Made to Need You
November 9, 2021
in Stories of My Life
I cried when I watched a performance in Night of the Proms. I think it was Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins. The voices of hundreds filled the Royal Albert Hall. A throng, shoulder-to-shoulder in Hyde Park. All voices lifted. Cares set...
Refining in the Fire
February 24, 2021
in Stories of My Life
If you’re anything like me, I love a good “heartstring-tugging” story. It’s a good one if it taps into my emotions and maybe makes me cry a little. Why? Because it’s how life goes. I can relate. I can engage. I...
Diary of a Parent
January 29, 2021
in Stories of My Life
Feeling all the feels this week! Monday Two more sleeps until Older goes to school. Like every parent, I can’t believe that this day is upon us so quickly. I have mixed emotions. For a long time I’ve wanted to be...
School or Home?
August 25, 2020
in Mommyhood
2020 has thrown us all for a loop. Most parents have agonised over what to do with their kids. Some have been at the school gate at the crack of dawn when schools were allowed to open, ready to hand their kids...
Doing Life Together
August 15, 2020
in Stories of My Life
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens” Ecclesiates 3:1 There are few people who can boast a 23 year-old friendship at the tender age of thirty. But I’m one of them. I can’t remember...
An Appeal
July 27, 2020
in Stories of My Life
Dear South African, Some of you take life’s trials in your stride and choose not to be sunk by the wave rather to ride it out. I wish I could pick up my surfboard like you! By contrast, each day when...
Life in Lockdown
June 9, 2020
in Stories of My Life
Have you wondered what will come up when our grandchildren put 2020 into a Google search? I sure have! I’ve gone as far as to think that my mask and my hand sanitiser bottle will be worth hundreds of rands as a...