With load shedding causing so much disruption to our lives, the other day I decided to try and use it in a positive way.  So I lit an old fashioned hurricane lamp I had and sat on the couch with the animals in the flickering light in front of a silent tv with no electric lights or generators or anything …

When we’re young, parents introduce us to a slew of developmental toys to assist with healthy and intelligent brain growth. But do we ever stop developing our brains? Anyone remember the colourful soccer ball sized sphere that you could fit different shapes into? It then split apart to get the pieces out so you can try again. But when we …

There’s a Guns n Roses song, Don’t Damn Me, from the 90’s, before the internet and mobile phones. It has a line in the lyrics that says “The trash collected by the eyes and dumped into the brain” and it couldn’t be more apt 30 years later on the anniversary of its release. It’s insane how we’ve become a culture …