Jenifer Nim
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I’ve got a head full of stories and a hard drive full of photos; I thought it was time to start putting them somewhere.
I haven’t written anything for many, many years. Please be kind! 🙏
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Never Let The Truth Get In The Way Of A Good Story
Dear Mum, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” You, circa 1999 You shared this motto with me when I was around nine or ten, after I listened to you telling a family friend a story about something I had done, the two of you cackling like hyenas. “That’s not what happened!” I cried, confused about the blatant truth-twisting I was hearing. “Well, close enough,” you responded.
By Jenifer Nim5 years ago in Families
Why I'm Quitting Avocados. First Place in Wave Makers Challenge. Top Story - May 2021.
Millennial woman loves avocados: sounds like a headline from the Onion. But I really, really do love them. I didn’t eat avocados every day, but on the days when I didn’t, they were sitting in my fruit bowl waiting to ripen. Just thinking of them makes my mouth water; the buttery taste, the squishy green flesh, the creamy splendour of the really good ones. And yet, despite what could perhaps be described as an obsession with the little green beauty, last year I concluded that I have to give them up. Yes, with a very heavy heart, I cancelled avocados.
By Jenifer Nim5 years ago in Earth
Mississippi Goddam
“Alabama's gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam” With the blistering, searing anger of this song, Nina Simone left her mainstream-friendly, light-hearted jazz days behind and catapulted herself to the front of the civil rights movement. Nina became a prominent, outspoken figure of the movement, using her musical power and prowess to fight in her own unique way for the rights of African-Americans and to try to effect change in the United States. This dedication to the cause came at great personal cost. Nina would later tell Jet magazine that Mississippi Goddam ruined her career. The song was banned in southern states. Her records were smashed and the pieces sent to her record label. Nina believed she was boycotted by the music industry. She left America in the early 70s, and although she would return for concerts, she never lived there again.
By Jenifer Nim5 years ago in Beat
The Tiny Town With History On Every Corner
Well, here I am. Back in my hometown. I’ve moved away many times. I’ve made a home in several cities around the UK. I’ve lived in a few different countries. I’ve travelled the globe. When coronavirus unleashed itself on an unsuspecting world last March I was in Peru, finally about to fulfil a lifetime’s ambition of climbing up Machu Picchu. I didn’t quite make it. Instead I was locked down in a hotel room in Cusco for three weeks before being repatriated back to the UK on an emergency flight organised by the British government. And now I’m back in my hometown, in my childhood home.
By Jenifer Nim5 years ago in Photography
It's not actually that sunny in Philadelphia. Top Story - February 2021.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Like the name of a wholesome family entertainment show. Perhaps a light-hearted comedy where a group of old friends who own a bar get into a few scrapes but it all turns out all right in the end. Well, the irony begins with the title. It’s Always Sunny is one of the craziest, darkest sitcoms ever to hit our screens.
By Jenifer Nim5 years ago in Geeks
