Personal – In My Words

The school run

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 adminLife in South Africa

I did the school run more than four times in the past week. Brave, right? It must be the 5G that made me do it! Yes, I’m finally fully vaxxed and feeling slightly less apprehensive.[…]

Removing the Rhetoric: Women at Work

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 adminPersonal

“Mum, do you know what the division of labour means?” asked my 10 year old son, enthusiastically, at the end of another interesting day at school. Of course, in typical mum fashion, I pretended not[…]

Why love is red…

June 24, 2021 adminPersonal

I cannot donate blood. Because I need blood. Sometimes, desperately. In July last year, my health deteriorated rapidly and I was admitted to hospital. It was not an easy decision for our family doctor to[…]

Books, Bollywood and Blogging – with credits to Chetan Bhagat

January 31, 2021January 31, 2021 adminEntertainment

I love reading books – that’s no secret. I have many cupboards brimming with books. And that’s only because I had to dismantle my bookshelf in our childhood home when my parents moved out. For[…]

Comfort

January 24, 2021January 24, 2021 adminLife in South Africa

A search of the word “comfort” will tell you that it comes from the Latin word comfortare, which means “strengthen greatly.” A dictionary definition will tell you it means to ease the mood of or restore[…]

Steadfast

December 30, 2020January 5, 2021 adminLife in South Africa

I shared this picture on my WhatsApp status recently. It is a depiction of Goddess Durga who is revered in Hinduism for her powers of protection, her strength and her determination to overcome evil. “She[…]

Intuition

September 21, 2020 adminPersonal

Do you believe in intuition? intuition /ɪntjʊˈɪʃ(ə)n/ noun the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning. Sounds very much like a gut feeling, hunch, inner voice or sixth sense, doesn’t it? Or[…]

Pregnancy. No Copy and “Paste”

May 29, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

My biggest fear about being pregnant the second time was that it would not be as easy as the first time. I was correct. Boy oh boy! Perhaps the most apt phrase for a mother[…]

Smelling the coffee…

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

I cannot sleep, even though I need to sleep. And no, it’s not the coffee. I guess now is a good time to confess. I haven’t been able to drink coffee for three weeks now[…]

Starting over…

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 adminPersonal

I strongly believe in creating your own destiny. Everyone is entitled to make choices for their happiness and progress in life. Progress does not equate to financial wealth in my books, though many in today’s[…]