The Baviaanskloof is a portal
Pete and I have just returned home after a last-minute plan to get far from the madding crowds by escaping into the...
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Know your worth, then add tax.
A few weeks ago, I posed the below statement/question on various social media platforms and was stunned by the...
Boardroom Dancing
Books and stories teach us to perspective-take. I have read studies suggesting that because Gen X (me) and Boomers...
A kind of sermon, but a violent one
I have read about two concepts, (astonishingly, both in the memoirs/novels of Elizabeth Gilbert), which (together...
The opposite of Faith is not doubt, its certainty
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind, at the same time, and...
Every day is Africa Day for me.
My ancestors were a rather motley crew of German peasants, French Huguenots, some rather odd British folk and who...
Love takes many unorthodox forms
My mother will be 87 in just over a week. She is old and frail and dangerously unsteady on her pins. She is...
Barefoot along the footpaths of my childhood.
One shouldn’t wait until one’s friends are dead to document admiration for them. With this in mind I thought I...
The Karen Book of Rules – Karin Schimke and Karen Jeynes (Published by Tafelberg)
Ok so at first glance I thought this book would be entirely frivolous and at best would make an hilarious gift for...