Tag: Rochelle Barrish
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The gut-punch that sent me reeling off the corporate ladder
After years of a doubly reinforced glass ceiling in our industry, the older ones amongst us had smashed those ceilings and were racing up to Exco level. The band of sisters following them were determined to follow in their footsteps.
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The life-lesson I learned from my dad on the tennis court
NO. This cannot be happening. What is he wearing? Is he joking! How could he come to school. My school. My high school. In those clothes. I wanted that green surface to open up and swallow me with tennis racket and all.
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The 3 parenting life-lessons I learned from my rescue mutt
I was going to be a rock star school governing body (SGB) mom. Ten years in, I know how foolish I was at the start and I’ve learnt some lessons. And some of those lessons came from a rather surprising source.
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The things I learned about love, life, & padkos on Ouma’s family camping trips
To this day, when I see a hard-boiled egg or cheese on cream crackers, I’m taken right back to the times me and my cousins were piled in the back of a station wagon, passing the padkos Tupperware around and bouncing out of our skin in anticipation of our destination.
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Every drought has a silver lining
My Icebergs have been reduced to ice dumps, some of the hibiscus and camellia trees never made it past their toddler years, and the only shrubs and climbers standing in 2018, are the unconventional beauties.
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How my bed became the love of my life
When I was circling the drain a year later and faced with the possibility of never going home to my bed again and having a cold steel hospital bed instead, I learnt that nothing else matters other than my health and the people I love.
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The Great Choose-a-Guardian Braai
My husband and I recently updated our wills. When I say recently, I’m including the six to eight months preceding the actual update, signing and safe storage. This included looking at our original choices of guardians and surreptitiously vetting them again.
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An easy peasy guide to beating the back-to-school blues
I remember having a we’re-free-of-nappies party when the kid was potty-trained. How delusional we were, thinking that no longer having to fork out thousands on nappies would mean we could travel the world!
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How a Great, Big Curveball of Change Put Our Wedding Vows to the test
When Elton explained this to our son, who was 4 at the time, he listened and summarised it as “so Daddy, your lungs don’t feel like being lungs anymore?” It was so on point, my husband uses it as his standard intro when people ask him about his condition.