Amid the humdrum of life, there are moments that jolt you. One such moment sprang up on me a few weeks ago and I have been walking with the gravity of it since. I think[…]
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Category: Personal
When you love what you do…
Someone recently asked me what my career highlight is. I responded, “Every day, every show is a highlight.” Until that moment, I had not thought about my career in that way. Now, in retrospect, I’m[…]
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A pen(ny) for your thoughts
I was once ridiculed for writing notes using pen and paper. I kid you not! I was covering a major national news event with fellow journalists a few years ago and I was captured in[…]
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Birthday boost
On my birthday this Monday, I was so grateful to get the only gift I wanted. I received the COVID-19 booster vaccine for immuno-compromised individuals. I don’t share a lot about my auto immune condition and[…]
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Now!
It’s month-end Sunday. It means we survived the tumultuous month that was; and almost a week of stage 4 loadshedding that wreaked havoc on our personal and professional lives. The matric class of 2021 is[…]
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The school run
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.[…]
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Removing the Rhetoric: Women at Work
“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[…]
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Why love is red…
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[…]
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Books, Bollywood and Blogging – with credits to Chetan Bhagat
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[…]
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Comfort
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[…]
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