Where do you live and how long have you lived there? I live in Oakland, California. If I jump in my car and if there’s no traffic on the Bay Bridge, I can be in downtown San Francisco in 15 minutes. I’ve lived in Oakland for nearly eight years, in an apartment with a view of Lake […]
“You use the train?” she asked me, looking down her nose through her readers. Amassing me with the ‘them’ who relied on the grey and yellow carriages in the Cape Peninsular. I love the train, the carrier of personal worlds and private realities. I remember my first trip, the first time I engaged, not as […]
I was walking along a country lane near my home recently, mulling over all the things I had to do that day when in the distance, I saw an elderly man rummaging through his refuse bin. As I contined to agonise over the business of life, finances, career, children and schooling—all the issues that can consume […]
‘World Cup fever’, apparently, is ‘upon us’. What with several dozen posters, tens of advertisements and an impressively bright pair of billboards, it’s not hard to see why. But, lest readers think me unpatriotic, let’s give credit where credit is due. To Germany, for example. It’s a fine place, filled with the crisp and the […]
What is your business and how did it start? Mums and Kids Enterprises started in 2005. The idea was to solve a problem I had with sheets, sheet bags and all the bits I had to remember to take to and from Childcare! This was the start of the Kozy Koala™ Sleepmat which is […]
Xanita’s X-Board and X-Core have recently been accepted into the Material ConneXion’s libraries, located in five major cities worldwide, namely New York (United States), Bangkok (Thailand), Cologne (Germany), Daegu (Korea) and Milan (Italy). Material ConneXion is the leading global platform for material solutions and innovations. Built on the belief that “every idea has a […]
Cape Town writer Lisa Lazarus doesn’t mince her words when explaining why she wrote The Book of Jacob—her joint memoir of a couple’s journey into parenthood. ”I wrote it because I was cross, in truth I was furious—the book really burst out of me,” she said at the recent launch of the book, which was […]
“So this is what they’re supposed to taste like … ” Sample the vast array of freshly grown produce at a farmer’s market and you’ll immediately understand that the bland supermarket offerings are a long way off from nature’s true bounty. Freshly inspired by Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (HarperCollins) in which her family resolves to […]
Where do you live and how different is it to your previous suburb in South Africa? I live in Calamvale, a southern suburb of Brisbane. There is a lot of development in the area, including many townhouses. In South Africa I lived in Assagay, which had lots of big properties, including smallholdings and small […]
‘A story of food, healing and love’ reads the blurb. It’s that … and more. Food writer, Maggie goes on a quest to Beijing, China, to discover the truth behind her late husband’s infidelity and subsequent paternity suit. The search coincides with the opportunity to interview rising culinary star, Sam Liang for a magazine. The story […]
