Archive | Brainwave Musings

Bugs

This has more to do with fomo than bugs.

Juma Reagan

First-Person

Aug 5, 2026

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3 min read

Something’s Coming

Something so bad it has brought universes together, and people are getting serious about their lives.

Juma Reagan

First-Person

Aug 2, 2026

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3 min read

Story For Another Day

Was he showing me his battle scars? Greeting me after days away? Or was he simply exhausted from whatever it takes to survive as a stray who has one foot on the street and another in a place he now calls home?

Juma Reagan

First-Person

Jul 26, 2026

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4 min read

35 Days

Audacity can be an irritating trait when used badly. Used well, it is like a counter-attacking football team: when it works it is unstoppable. After all, the wahenga have been asking the same question for generations: nani atanichapa?

Juma Reagan

First-Person

Jun 21, 2026

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2 min read

Boxers

I'm writing this from Siaya on my phone. It's tough to write on a phone, tougher in boxers, and tougher still on a hot night.

Juma Reagan

First-Person

Jun 14, 2026

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5 min read

What Was He Like.. Before Corona?

He laughed, a lot. He wanted to work with racehorses. He loved. Aaah, but not a single man came back the same. Some never returned at all.

Juma Reagan

Letters & Lovers

Jun 7, 2026

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4 min read

Who’s Jules?

You know what they say: if a man is going to be rejected, he might as well be rejected by a pretty woman. At least then he has a good story to keep telling himself.

Juma Reagan

The Beautiful Game

May 31, 2026

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5 min read

I Want To Harm Myself

His interviews, his thought process, his dressing. How human he makes football be. I've liked him since. He is one of the main reasons I want to go bald. He is easily my favorite manager of all time, followed by Zidane and Luis Enrique, in that order.

Juma Reagan

May 24, 2026

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3 min read

A Bother & A Bore

A low humming beat plays from the home speakers near him. Lionel Richie’s Easy Like Sunday Morning. A good rule of thumb is to only speak to him when spoken to. He’s in good company, he says. There, on his own, in bed at one in the afternoon.

Juma Reagan

First-Person

May 17, 2026

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5 min read

Bounce

The drinking wasn't the worst part. It was the thinking I was such hot stuff. It's like how everybody thinks that they have a good sense of humor, or they're a good driver.

Juma Reagan

The Beautiful Game

The League Is Not Won At The Bernabéu Or Camp Nou

May 13, 2026

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5 min read

The League Is Not Won At The Bernabéu Or Camp Nou

My club is in shambles!

Juma Reagan

Vignettes

May 10, 2026

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4 min read

The Unmothered

You can assume correctly that birthdays were never a thing for her. No candles. No small rituals to make her feel cherished. Worse of all, no cake. Instead each year seemed to arrive with the same reminder hanging in the air: that her birth was tied to the worst thing that had ever happened to her mother.

Juma Reagan

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