mysimplevoice

I h ave come to the conclusion that the key to true and everlasting happiness is to have no expectations.  Not for myself and not for anyone else or of life itself. Don't get me wrong, I consider myself as a positive and happy person.  I have even been described by my hubby as seeing life through rose tinted glasses.  I am happy and healthy, but over 40. So its only natural to start questioning life now at the ripe old age of 44. I have a very strong belief in God and that should give me enough reason to be at peace with myself and the world around me, right? Sadly, I must confess that I have more questions than ever before about how to achieve true happiness. From the moment babies are born into this world, they are expected to reach certain milestones in their infant lives. On a physical level, they should start smiling after a couple of weeks, they should be sitting at about 5 to 6 months, crawl by more or less 7 or 8 months and if they don't walk by the time the...

The problem with boys… This is not a scholarly or well-researched article.   This is just me trying to put my thoughts on paper about something that has been bothering me immensely for a while now. This article is about our boys… I have always had a soft spot, call it a sort of sorry feeling, for boys going to school.   As a high school teacher and an English Home Language one at that, I always tried my best to make my subject interesting for those boys who preferred to sit at the back of the class and whom I could see were just biding their time until they could put School well and truly behind them.   The languages just always seem to trip a lot of boys up and I saw many a boy who was fearless on the rugby field, break out in a sweat when he had to do an oral or read aloud.   My classes always involved a lot of moving around, group work and interesting subjects with which I would try to entice the male gender to love my lessons.   By sheer coincidence...