Blog : Brett Fish

10 More Things i Don’t Understand

Not too long ago i shared a list of 10 Things i struggle to get my mind around... This was quite a varied lists of topics and included such items as pineapple on pizza, litter [special mention to cigarette butts out car windows], people's confusion with regards to four way stops, recent Adam Sandler movies [bonus cameo by Will Ferrell], the 'joke' insult, make-your-best-friend-look-and-act-like-a-tit bachelor party vibes, the difference between adopted children and real children, [...]

By brettfish|2015-08-27T10:39:10+02:00August 27th, 2015|challenging thorts, fun, things to wrestle with, top 10 List|5 Comments

Micropoem: closed

closed your words tell me you are listening but your manner suggests to me you have already decided what you are going to hear [For more of my Micropoems, click here]

By brettfish|2015-08-26T11:22:03+02:00August 26th, 2015|poems and other creativity|1 Comment

With Justice For All – part economic systems

i really enjoyed reading this book by John Perkins recently. Despite being about his experiences in Americaland i found that so much of it resonated with the present conversations happening in South Africa. The passage i posted on Why Do You Live Where You Live? gave much food for thought and there are some other pieces i would love to share, but as always, you will do much better if you just make some effort [...]

By brettfish|2015-08-25T09:57:46+02:00August 25th, 2015|change the world, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, what i am reading|2 Comments

Taboo Topic: Tantrums – Meet Leigh Geary

This is a piece that was shared with me by Leigh Geary but which originally was published on her blog, The Mom Diaries under the title, 'The Terrible Twos: Am I being punished for all my sins?' Lets talk about the terrible two’s shall we? Holy Moley! I think I’m about to lose my shit in a big way but lets face it that would just be teaching him that tantrums and inappropriate behavior are [...]

By brettfish|2025-05-09T16:53:18+02:00August 24th, 2015|family, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, things to wrestle with|2 Comments

Taboo Topic: Tantrums – Meet Wendy Lewin

For the past 3 weeks, Masi has really been struggling to go to sleep. And when I talk about Masi struggling, I don’t mean that he just lies in his bed and plays with his fingers and can’t doze off – I mean he jumps out of bed and slams the door repeatedly, he pulls the curtains down, he opens his cupboard and flings all his clothes around the floor, he jumps on his sister [...]

By brettfish|2015-08-21T11:14:38+02:00August 21st, 2015|family, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|2 Comments

Taboo Topic: Tantrums – Meet Candice D’Arcy

[Candice is one of my oldest [as in time spent together] Improv friends and now that she has moved to Australia i am realising how much i miss not having her around… but she has written an excellent post which i’m sure is going to resonate with and encourage many of you so here goes…] Because I am going through a challenging phase with my teenaged daughter and many of my friends are having babies [...]

By brettfish|2015-08-20T16:02:28+02:00August 20th, 2015|inspire-ations, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|3 Comments

Who am i reading? [2015]

i love to read. i was challenged a couple of years ago by the idea of diversifying the voices that i invited to speak into my life. For me that related mostly to books as i don’t tend to find the time slash bandwidth to do much podcast listening, but it would apply to both. […]

By brettfish|2015-08-19T10:37:09+02:00August 19th, 2015|what i am reading|8 Comments

10 Practical Ways to Change your Country for the better [part II]

A lot of people complain about South Africa or just feel completely overwhelmed by stories [and experiences] of crime or corruption and more. There is good reason for a lot of that, but if you aren’t planning on leaving the country, then it makes a lot more sense to be a part of the change. In Part I, we looked at five practical ways at which we can genuinely get involved in seeing change in [...]

By brettfish|2015-08-18T13:21:58+02:00August 18th, 2015|activities, challenging thorts, change the world, local news, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with|5 Comments

So You Think You Can Veg too? [More inspiring meal plans and recipes]

With the Meat-Free challenge just a week away [Can you go ONE whole week without eating meat?] i posted a series of food plan ideas and recipes for those of you who were left shell-shocked by the mere suggestion… but on the off chance that that was not enough – and for those of us doing regular Meat-Free Mondays or like tbV and myself at the moment alternating weeks with meat on and meat off [...]

By brettfish|2015-08-17T10:47:59+02:00August 17th, 2015|activities, adventures, Food and foodlike things, inspire-ations, thorts of other people|3 Comments

a Prayer to Guide your Week

It is the start of a brand new week. With it come opportunities to reflect on what has been, to consider what might be, to wipe slates clean and start again, to get freshly excited for old relationships and new causes, to lift up your head once more and believe in everything that is possible, to seek forgiveness where relationships might be frayed, to entertain the 'What If?' of the seemingly impossible and to consider [...]