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.
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.”
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?
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.
SAfm Otherwise: Shado Twala speaks to Wanda Hennig about Cravings (Podcast)
Shado’s interviews are more of a conversation than a straight Q&A. How ‘Cravings…’ came about and what it deals with. Depression, social phobia, meditation, celibacy… I was blown away that ‘Otherwise’ host Shado Twala had read my book, liked it — and ”got it”— knowing it will speak to some people, not to others. Hopfully to “the right people” in an affirming, empowering way…
Cravings: A Zen-inspired memoir…
In this insightful gem, journalist and life coach Wanda Hennig writes wisely, hilariously and sometimes poignantly about sex and food; living for three-and-a-half years at the San Francisco Zen Center; moving solo from one continent to another; meditation; creative mindfulness strategies and more. Cravings: A Zen-inspired memoir about sensual pleasures, freedom from dark places, and living and eating with abandon (Say Yes Press). Edition Two (Mouth Orgasm edition) published August 2017 (ISBN 9780996820523 paperback; ISBN 9780996820523 eBook).
My backpack, my daughter and me: Part 1
We set off on our European summer backpacking vacation one warm and sunny winter afternoon late in May. My daughter was 13. I was 30-something. We flew from Durban to London via Nairobi and found from the very beginning that learning while on the move is easier than ABC. Things are there all the time, waiting to be noticed, grasped and stored away in the memory with minimum effort.