is served in service and trust. In the idea of presence in the moment and grace in the outcome.
Read my Response to the Huffington Post article – “The Thing All Women Do That You Don’t Know About”. Way to grab attention with a headline! It’s a good one and I click, wondering: what do I, and all women...
A look at life in post-Apartheid South Africa – The kids in the townships of South Africa run unsupervised in gangs, and when I say gangs, I mostly mean harmless gangs of naughty friends, bored, looking for something to do....
Second Hand Lions You really can’t go wrong with a movie starring Robert Duvall, Michael Kane and Haley Joel Osment ! This is a funny, feel good movie with a message about being true to yourself and living life...
I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats. Eckhart Tolle
Percy Jackson and the Olympians : The Sea of Monsters Percy Jackson fans (largely a tween audience I imagine) will love this movie. It is exciting, flows well and is full of action as the friends embark on a...
To live in the moment with the faith and patience of a cat waiting on the morning sun.
What shall I buy for Christmas ? What I remember of Christmas mornings as a child is the tree, or more to the point, all the presents under the tree. My family was not wealthy, but we had enough, and...
Africa does not exist anywhere else. You can look at pictures and hear stories but it’s not there. It’s not in the smell of rain on your dusty foothills, though that smell is as synonymous with Africa as any. It’s...
The world’s stage beckons. Sometimes the odds are stacked in our favor, a glittering temple of ambition achieved, enemies vanquished and life preserved. Sometimes – stage right – sirens blare and neon warnings blink and airplanes hover, bomb, hurtle to...
Many, many years ago I attended a work function one winter evening at a destination I can’t remember in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. We walked into this large, open room. It was sparsely decorated, cold high ceilings...
I’m not a “foodie”. I don’t spend hours slaving over a hot stove. I don’t spend whole weekends compiling a month of different crock-pot meals in freezer bags, although I think it a wonderful idea and efficiency at its finest....
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Stuff. What is it about stuff? When we lose someone we love, we have to do something with their stuff. What if the stuff doesn’t have any monetary value? What if it just has meaning, a memory? How much of...
