There’s an old take that implies that if your heart is heavy, you should eat something sweet. I subscribe to the idea, even if I’ve hardly followed it. To be honest, I think some of the moments when I’ve felt…

The fact that the weather has been upside down and undecided whether winter has begun or not has left my system feeling down somehow. I’ve had to bombard myself with anti-cold meds and remedies, with lemon and ginger now a…

There’s talk of a cold front hitting off the coast of South Africa, with chilly winds reaching Namibia from the south-west. Now what I don’t get is, inasmuch as the rainy season, and by extension summer, is bidding us goodbye,…

The last two weeks have been nothing short of a nightmare for my family and I, as we had to say goodbye to a beloved niece and friend who unfortunately lost her battle with colon cancer at the age of…

Read that headline again – I bet you read it wrong. I was reading an article a few days ago by a colleague on the skyrocketing prices of a basic food standard in most Namibian households – beef stew. Beef…

In all honesty, I think I’m getting a little too round for my liking, after abandoning the whole ‘New Year, New Me’ mantra that everyone was on about at the beginning of January. This usually includes running yourself hard until…