Last week, we heard a woman screaming out a string of insults at the workers in the apartment opposite ours. As we listened closer, we realized it was a neighbour from upstairs, calling the workers ‘animals’ etc. Their crime? They were doing their work – breaking the plaster prior to…
Celebrations and food – they go together, don’t they? In our home they do! On New Year’s day when talking on the telephone to my mother, she asked us what we planned eat for the day. She was a little taken aback when I told her I planned to cook…
I first came across Iyanla Vanzant when I happened to pick up a book of hers in 2006 – Yesterday, I Cried: Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving. I’ve been reading her off and on via her website and watching her on Oprah’s Lifeclass. Iyanla’s no-nonsense style and ‘telling…