Swart Donkey

The harder you hold onto something, the more likely you are to lose it. I am a Scatterling of Africa. A Soutie. A Vagabond. One who has no...

As a Soutie, I can't move home. Home isn't a place. It feels more like a state of mind. Of heart. One of my feet sits on a muddy is...

Why do we live where we live? Daniel Gilbert talks about the three biggest determinants of our happiness being where we live, what we do, ...

Burford High Street I live in the medieval town of Burford, in the Cotswold hills of Oxfordshire . After living in London from 2008 ...

Back to where we began Some of the Class of '97 This weekend was my 20 year school reunion. A number of Old Boys from 10, 20, ...

By lending money to people to buy houses, you don't make houses more affordable. You create money , not roofs. The financial world he...

I began writing this post during a study break in a computer lab. Tired, caffeine deprived, broke, wearing the same jacket I had worn for ...

My grandparents have moved home a few times. Whenever I see their new place, it immediately feels like a visit to Gran and Grampa . The fur...

Home is where the 'what' is? In Stumbling on Happiness, Dan Gilbert talks about the traditional three big drivers of how your life...

Objects carry meaning for us . We like them when we buy them, but after we have had experiences with them they carry some sort of mystical ...