Reading Time: 6 min I’m a sucker for love. Any kind of love. During the lockdown I thought a lot about the love we gained, the love we lost and all the…
Reading Time: 10 min This Women’s Day, we decided to reflect on all of the things that separate us from each other. We tried to find the beauty in our differences because…
Reading Time: 4 min This all started when my mom called to tell me that my cousin is getting married. I’m the oldest of six and both my youngest cousins are engaged.…
Reading Time: 7 min As Elené recently put so eloquently, the notion of home has recently extended into our personalities and has, in some ways, become our personalities: “It’s an osmotic process,…
Reading Time: 4 min “Huis, paleis, pandok, varkhok…” is an Afrikaans saying or game that we used to play to determine where we would one day end up living during preschool. This…
Reading Time: 3 min A few months ago I introduced you to the girl with the shoulder pads and the anxiety disorder who was most likely sipping whiskey at the local bar. …
Reading Time: 2 min I am so happy to finally share “Living with yourself”: Episode 2 with you. If you missed the first episode, watch it here. I have always been afraid…
Reading Time: 3 min I know, you thought dating after 25 in 2020 is hard enough already, right? Well buckle up buttercup, it’s corona time! Here we are stuck at home, overwhelmed…
Reading Time: 4 min Hey, I’m Liezel and I’m a bit of a neat freak. This was fine in my pre-motherhood life but now that my baba is turning into a toddler,…
Reading Time: 11 min The 9Lives team is a group of very different people, and we are in very different stages of our lives. Some of us are married, others just moved…