What is your skin colour worth?

FEB 5 — Complete bewilderment washed over me when I read that a golf club had assigned a price tag to my skin colour.While I may not care very much for golf, I could not help but ...

Time for the government to catch up

DEC 31 — The last few months have been exhausting. Just the thought of picking up a pen to argue some sense against decisions made in this country made me want to crawl into a ...

Leave a light on for me, AJ

SEPT 26 — At around 4am, my eyes flew open. I lay in bed, wondering why. My thoughts immediately turned to AJ, lying on his hospital bed.I got a cold, sinking feeling. Then the ...

Now what?

SEPT 17 — Glued to the radio, I listened as the prime minister took away some laws and announced plans for new ones.While it was heartening to note that the next time my friends ...

What’s so different about this wedding then?

AUG 21 — Marriage. A word that in my teens appalled me, in my 20s feared me, and now, in my 30s, makes me want to lift my hand in salute to those taking the plunge. Marriage. A ...