Feature Stories

Most of us see it every day. Maybe several times a day. Fluttering high over government buildings, large-scale institutions, tourist spots, the list goes on. The red and yellow is also nigh-on inescapable around each National Day. But what...

Mariel had been told that she’d been born white as wedding-cake frosting, but she wasn’t white anymore.  She looked down at her hands and saw the yellow collected on her fingers like she had been playing with corn flour. It...

Have you ever realised the significance of the role that gestures have and continue to play throughout our lives?  The word by definition means, “a movement of part of the body, to express an idea or meaning”. As infants, when...

Robin had read a while ago that most of a conversation is conveyed without words.  She’d dismissed it at the time, citing her own drastic inability to guess at people’s words and meanings without being explicitly told, and when the...

As the balmy sun nudges me from my winter slumber, I feel an almost euphoric delight to live in the Southern Capital, primed to enjoy the Spring on Steroids that is passing as I type.  But in March, Women’s History...

“Lucky, you hear that?”  I ask as I pull the pillow over my head, awakening from a restless sleep. I look over at Lucky, who climbs over to me and nuzzles my cheek, and I scratch behind his ears.  I try...

We used to have a kettle. A kind of fancy thing that could not only boil water, but also keep it at various nominated temperatures for hours. Trouble was the blessed thing would beep incessantly and loudly every time...

I like to start these articles with a consideration of the topic.  “Noise” seems to carry some hefty negative connotations.  We think of blaring sirens, random shouting, unexpected bangs that grind the patience or jolt the nerves.  “Noise” implies...