The couch loves a happy story, especially one that involves dogs. We were overjoyed when this one dropped unexpectedly into our WhatsApp box.
We should consider that we do not always see someone’s grief, and try to be more gentle and kind in general so that life will smile, maybe not as brightly as before, ...
The unlikely comparison of our body politic and the solid union in our pack came up with the introduction of a new kid on the block, causing utter chaos.
While we sink in outrage, fear and uncertainty in the Saffer sewer of corruption, politics, politicians and criminals, sometimes one and the same, it’s stories like ...
Muscle memory is a wondrous thing until it gets amnesia. Then it can be a painful condition with serious consequences.
Back when we had a two-pack, the couch was but a single armchair, a refuge from the TV and tense motherly challenges of raising a teen.
This may be just hair but a word to the wise: if you’re considering changing things, look out for the sharp teeth of unintended consequences.
Saffers are so accustomed to being lied to, placing their trust in organisations and entities only to have it shattered, that most of us don’t believe a thing anyone ...
Needles scare the hell out of so many people that it has a name: trypanophobia, a fear of needles in a medical setting.
Top of the list is water. I am very grateful for our crumbling infrastructure and water outages.
Maybe an open letter to most – but not all – PR people will help.
International Wildlife Day is celebrated Sunday ‒ and preserving it is everybody’s business.
Terrible visions of being impaled are the only explanation for being so prematurely delighted to have solid ground beneath my bum.
The last easy-peasy knitting project took 14 years and provided a snake haven; here we go again.
A pastel baby blue plastic and aluminium, rigid-backed old person shower chair is an acknowledgement that age may just be a number, but someone forgot to tell my ...
A special forces soldier who survived the 2012 attack described in the book and film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi described Durban as one of the places ...
I have been mortified and shamed at being that ID10T enough times to know what to check before calling service desks and whining that something doesn’t work.
Admittedly disillusioned social scientist Brian Klaas credits his dog Zorro for happy moments walking, playing frisbee and incubating the startling theories he presents ...
If you made a terrible decision or life-altering mistake, there was bound to be some kindly, sympathetic observation that we are all just human and doing the best ...
Trying to revive an old Facebook account is like trying to raise the dead.
On the couch, the changeover starts in abject misery. From about 11. 30pm on the 31st, there’s a great deal of drug delivery and home inspection.
“Santa” is looking at Christmases past to place joy and comfort under trees this weekend.
You never know when it’ll give you your next gift. Some are small, others are life-changing.
Saffers would be grateful for any steady light right now, but enough with the gaslighting already.
The human occupant of the couch has been hounded from the couch. The battle had been anticipated, the brutality not so much.