Category: Making a Home
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The secret of life is learning to find the rhythm in the routine
I’d hit my rhythm. Quality time. Morning walks are an essential part of this. They don’t always happen or even happen at the same time, but they do always produce a beating heart that seems more tuned into the life I want to live.
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How my kitchen became my heartland of sanctuary & ritual
I cook and eat seasonally, but I also respond to the month, the ambient temperature, the yearly occasions that demand (in my book, anyway) very particular foods.
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A journal of my ever-changing life, from sweet 16 to now
Looking back on my quest for independence, I realise it’s not quite the straight path I envisioned. If the ultimate goal is total independence, I’m not doing terribly well. It’s not as simple as all that, though.
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Oh, grow up! Sam Beckbessinger’s adults-only guide to managing your money
Who exactly is Sam, and how did she learn the secrets of staying solvent, and maybe even building some wealth, merely by acting your age?
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The high cost of living rent-free at home
Moving back home was great. I still had my space, but most of all, I did not have to worry about paying rent. Things changed though when my nephew came to join me in 2017, while pursuing his university studies. Just like that, my independence was gone.
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The year away from home that changed my life & changed my game
In the quest for independence, is it not amazing how we all wish our lives away? Oh so eager to leave home, so we can make decisions sans parental “Interference”. Yet hindsight tells us how good those carefree, decision-free times actually were.
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The lesson I learned from Yaya, the painter who never came back
After once hearing it said that your quality of life can be measured by the communities you belong in, I have realised that I am very well, even wealthy, in the glow of my neighbourhood. We know each other.
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How “Serial Failure” Nic Harry finally found a way to pull up his socks
Failing in business, over and over again, has taught Nic Haralambous the hard lessons that have helped him, finally, to pull up his socks and make it big.
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An independent adult’s guide to getting hopelessly lost in the desert
There’s a ghost town at Sharjah just outside Dubai, at a place on the map where a whole lot of nothing fills the view forever. The tiny outpost has drowned in the dusky red dunes over the years, abandoned now so that only the odd building rises half-heartedly through the sand.
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Smart mover Danny K’s secrets for staying alive in the tough business of pop
Having just turned 40, Danny reflects on the long road he has travelled, as he reveals what it takes to keep staying alive in the tough business of show.