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St Francis Bay freelance journalist Beth Cooper Howell takes a look at life in Woman on Top, her weekly lifestyle column for The Herald
Long after the agitators, doomsayers, politicians, international puppetmasters and local skelms have blown away from our continent, like so much sand after a storm, we will continue to be who we are: the embodiment of ubuntu.
Sweden’s answer to modern excess is lagom, which roughly translates to “just enough”.
There are friends who ask how you are, and there are friends who arrive before you’ve even worked out how to answer.
For years, my go-to gift for milestones hasn’t been chocolate or balloons, but notebooks.
There’s a particular stillness that happens in the ocean between sets.
South Africans are, quite possibly, the most generous taxpayers on the planet.
Last week, my newsfeed erupted with a breaking story: Charlie Kirk, a well-known political figure in America, was shot and killed while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University.
“It’s a mystery,” said my husband, as we tore around the house last Sunday morning, trying to find the cause of the unexpected boom-crash-bang on the roof, and the ear-splitting, growling rumble of thunder (which wasn’t thunder) that…
I often forget that Women’s Day is celebrated on August 9, because that day is also my father-in-law’s birthday, and falls a day after my husband’s birthday.
This is a true story about a lady named Grace, but it is also a tale of grace.
The natural world is, quite frankly, unimaginably powerful.
Using a full stop in an instant message after “fine”, when your lover has just cancelled on you and ruined an hours-to-prepare, six-course dinner, shows annoyance.
Researchers reportedly have found that swearing, done in the heat of the moment, may actually have a cathartic effect — it can make us feel better after being injured or hurt emotionally.
I married well. More than a decade of marriage and umpteen years of official togetherness is likely to evolve along one of three paths — complacency, growth or stagnation. While my husband, Mark, has certainly grown in myriad ways, I’ve…
In the novel The Fault in Our Stars, heroine Hazel experiences a deep nostalgia for the childhood freedom and comfort symbolised by her disused swing set languishing in the backyard.
