From Lanckorona with love
I think of myself as a city girl. Drop me, alone, into Warsawa, San Francisco, Paris and I feel curious, happy and alive. So what was it about Lanckorona, a country hamlet with angels high on a hill near Krakow in Poland, that instantly grabbed me?
Freewheeling in Malawi: a bike, my daughter and me
Bicycles, backpacks, a back-up van and a 14-year-old. What to do when you’re the mom and you’ve never ridden a bicycle except into a bush? You bite the bullet. Knowing that for kids, an adventure in an unfamiliar place is an education. It gives a vision of different traditions, cultures and lifestyle. It also teaches obvious lessons in history and geography. Not to mention resilience. Yours as well and theirs.
Retreating to flavour and mindfulness
The Buddhist Retreat Center a couple of hours by car from Durban in rural South Africa is a haven of tranquility and beauty where mindfulness and kitchen magic connect in a vast, poverty-stricken, harshly beautiful landscape.
Corporate Cutbacks — Victim or Victor?
I became a labor statistic the first time* at lunchtime one muggy Friday, just six weeks after beginning what had been “sold” to me as (drum roll here) “the most stimulating and challenging work opportunity likely to come your way in a decade.”
The miracle of Bonakude: growing food, growing people
When Professor Mvuselelo “Mvu” Ngcoya was growing up in Phatheni, a long-neglected, impoverished rural community not far from the KwaZulu-Natal town of Richmond, there was […]
Love — it don’t come easy
In South African in the early 70s we had women’s lib, people’s lib, gay lib. But few role models to reflect the times. Many of us wed and then we fled. Products of our time?
Intermittent fasting for feasting
Time to take stock. We might think of ‘fasting’ and ‘foodie’ as being at odds. So what’s the connection with fulfillment and love and pleasure? […]
Buddhist Retreat Centre: flavour and mindfulness
Too many chefs. Zen food. Monkey thieves. Ensconced. Sangoma recipes. Kitchen wisdom. Tantric Tarts. A Thriller with Vanilla. Mouth Orgasm scale wisdom. Adam’s sourdough. Only […]
The CBT mouth orgasm scale
Eating mindfully is the key to healthy eating and no-diet weight loss. Zen memoir, Cravings, inspires CBT expert Helen Perry to share her unique and effective ‘conscious eating’ tool: the mouth orgasm scale.
One-night-stands flex memoir muscle
What we are focused on for memoir journaling is the magic of what pops unbidden onto the page. Surprises you.