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Dear Carla: So my daughter who is 17, is an honour student always abides by curfew. She works and pays for her own phone, participates in community service etc. She asked me if she can go to a hotel for New Year’s Eve with friends. I said, “no”. She ...

I’ve a friend who tells me, whenever I express doubts about getting my column in on time, that I should just recycle the old articles I’ve written. “Pull out the Greatest Hits” he says, “like the Eagles did”. It turns out that The Eagles ‘Their Great...

Dear Carla, I am the best super nice ex ever; after 10 years of unnecessary child-like drama and slander, the wife finally is attempting to be nice allowing our 11-year-old son to sleep over however, the childless wicked stepmother emerges to our son...

Miracles. Christmas is the time for miracles. Not the ones you might dream about that might be earth shattering but rather the small ones that come from the relationships in families, friends and community. This time of year our level of consciousnes...

Steps to Success Who hasn’t found themselves faced with a tricky question: just unwrapped an awful gift from Great-Aunt So-and-So: “Don’t you love it my dear?” A hungover colleague, “how was my karaoke at the Christmas party last night?” Or the BFF ...

December 19, 2013 Dear Sir, I wish everyone an enjoyable holiday and courage and vision to face the new year with its challenges. I am not pushing any mysticism when I say I sense the mood of the country as similar to the 70s. It’s like deja-vu, we h...

People say to me all the time ‘it must be hard to be a vet because animals can’t tell you what’s wrong’. I always reply that they speak loud and clear if you know what to listen for. This is no more true than with our ageing pets, although geriatric ...

Dear Sir, Re: Concentration on Rights but not Responsibilities Recent articles, letters-to-the-editor and online comments accompanying the preceding seemed to be focused on the rights of individuals. There is a concerted pushback in modern times agai...

December 17, 2013 Dear Sir, On behalf of the organisations which collaborated on the Celebration to the Life of Nelson Mandela on December 15th, we wish to thank all who made it a success. This includes Canon Thomas Nisbett and Rev. Calvin Stone for...