(Using the tune of Sound of Silence)”sing tog saam” Hello darkness my old friend You’ve come to rob me once again I hear your footsteps softly creeping Through the house as I was sleeping And the brick you used to smash my window pane Still remains…. Within the Sounds of Sirens. In restless streets I […]

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits they become character; Watch your character; it becomes your destiny

– Ons is altyd laat. We would have missed all 4 flights. – We talk loud and would bring attention to ourselves. – Met free kos en cooldrink oppie plane, we’ll sommer forget why we’re there. – We praat with our hands, so we’ll continually be putting the weapons down. – We would ALL want […]

Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of ‘The Plain Dealer’, Cleveland , Ohio: To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the  45 lessons  life taught me. It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more: 1. Life isn’t fair, but […]

An oldie, but a goodie… When  things in your life seem almost too much to handle, When 24  hours in a day is not enough . . . remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of  coffee. A professor stood before his philosophy class and  had some items in front of him. When the class […]

BobbiBear exists to rescue and uphold the rights of sexually abused children in South Africa…

A special Woman’s Poem vir die mans wat hul vrou wil he soos ma was.

A class of five-year old students are learning to read. One of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said, “Look at this! It’s a frickin’ elephant!” The teacher took a deep breath, then asked…”What did you call it?” “It’s a frickin’ elephant! It says so on the picture!” And so it […]

See what happens if you sleep around: It’s ALWAYS the kids that suffer!! Her Name is Debra! Better than Zonkey, I suppose…

Onthou jy die Coppertone-meisie met haar hondjie wat haar blou swembroekie afgetrek het in die 60’s en 70’s? Wel, sy het groot geword en woon deesdae aan die KZN Suidkus, naby Margate iewers, en lyk deesdae so: (Blaai af) …die hondjie is dood.

From an email doing the rounds It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response, the way one of the kids will walk into the room while I’m on the phone and ask me a question. Inside I’m thinking, ‘Can’t you see I’m on the phone?’ Obviously, not. No one can […]

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