There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, ‘If I could only see the world, I will marry you.’ One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off,…
Today is my mother, Illona Murray’s, 57th birthday. I’m not sure exactly what to say to my mother when I wish her today. She is living in Uitenhage, and I live in Johannesburg. During February, I spent 3 weeks visiting he,r and it was essentially my December holiday. Like all mothers and son’s we have…
A few weeks ago, I did my first interview with Kate Turkington on Talk Radio 702 and Cape Talk. My good friend Reuel Leach recorded it for me and emailed me the MP3 file of this interview for download soon afterwards. Whatever you know about Taoism is probably limited to the many myths about Eastern…
Due to unforeseen circumstances I’ve been forced to move the date of the next Internet Cafe workshop schedules for this Saturday. The primary reason for this is that I’ve been on a short break in Uitenhage and on Sunday missed my flight back to Johannesburg. My car has been parked at OR Tambo airport for…
This is originally from the Facebook Blog: At Facebook, we’re constantly connecting with interesting people—from experts in their field, academics and researchers to celebrities or visitors to our office. Occasionally, we’ll share these conversations on the Facebook Blog in our “Connecting with….” series. I had the opportunity to speak with Sam Gosling, professor of psychology…