Category: Life Event
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Why I’m So Happily Looking Forward to Never Retiring
I’m 48 now, so retirement isn’t really on the horizon for me yet, but it also isn’t even vaguely in my plan for my life.
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My Day of Tackling Change With Tomorrow’s Rugby Heroes
We want to drive transformation numbers in our professional teams, yet we are denying the very people we want to take up the sport in order to achieve that goal, the ability to watch said teams on TV?
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Why I’m Saying Goodbye to My Comfort Zone & Hello to Dubai
So, just like that, I’m packing up and moving to Dubai for a dream job. With just days to go before I leave, it feels like this is all far too sudden and a life-changing decision made on a whim.
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Six sure ways to fail as a freelancer
I’ve just begun on this journey and I find myself biting my nails daily, wondering how I’m going to make ends meet. It takes a certain set of skills to really make it work.
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I’m Mumbling My Way Through Married Life, and Loving It
Ask anyone and they’ll tell you how “marriage changes things” and “If I knew what I know now, I don’t think I’d get married again.” I’d like to dissect those statements for a bit, if I may.
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Garth Japhet, Heart and Soul Adventurer, On How Stories Make Us Human
A true South African role-model and activist whose ultimate quest is to get us to share our stories and learn from each other. He sat down with Ruda Landman to share the challenges and triumphs of his remarkable journey.
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My Old Clothes Aren’t Hand-Me-Downs, They’re Lift-Me-Ups
A change in clothing has accompanied every phase of my life, as it has for my children. Nappies were their welcome-pants to life, but are mercifully no more. Now, I take deliveries of clothing from my sister and others, some which we parted from and which have returned.
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The Day a Legendary Kiwi’s Grandson Cut My Hair
“My grandfather was stopped from being an All Black because of apartheid,” is not your usual barbershop banter.
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The Shock of Finding Out That Your Teens Aren’t Quite as Terrible as You Were
‘It’ll happen to you too now,’ my Mom once told me, dandling my firstborn son on her knee and cooing down at him. ‘One day he’s all cute and snuggly and the next minute, you open a cupboard door to hang up some pants and bam… you get hit by a tsunami of badly hidden…
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Talking to Your Kids About the Ultimate Taboo
Children are exposed to death, and need support to understand the sudden absence of a loved one, as does everyone. I have come to see that children are more candid and less guarded than their adults, and that there is much to learn from them.