Just heard that I won the ‘Feature Writer of the Year’ Pica award on Thursday night for Lost in the Mist. I didn’t know that Femina had entered it, so it came as a complete surprise. I’m especially pleased to have it for a story that’s so close to my heart. This one is for you, ma. (See [...]
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Moments before sunrise, the beach is a low-tide swathe of silvery sand, cold and firm underfoot. The water is flat and grey, skimmed by seagulls and ploughed, with miniscule splashes, by two stalwarts taking their morning exercise. I breathe deeply, enjoying the freedom of this place that has always restored [...]
How often do you stop and take stock of your life? When last did you ask yourself who you really are – not the roles you play, but the awareness that remains when the masks are stripped away? When last [...]
Forget car trouble. These days it’s a computer crisis that brings out the hero in men. By Catherine Eden
Recently, my temperamental computer launched a campaign to [...] Celebrating a young woman’s transition to adulthood has surprising benefits for everyone involved in the ritual. CATHERINE EDEN spoke to mothers, daughters and mentors who have made an ancient custom part of their Western tradition
Rites of passage are as old as the hills; vital to maintaining the [...]
Eva A woman with only a cat for company has no time to be lonely. A woman with a cat is a woman in training. By CATHERINE EDEN
Eva came to me as all cats do; in response to a psychic call. A home had [...]
It’s seven o’clock on a crisp Cape morning. The tablecloth, freshly laundered, billows on the mountaintop and sudsy white horses prance in the bay. For the moment, the city’s attractions go unnoticed. Tourists dream under their hotel duvets, oblivious of the sights they’ll later be sighing over. And up [...] |
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