It’s one of those Saturday nights where I’m feeling between the shadows and the soul, as Neruda once said. My final research report is due next week, so I can complete my Post Graduate Diploma in Information Management from the University of Johannesburg (old RAU). So I have to dig in and resist the temptation…
What if you had a secret? A secret so big that, when revealed, it would make your girlfriend/boyfriend pull away from you in fear of contamination. This would be a hurtful experience. However, this is what faces many HIV positive people. To help HIV positive people find an ideal partner who shares or accepts their…
It should come as no surprise that the subject of this book is, of course, love. More specifically, Alberoni deals with those all-too-brief and utterly captivating moments when one first falls in love. He attempts to unlock all the rather bizarre and, sometimes, completely diotic forces that drive our behaviour in this frenzied state. For…
My friend, former massage therapist and South Africa’s leading chirologer, Jenny Hirsch, sent me this poem once. It resonated so much with me because of the Taoist-inspired structure, I based on my research into attraction, dating and social dynamics between male and female on. Black Monday Lovesong by ASJ Tessimond In love’s dances, in love’s…
I took a walk tonight just to clear my head. Trying to write 10,000 words for an assignment is no mean task. Well, it was around 8 pm and the sky in Johannesburg was clear. I tried to identify Orion’s Belt as I have been doing in recent months whenever there is a clear sky….