My Gran, our Toet, would have been 88 years old today. It feels like yesterday that we sat on her couch on June afternoons, drinking Milo and watching Wimbledon, when we’d find her sitting on a deck chair outside her back door reading a book...
At the end of a very long, emotionally draining day, I find myself thinking about a picture I saw on Facebook about two years ago which said ‘what if you woke up tomorrow with only the things you thanked God for today?’. On days like today,...
How many people do you walk past in a day? For me, it can be more than 50 sometimes. How many of them do you greet, or even acknowledge? I could probably count them on my ten fingers. Until recently, when I was going for...
Patience is not something that comes easily for me. I like to get things done - decide, organise, do. No fussing around. I often get frustrated when plans get delayed or changed. My wonderful husband is quite different. He is comfortable to wait on decisions...
I’m a morning person. I love being up when there is a slight chill in the air before the sun rises fully and the sound of the birds waking up is the only sound I hear. It is at this time that I get my...
As a thirty something mom of a just-turned-two year old and a three month old, a wife, a friend, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a career woman with a senior position in Corporate Finance and an entrepreneur I frequently find myself wondering ‘How am...