Category: Life Event
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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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Why I’m Not Sending My Smelly Son to Boarding School
When my 11-year-old son announced that he wanted to go to boarding school, my friends were aghast. I suspect images of the Spud movies were racing through their minds.
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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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How Rugby is Tackling Change and Changing Tackles
There is a big difference between adapting and tinkering, with the latter often about treating the symptoms rather than the actual issue at hand.
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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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Will the Generations Ever Understand Each Other?
We invited two experts in across-the-gap thinking, Estée Roodt, an industrial psychologist, and Stuart Stobbs, advertising agency owner, to share their thoughts on generation gaps at the workplace.
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The Three Big Lessons I’ve Learned About Love, Life, & growing Older
My late sister and I used to scoff at older people. Now that she’s gone, I find myself delighting in getting older.
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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.