Category: Life

  • 5 June 2026
    Dearest friends,  Hello! I am back.  After a wee break, I am ready to start blogging again. Sometimes we need to…
  • 13 March 2026
    A sometimes foolish woman and her lovely husband are embarking on a ten day road trip – we will be…
  • 6 March 2026
    We all have songs or a piece of music, that is special to us, and sometimes they don’t even match…
  • 27 February 2026
    For a long time, I thought changing your life had to be dramatic. I believed transformation required some big, cinematic…
  • 30 January 2026
    I wrote the below-mentioned article published in the Herald on Monday 22 December 2025. It is January 2026 - another…
  • 22 January 2026
    “In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.  With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it…
  • 16 December 2025
    December holidays in a Karoo dorp can be very boring, especially one that serves a large farming community.  Some children…
  • 11 December 2025
    ...on a crazy, difficult, interesting, sometimes scary 2025, the year we turned 70. We were born in 1955 a pivotal…
  • 5 December 2025
    As the year winds down, many of us start feeling that familiar end-of-year tiredness. Not the dramatic kind. Just the…
  • 28 November 2025
    A few weeks ago I was in the shower, whilst soaping my right arm I noticed that a freckle had…