TABOO TOPICS
Taboo Topics is a series dedicated to sharing stories from real live people [mostly who i know] on real life issues, situations or experiences that are seldom spoken about for various reasons. So far the topics that have been addressed [with links to all the stories] are the following:
Dealing with the Grief of losing Someone you Love
Living with Disabilities/Special Needs
Marriage [when it’s not been easy]
Parents of Young Children [where it hasn’t all been easy and fun and struggle free]
I hope these will be of encouragement to you and to friends and family who you know who have been through similar things – please feel free to share the stories or send links to people who you think might appreciate them.
love brett “fish” [brettfish@hotmail.com]
Taboo Topic: Cancer – Journeying with Aaron [Testicular Cancer] – Intro
This is going to be a little bit of a different one. i 'met' Aaron online, as much as you can 'meet' anyone online [i think you can] and i don't even remember how although [...]
Taboo Topics: Race – What I would love my white friends to hear – Meet Juliet Paulse
Growing up in Cape Town in a largely coloured area, the perceptions about white and black people were always negative. So naturally I took that on as the norm (as that was my context). I [...]
Taboo Topic: Tantrums – Meet Kirby and Sean Greathead
So this post by my friend Sean’s wife, Kirby, is a little bit different [was an eye-opener for me] as it differentiates between Tantrums and Meltdowns and i would love to hear some response to [...]
Taboo Topic: Tantrums – Meet Belinda Mountain
This is a post that Belinda Mountain has generously allowed me to use. Make sure you click through to her blog 'Making Mountains' (out of molehills) which i link to at the end of this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Taboo Topic: Tantrums [Intro]
i don't have children, but i have lived among them. i can imagine that one of the scariest things for a parent [after safety/health issues] must be that moment when your young child throws themselves [...]
Taboo Topics: Parents of young children – Meet Terran and Julie [and their 5!]
My friends Terran and Julie Williams were going about life with their three delightful children, sharing regular stories of funny statements and learnt lessons and chaotic moments, when suddenly the news of a 4th child [...]
Happy Birthday Americans with Disabilities Act
A while back, under the Taboo Topics section of my blog i invited a group of friends to share some stories they are living with regards to disability. This week i was asked if i could [...]
Taboo Topic: Marriage Counselling – part Intro
I have often said that ‘Being Married to the Right Person’ is one of the best things in the World’ and I hold by that. Not the easiest though. Or the most comfortable necessarily. A [...]
Taboo Topics: Vegetarianism – Meet Lameez Omarjee
I used to be a vegetarian Back in 2013, I decided to become a vegetarian. I followed a meat-free diet for a solid year. I didn’t stick to it because I never had a good [...]