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150,000 hits: Thank you wonderful readers of this blog

It is with the greatest humility that I shout about the fact you, my dear readers of this blog, have taken me to the dizzy heights of 150,000 hits, meaning that the stories have been read 150,000, by new and old and faithful readers alike.  My readers come from the United States, Russia, Australia, Canada, UK, India, Ireland, Kenya, Peru, Germany and lots of other places. When I first launched the blog, I never had the slightest inkling that it would reach such dizzy heights. The blog was my own safe place, a refuge to escape to when my heart was breaking, the sobs were turning into floods of tears, or when I was hurtling into or burning up with severe pain following the loss of my late wife  Rufina .  Writing was a way of exercising my mind, reliving those wonderful memories of Kenya, its people, its places, events and, most importantly, all my friends and acquaintances. It also provided me the freedom to follow my own journalistic instincts and investigate...