Category: Life

  • The Oldest New Comedian in South Africa

    19 June 2024
    This is a Guest entry by Chantal Harris I find myself looking 60 squarely in the face and wondering how…
  • Love Let Me Not Hunger

    13 June 2024
    "So many suffer so much while so few sacrifice so little."-Robert Pierce, Founder and President 1950-1967, World Vision International Good…
  • Harder Times Require Furious Dancing

    5 June 2024
    Grand MothersWe have to live differentlyOr we will dieIn the same old waysThereforeI call on all the Grand MothersEverywhere on…
  • Sadness is On Me

    22 May 2024
    In Irish when you talk about emotion, you don’t say, “I am sad.” You’d say, “Sadness is on me –…
  • Motorhome Trip to Morocco

    15 May 2024
    This is a guest post by Alison Majuqwana This winter in the UK my partner, Brian, and I decided that…
  • Wanting to be like Florence

    8 May 2024
    “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.  Each of us has…
  • On Becoming a Yoga Teacher

    2 May 2024
    This is a guest post by Gita Loosz As a young girl, I literally avoided all forms of exercise.  Don’t…
  • Song of the Open Road

    24 April 2024
    (with apologies to Walt Whitman) In our family Sunday afternoon drives were always a treat..  After lunch we would pile into…
  • Learning to Swim

    17 April 2024
    Many years ago, I decided that I had to give up that smelly, dirty habit called smoking cigarettes. Instinctively, I…
  • Die Tronk

    10 April 2024
    In a joint collaboration between the Department of Correctional Services and the Department of Labour, various skills training programmes were…