Marriage is great when the husband is not home

Although married people now stay together, they hardly see each other. [Courtesy]

Like most Kenyans of my generation, my parents stayed apart for a considerable period of their lives. We grew up in the village with mama, while the old man, a policeman, fought to avoid getting shot by bandits.

Eventually, he retired and returned home only to learn that, like Raphael Tuju – a Cabinet secretary without portfolio, his wife, my mother, was the officer commanding station.