Do you have any regrets? I mean do you sometimes look back at what you wrote years ago and go, "What the hell was I thinking?"

No. No regrets. Sometimes, I am embarrassed by things I have written, but I am yet to write something I have regretted. I see the different phases of my growth in my works and I learn.

Right. Chika, it has been a little over two weeks since I fired the first question. The coffee will taste different today. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation. I look forward to talking to you again in the future, but next time, I will not ask you anything about being a woman writer, a wife or a mother. I should think I now know exactly where you stand with those. I must say that your e-mail signature "Egbe Belu, Ugo Belu" – advocating equal rights for the eagle to perch where the kite perches, very much sums up your philosophy in life. Thank you very much for talking to me, but just before I go, I'd like to know from what well you draw so much positivity in such a fundamentally negative world perfumed with a mixture of the scents of racial and religious intolerance, violence, child abuse, murder and war. 

I have also thoroughly enjoyed doing this.

I draw my positivism from God and my children. It is great to know that there is a God at whose feet I can drop all my problems. And children tend to bring out the best in people. When I take my baby for a walk, I get more smiles from people, people offer to help me, it is amazing. How can I help but be positive at times like those? " Egbe belu, ugo belu…"