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I grew up in Namibia, and to this day I prefer the brown sand dunes to the beautiful mist-filled green forests and blue mountains where I live now.

I started writing when I was about four, by cutting words from a newspaper and relying on my dad to show me the

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Travel > Travel Diaries & Adventures (Other) Why do you like where you currently live?: 4 of 125
Our farm lies halfway up the escarpment of the Eastern Lowveld of Mpumalanga, which means 'Place where the sun rises'. It is a mountainous region of vistas and views. Even though I live in Africa, every view is dappled with impressionistic paintings: Through each window of my house I see Pissaro landscapes or Monet's or Renoi... More..
Home & Garden > Lawn How to get rid of dandelions: 4 of 21
When I saw this title, I had such a marvelous idea. I wanted to write only: "Eat them," and have done with it. But the powers that be at the Helium desk are obviously wiser than I thought. I think they purposely choose titles to baffle us. See now, I don't know how many essays were written on how to get rid of dandelion, and ... More..
Creative Writing > Songs Songs: Love: 81 of 273
What I wantWhat I want is a whole lot of youamongst mountains and rivers and sky so blue;maybe a meal of bread and wine -but what I want most is to make you mine.So come to me, baby, drink to my eyes,let's talk a long time without goodbyes;let magic sing through heart and veinsbring love to the land where sorrow reigns.What I... More..
Autos > Driving & Safety Driver safety: Prevent road rage: 20 of 66
Living in a country known for its volatile disagreements, and being married to the father of all road rage-rs (literally, as my sons rage just like daddy) this surely make me an expert on road rage. Especially since I used to be part of the crowd, myself. That is, until the day I tried to drive round a block in Rome, while my... More..
Relationships & Family > Humor & Laughter Laughter's link to romance: 9 of 26
The most laudable characteristic about laughter is the fact that it makes us open up. Through laughing we become more than we are, through crying we become less, we grow smaller. Sorrow is inclined to have one fold over as if to get all the outside inside; with laughter it is the opposite. One wants to throw open ones arms, e... More..
Arts & Humanities > Writing Tips How to write a pantoum poem: 3 of 6
The pantoum we know today is a repetitious poem of four or more stanzas; sometimes formal quatrains with specific rhymes in a fixed form, sometimes more playful in free verse, yet never in less than four quatrains but often carried on ad infinitum, as if the poet didn't know how to stop. Even though the rules have been relaxe... More..
Creative Writing > Satire Satire: Pain in life: 1 of 1
I recently lost the sight in my left eye.It didn't come suddenly, but over a period of more than two years, I was slowly but surely geared towards the - for me - ultimate disaster, by being attacked on the left side of my body from my feet upwards. Not only am I a published author having to keep up my image by regularly writi... More..
Relationships & Family > Cheating Spouses & Affairs How to rebuild trust in a marriage damaged by infidelities: 26 of 46
Trust is built up over time. So is the relationship between a man and a woman in a marriage. If this trust is broken, it will need double the time and probably more than double the effort it took for the relationship to become what it was, before trust was broken. But trust has a lot to do with respect; one can only respect s... More..
Arts & Humanities > Writing Tips How to write a biography: 4 of 6
Biographies are not about truth. They are at best about the biographer's perception of what he remembers or what he researched in connection with his subject be it himself or history whatever kind. The question, therefore, should rather be: How to read a biography. The answer to which I think would be to read as many biograph... More..
Education > Homework & Testing How to help a child who doesn't like his teacher: 20 of 24
It is a very incomprehensible act to be able to help a child who doesn't like his teacher; children, especially the young ones, has an uncanny sense of reality and truth. They know the worth of a person much better than any investigative operator could. And secondly, being liked, even loved by his or her class, lies in the ha... More..