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Halo Life
by Jane Ovbude
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 9th April 2010
ISBN: 978-1-907179-57-0
Price: €15.50
Halo life meaning a glorious life, is a collection of uplifting essays, poetry, romance and thoughts. They concentrate on diversity. Diversity in gender, behaviour, character, nationality and social class. Have nature and time played a part in diversity, how do we accept and apply it to our daily lives?
Hard work time and opportunity work together to make us who we are. Acceptance, good judgement, and family also shape our character. The book also explores writing and creativity and outlines the steps toward the creative writing process.
About the Author
Jane Beatrice Ovbude, who is also known as Ifeanyi Beatrice Ejim, was born in Abia State, Nigeria. Her childhood and early years are as diverse as her adulthood. This may be where she acquired her facility for multi-tasking, and her interest in people of different backgrounds and culture.
She is currently sitting for CIMA exams on a part-time basis. Her spare time finds her working as a volunteer for Tralee Asylum Refugee and Migrant Services (TARMS) as coordinator, and with Tralee Diverse Writers Group.
Just a woman
The world we live in
Unspoken fight and inner struggle
Maybe I am selfish maybe I care
Questions often I ask myself
He calls me a feminist: I say am feminine
He said I hate to be controlled
I say I love not his remote
Take away my femininity
Then there is no humanity
But tell me if I am not a feminist
What should I be?
Maybe a manliest to be accepted
If I hate equality then I am cruel
Do I need to prove this? I just know it
That in the two individuals
Exist their differences
Ridicule I see in me trying to prove my point
To be the woman I am
I just work it out, live it out and enjoy it
I am just glad I am a woman
