INA BRINK

It seems surreal to finally hold a copy of my first published novel in my hands, to run my fingers through the pages, to smell the intoxicating smell of invitation, to read the mysteries that are printed on the pages and the sheer weight of the book. I have to keep reminding myself that I did this, I spent hours on it, I had to make sacrifices to find the time to invest in this dream of publishing my work and the acknowledgement that my work was worthy of publication. So toda

Today, while I was busy with my normal work duties, I needed to fill in a PDF document quite urgently. Now, seeing that I work on a computer daily, like most of our office mice do, I am quite efficient on a keyboard as well as steering through the maze of commands and directions needed to complete such a task. Normally I would dust off such a task in a few minutes, but for some reason my day was just not running as smoothly as I am used to. Firstly, my computer froze, and I h

Since I am working in the food industry, the following analogy came to mind as I sat opposite the table from the one person, I have spent 30 years with. He has thus been my confidant, lover, partner, creator of humans and the building partner of our children’s environment and the most important part of my life up to this point. We have created a union; most will call it a marriage; we now call it a partnership. We had to build our institution from scratch, without the help of

Diversity is needed in life. Without it there would be no balance. Taking in account that we are human; we should firstly understand that our human right is choice. Our uniqueness accounts for a multitude of different influences and stimuli, which makes us react and experience life to the abilities of our understanding. Now it gets quite complicated when you study the human condition. No person on earth is one hundred percent the same by physical design, nor by mental ability