Make Over

Make Over

Make up sure doesn’t do it for you. Do you want to know why? I will tell you, but you must reflect and admit to what is really needed. Make up, apparently, is the feel-good factor. So, if you wake up without make up, then are you not feeling quite the same? But on the...
Perfect Reflection

Perfect Reflection

The mirror is perfect. A reflection of you and that feel-good moment when you pose in front of it as if you are a major celebrity. You are pepped up, smiling at yourself and ready to face the world. You hardly do that if you are staying home and expect nothing and no...
Take the Test

Take the Test

“The more things change the more they stay the same”. This is indeed true when it comes to marriage. The case of male versus female, husband versus wife and the proverbial “men are from Mars, women are from Venus” rings true every time. Still, though, it is important...
Missed New Year’s Resolution

Missed New Year’s Resolution

Struisbaai is a coastal town about 200km outside of Cape Town. That part of the world is quite nice and great for fishing. Ah yes, fishing does take some patience. I mention Struisbaai because, even as South Africans, the pronunciation will differ somewhat. One such...
About your future

About your future

It is but a moment in time. The impatient may struggle in a wee period of upheaval and difficulty. The wise will have prepared for such a time. The contented will be patient and find ways to navigate through this period. More and more people are inclined to a career...
Exquisite

Exquisite

Recipes are about ingredients, method and outcome or product. What do you think is the expected outcome from one who does not fully know what he is doing? In a way, in days gone by, there was generally someone to ask who may then guide you. Today, social media is the...