by Eddy Ashioya | Nov 29, 2025 | ManTalk
I’ve always been a clumsy boy. I have lost two phones within the last four months, one whose gallery contents are the stuff OnlyFans careers are made of. I lost my high school admission letter, and the principal was adamant that I was lying, which I was, and he swore...
by Eddy Ashioya | Apr 9, 2023 | ManTalk
So…my English teacher (teacher of English?) is one of those people who made it a criminal offense to start a sentence, much less a paragraph with ‘so..’. I never understood why. The thing is—from a writer’s point of view—is that you can use that word only once (maybe...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
It is now exactly *checks notes* nine years since I took someone’s daughter for a date at Java. I was fresh off the high school boat, a greenhorn in matters red. I had been saving up for several terms, three to be exact, because Sauti Sol had cooed that taking a girl...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
Back when I was a highly impressionable young man with a sepia tinted view of the world, I always looked at things in twos. I loved dating, I still do, but I used to, too. I consider this our first date, and I know you are a bit nervous but I want you to know this; I...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
How To Advise A Man In Love: Do Not As the old romantic saying almost goes: if you love something, let it go – naturally while retaining a semblance of hope that it will come back. Is there anything left to say about that over-analysed institution, The Couple? What...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
Look, I know what you are thinking. Another writer? Another guy to fill in the shoes in this high revolving door? And, what’s his name again? From where? And you are right. I no more want to bore you with primers than you want to count the stars. I feel like the new...
