2023Craft ItCraft ItLetter to my 25-year-old selfDear Bett, I am writing you from the future. You just turned 38 and life looks nothing like what you envision now…2023Craft ItCraft ItA Nasty HangoverI have developed a new habit of switching off my phone before I sleep. It stays off the entire night – sitting…2023Craft ItCraft ItWhat the Dog SawYou know the story. On August 7, 1998, two Al Qaeda suicide bombers detonated a massive truck filled with explosives outside the…
Craft ItBuried or CrematedFriday, late morning, I am at the Hindu Crematorium in Kariokor, right at the fingertips of Gikomba Market. My curiosity has brought…2023Craft ItCraft ItThe Last DanceAs though I haven’t talked about my people enough already, here’s another eye-rolling reminder that I am married to a man whose…2022Craft ItCraft ItThis is homeI bet you have never been to Kaplong. Hell, I bet you have not even heard about it before. I would not…2022Craft ItCraft ItTo ValentineA reader WhatsApp’d me this message: Hello, Bett. I have a question. Apart from consistently writing and reading books, is there a…2022Craft ItCraft ItHis name is ChristopherHow it goes with these things is, sometimes, you are not ready. No one is ever truly ready for anything, I’ll tell…2022Craft ItCraft ItToastmasterI don’t know what you’re doing right now but I want you to head over to YouTube and watch Barack Obama’s old…2022Craft ItCraft ItDial my heartMy word of the year in 2020 and 2021 was ‘start again’. I recall, it was early January 2020 and I was…2022Craft ItCraft ItPainting your home: a beginner’s guideIt was in 2020, the pandemic year, when we had to hunker down indoors and work from home, that GB and I…2022Craft ItCraft ItMake your bed…. On second thought, don’tIf you are one of the three people left in this town who have not mastered the urban metaphor of ‘make your…2022Craft ItCraft ItThe bell has rungSomething beautiful happened after I finished writing my book. Heads up: I am going to talk to you so much about this…2022Craft ItCraft ItLet’s try this againTruth is, I am scared. I am scared shitless. I come on to this site and I am scared about how eerie…
Urban GuideTurn the lights onBY BETT The downside to growing older is that you begin to get stuck in your ways. As though life is some…2021Urban GuideUrban GuideThe Gift and the CurseBY BETT Two things: One: (I need to post this story but I’m truly struggling with the intro. I’ll fill it in…2021Urban GuideUrban GuideMy salonist is killing me!BY BETT The salon where I have my hair braided is your run of the mill kibanda salon. There is no parking…2021Urban GuideUrban GuideDotted linesBY BETT Folk get into romantic relationships not knowing how to read their partners. This wouldn’t be a pain if we all…2021MotherhoodMotherhoodLessons from the pumpBY BETT One of the things they don’t tell you you will be doing a great deal of as a new mum…
MotherhoodEarly days: a DiaryBY BETT Sunday 6 September 2020. 2147hours Muna came to the hospital earlier this afternoon. She came to see me and to…
Craft ItBuried or CrematedFriday, late morning, I am at the Hindu Crematorium in Kariokor, right at the fingertips of Gikomba Market. My curiosity has brought…2023Craft ItCraft ItThe Last DanceAs though I haven’t talked about my people enough already, here’s another eye-rolling reminder that I am married to a man whose…2022Craft ItCraft ItThis is homeI bet you have never been to Kaplong. Hell, I bet you have not even heard about it before. I would not…2022Craft ItCraft ItTo ValentineA reader WhatsApp’d me this message: Hello, Bett. I have a question. Apart from consistently writing and reading books, is there a…2022Craft ItCraft ItHis name is ChristopherHow it goes with these things is, sometimes, you are not ready. No one is ever truly ready for anything, I’ll tell…2022Craft ItCraft ItToastmasterI don’t know what you’re doing right now but I want you to head over to YouTube and watch Barack Obama’s old…2022Craft ItCraft ItDial my heartMy word of the year in 2020 and 2021 was ‘start again’. I recall, it was early January 2020 and I was…2022Craft ItCraft ItPainting your home: a beginner’s guideIt was in 2020, the pandemic year, when we had to hunker down indoors and work from home, that GB and I…2022Craft ItCraft ItMake your bed…. On second thought, don’tIf you are one of the three people left in this town who have not mastered the urban metaphor of ‘make your…2022Craft ItCraft ItThe bell has rungSomething beautiful happened after I finished writing my book. Heads up: I am going to talk to you so much about this…2022Craft ItCraft ItLet’s try this againTruth is, I am scared. I am scared shitless. I come on to this site and I am scared about how eerie…Urban GuideTurn the lights onBY BETT The downside to growing older is that you begin to get stuck in your ways. As though life is some…2021Urban GuideUrban GuideThe Gift and the CurseBY BETT Two things: One: (I need to post this story but I’m truly struggling with the intro. I’ll fill it in…2021Urban GuideUrban GuideMy salonist is killing me!BY BETT The salon where I have my hair braided is your run of the mill kibanda salon. There is no parking…2021Urban GuideUrban GuideDotted linesBY BETT Folk get into romantic relationships not knowing how to read their partners. This wouldn’t be a pain if we all…2021MotherhoodMotherhoodLessons from the pumpBY BETT One of the things they don’t tell you you will be doing a great deal of as a new mum…MotherhoodEarly days: a DiaryBY BETT Sunday 6 September 2020. 2147hours Muna came to the hospital earlier this afternoon. She came to see me and to…