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…
Reading Time: 6 min My initial take on this so-called “think piece” about my first months in a first job went something like this: punchy intro, short yet concise tips, passionately optimistic…
Reading Time: 6 min Lockdown. Week 2. Yes, I do sound like a Schalk Bezuidenhout video, but in all honesty, I do feel a bit of his ditziness. It’s been another week,…
Reading Time: 4 min Hi, friend. It’s been more than a year since you walked out of my life one early morning in December. First things first, how was your year? I…