Monday Musings 18 September: Be your own wrecking ball. It’s good for business!
Travel. A realm where the unexpected is the norm, and where “business as usual” is as mythical as a week without load shedding. We’re no strangers to chaos, are we? Ash clouds, political unrest, the occasional misplaced luggage. Yet today, I choose to talk about disruption. Not the sort that involves a stag-do commandeering the […]
Monday Musings 11 September: When the bokke made dictionary history
We know all about the highs and lows of social media. It’s crept into every corner of our lives to the point that it’s become a case of “can’t live with it, can’t live without it”. If you think I’m overstating, consider the fact that it has even consumed the attention of one of the […]
Monday Musings 4 September: What Learning a New Skill Can Teach You About Life
Two years ago, I bought myself a guitar. I’d chewed over the idea of learning to play for a couple of months and finally decided it would be a good hobby to pick up (as if hiking, target shooting, gardening, and painting weren’t enough). You must understand that my parents encouraged us to get into […]
Monday Musings 28 August: Are you a hopeless mess? Or brilliantly creative?
I wouldn’t immediately describe myself as a ‘hopeless mess’, but those who know me would say I can be a little ‘disorganised’ and ‘scatterbrained’. My desk is flooded with scraps of papers. At any given time, I have a thousand tabs open on my computer. And let’s not even start discussing the state of my […]
Monday Musings 21 August: Aliens on earth and humans in space
Recently I got schooled by my eight-year-old nephew on the subject of – aliens. He gave me a comprehensive lesson on the types of aliens, their motives, their spacecrafts, the aggressive kind of aliens (apparently found in Mexico and the USA), and the friendly kind. “Do you know where you can find the Friendly Aliens?” […]
Monday Musings 14 August: People make the place
As the Good Things Guy keeps reminding us, South Africa is a very special place. Reading Brent’s post this week about how his website started, got me thinking about our one-of-a-kind people, including my precious group of “forever friends”, all born and raised here. These are friendships forged “a hundred years ago” – in primary […]
Monday Musings 7 August: It’s a Foolish Dog…
Every morning I take my dogs for a walk and along the way I often find myself advising them on their behaviour. I tend to find little messages in nature, like the time I told a bee “Don’t get angry, it will kill you.” Yes, well! I am never quite sure if the message is […]
Monday Musings 31 July: Barbie or Ken – are you your everything?
If you go down to the movies today, no doubt you’ll see one of two flicks: Barbie or Oppenheimer. The simultaneous release of these two highly anticipated blockbuster films sparked the Barbenheimer phenomenon sweeping the world wide web and social media. (Fun fact: did you know that the word Barbenheimer – a combination of the two […]
Monday Musings 24 July: Out of the Office, Into the World
According to Deloitte, as of 2023, 80% of organisations globally allow some level of remote work. Of this percentage, 27% allow for fully remote work, and 53% follow a hybrid model. That means two out of every 10 businesses still insist on full days spent in the confines of the office. The marketing agency at […]
Monday Musings 17 July: Let it snow – bad weather delivers good lessons
As eight of South Africa’s nine provinces found themselves blanketed in snow last week – SA felt all the feelings. Disbelief (it’s sleet, not snow! Wait, it is snow). Anger (musician Shimza faced the Twitterati’s wrath when he shared a post of himself in the snow — except his was taken in another country). Finally, […]
