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How do you know you have a living book in your hands? You are reading a book to your children, 8 and 11 years old, and they narrate back...

(Originally published in Common Place Quarterley's " Character(s) To Live By" column) I’m writing this article in the middle of the...

"Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, the counsel- chamber of thought." —Attributed...

(Originally published in Common Place Quarterley's "Character(s) To Live By"column) If I chose to hide you away, it is for a reason. I have brought you to this place. Drink in the silence. Seek solitude. Listen to the silence. It will teach you. It will build strength Let others share it with you. It is little to be found elsewhere. Silence will speak more to you in a day than the world of voices can teach you in a lifetime. Find silence. Find solitude – and having discovered

Welcome to our November-December readalong! We know this is a crazy-busy time of year for most people, and so we have chosen three...

When I was little, my father used to run a race called The Jock in Barberton. It was always a lovely holiday for us kids: lots of...

(The Young Readers Edition) OF HOMERS AND HEROES (Originally published in Common Place Quarterley's 'Character(s) To Live By' column) As...

I have fond memories of going to the library as a child. I can remember the old library building with its pretty fountain in the parking area and a jungle gym between the children’s and adults’ sections. I never quite understood why anyone would go to the library only to play on the jungle gym, though. I remember having four envelope-type cards—this was the ‘Eighties—three for fiction and one for non-fiction. I remember checking out the Little Men and Little Miss books. And I

OF HOMERS AND HEROES (Originally published in Common Place Quarterley's 'Character(s) To Live By' column) Once we Zimbabweans also sang the national anthem of our neighbour South Africa. I’ve read ‘Cry, the Beloved Country’, a South African story, at a time when my nation is in the middle of a spiralling economic downfall. Prices of everyday necessities have sky-rocketed, corruption is rife, teachers and doctors are on strike and the young and old are dying in a floundering

OF HOMERS AND HEROES (Originally published in Common Place Quarterley's 'Character(s) To Live By' column) “Homer sang of his ‘wine-dark...