Category: Making a Home
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How Our Little Blended Family Taught Me to Love Again
Add one child each to the mix and suddenly it is no longer a relationship with just two individuals, but four different people and two units coming together to form one. A blended family.
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The Toughest Thing About Life is Learning to Love Yourself
Apparently significantly more women than men suffer from Adrenal Fatigue. No doubt in part because we are socialised to view self-sacrifice in women as a virtue.
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Why Looking for a Home is Like Going on a Date
For some reason, despite being an available bachelor with an okay job and a good head of hair, the fear of rejection always overwhelms me. Or is it the fear of commitment? Only this journey will tell.
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Richard Mulholland, SA’s radical boardroom rock ‘n roller
“Question Everything,” reads the tattoo on Richard Mulholland’s arm, and that includes the tattoo itself.
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The Agony & Joy of Building a Room of My Own
It all started with a few sketches of her dream studio while looking at the empty yard where she used to play, run around and climb the apricot tree, writes Nobantu Shabangu.
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How to be the Most Super Rugby Fan in Your Family
It’s almost Super Rugby season, so Ben Karpinski explains what you need to know about this year’s tournament.
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My Year on an Island Paradise
As a former Durban girl, who then moved to Cape Town, I appreciated living on a warm coastline of Mauritius again. But being on the island for a year was quite different to staying at a holiday resort.
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How Kass Naidoo hit the glass ceiling of South African cricket for a six
Kass Naidoo was just a teenager when she was walking past the TV set that stopped her in her tracks. The speaker was a cricket commentator from the West Indies, but with one big difference: she was a woman.
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How I’m Going to Save Myself From Myself This Year
Everybody knows that the road to oblivion is paved with well-intended resolutions. And yet, what better time than the start of a year to start all over again? This time, it’s for real. Promise! By Dave Luis
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The Agony of Not Knowing Whether to Stay Or Go
Janine Dunlop writes her husband, B, is on about emigrating again. He likes the idea of it and New Zealand seems like the perfect place to be if you’re the outdoorsy type. Also, it’s not South Africa.