There’s absolutely nothing I like about winter. Dark, grey skies, chapped lips, the bone chilling cold, the various stages of rain, winds, hail and lately snowy conditions are simply too bleak. My body is not responding well to it at all. Added to that is getting sick with a cold, my kids getting sick, work… Read More Cold Snap Zara Sales
The popularity of cooking shows, the emergence of “master” chefs, celebrity chefs, wanna be chefs has become the norm in our popular culture, and I get it, I totally get it, food is delicious, what’s not to like. But, where are the shows about people who hate cooking? As I sit here it’s lunchtime and… Read More A Mystery Ingredient?
Everyone likes a “rags to riches”, “success against all odds”, “swept off her feet by a prince” story. Most people want to be associated with that. Most would feel proud to know such a person and be sure to name drop whenever they can. And for those who don’t know them, but meet them, a… Read More Walk With Me
On January 26 Australians awaken to exclamations of happiness and expectations for happiness. This is soon followed by remembrance of the effect of this devastating historical date on the indigenous peoples of this land prior to British settlement. Whilst in some sectors that feeling will linger, in others it will be washed aside with a… Read More Defining Happiness on Australia Day
Have you ever had one of those weeks when life becomes not so much about how you deal with stress triggers, as much as that the bastard triggers seem to be doing 3000 rounds per minute, M134 Gatling gun style? In such cases it’s normal to exhaust the usual coping mechanisms before the body decides… Read More Transcendence at Gym? No Sweat
A fairly reserved teenager, i pretty much didn’t date through most of highschool, until my last year, when a boy i liked told me my lips were “too fat”, and it was said not at all in a complimentary way. 2 little words uttered by thin anglo celtic ones which stayed with me for a… Read More Fatal Red
So I’m at the supermarket with 2 of my kids and this woman in her late 70s bumps into me, we apologise to each other for it and she starts talking about how she’s shrinking to the kids and how unfair it is to get older. They giggle. We carry on. aisle 4: … Read More Price Check on Wisdom
Few worlds are more escapist than film or fashion. Time and even logic are sometimes suspended all for the creation of an alternate reality that is easily accepting of excesses of the imagination. Through these dreamscapes everything is possible so long as it accentuates a desired aesthetic effect or moves the story into new directions.… Read More Winter 2013 a la Bonnie and Clyde
As the life of the greatest man of our generation, is precariously on the line, I recall the incredible day when I shook his hand. That same hand which he would hold up, fist clenched and raised and you could hear Mayibuye i Africa! coming from his eyes almost with a faint echo of the joyous… Read More Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 46664
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