Wintering Well
Life lately: chickens, books, and beach mornings My son Jesse recently spent three weeks with his dad and that side of the family, travelling between Johannesburg, Hoedspruit, Kruger, and Marloth Park, where his grandparents live. He had such a wonderful time. They took him fishing many times, even though none of them are actually into fishing themselves, which I thought was such a loving thing to do for him. They...
Leap, and the Net Will Appear
My new contemplative The Artist's Way book group | Week 0 Welcome to The Artist’s Way group of my own dreams. For the next twelve weeks, I’ll be making my way through Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. We’ll be reading together, but this won’t be a traditional book club. I’m more interested in using the book as a jumping-off point for conversations about creativity, willingness, self-compassion, and what it actually looks like to...
Halfway Through the Year, I Realised I Needed a New Vision
The Ideal Day exercise from my 2026 By Design planning guide. We’ve reached the halfway point of the year, and if your year has gone anything like mine, you may be looking back at the goals you set in January and thinking: The version of me who made those plans had no idea what this year would ask of me. That’s certainly how I feel. This year has felt like...
I used to think my biggest problem was productivity…
Motherhood Changes the Shape of Work Once upon a time, I genuinely believed my biggest problem in life was productivity. Not unrealistic expectations. Not nervous system exhaustion. Not the fact that I was trying to mother, work, hold a household together, and somehow still feel like a functioning human. Nope. Productivity. I deep-dived productivity books like they contained the secrets to a life well lived. I made notes on the...
Building Work Around Motherhood
On flexible income, online work, and refusing to build a life entirely around institutions I recently saw a remote job listing aimed specifically at South Africans paying $2 an hour. Two dollars. Less than minimum wage once you convert it and stretch it across a full working day. And we can probably all picture exactly who those jobs are aimed at… Mothers. With laptops open at kitchen tables, babies on...
Baby Massage for Dummies
When I first became a mom over a decade ago, I wasn’t working at the time, and my then husband was still finishing up his studies. So I cashed in a small investment I had to buy all the baby essentials I was convinced I needed. You know; a pram, a high tech baby monitor, a breast pump. Being a bit addicted to buying books, I got a few of...
100 things that made my year (2022)
2022 is the year baby M was born and my youngest sister moved to Canada, taking my nephew and niece with her - my children bff’s. Other than those two biggies, it was a year filled with little spots of amazingness. I’ve listed 100 of them below. The birth of my third child Her being a girl and having that be the best surprise ever! Having another unassisted birth and...
Tips to get through suicide hour with autonomy & respectful parenting
Reading time: 5 min Suicide hour... you know that weird time in the late afternoon, early evening when the kids and you are both grumpy. You’re all hungry and tired and there are many transitions to make your way through... bath, making supper, eating supper, before you can get to that little piece of heaven called bedtime. I know how easily this time of the day can become a...
7 Time management tips for working & homeschooling moms
Reading time: 7 min This year, working from home, whilst schooling from home, has become mainstream. Now, more than ever moms are in need of some superhuman time management skills. I can't say I am unhappy about it (whilst I most certainly am unhappy about the circumstances; loss of freedom, and the projected 50% unemployment in South Africa, oh my!). "The idea that our society is best served when family...
Processing emotions & pandemic edition journal prompts
I have written things down for as long as I can remember. I would never call what I wrote journaling back then, it was more like incessant list making. But, I was never without a notebook. Fast forward a few years and I have become devoted to my journal practice as a way of keeping myself sane as life gets crazier and crazier. Journaling is like free therapy and as...
- « Previous
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- Next »