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 Topics: Vegetarianism – Meet Mary Twin Enslin
10 things vegetarians are sick of hearing / your vegetarian friends want you to know I became a vegetarian on my ninth birthday. This usually elicits shock and the assumption that I am vegetarian because [...]
Do the Different need a Disclaimer?
This morning i went to a prayer meeting i used to regularly attend when we lived in Oakland a year ago. This other couple arrived just behind us and so i turned around and greeted them, [...]
Taboo Topics: Vegetarianism – Meet Amy Benn
My journey into vegetarianism started how I imagine it did for many other people. I sat (in my case in my school’s hall) watching a documentary on chicken farming. I was horrified. I had always [...]
Taboo Topics: Vegetarianism – Meet Abi Ornellis
Why I’m [kind of, mostly] a vegetarian. Let me start off by saying that I like eating animals. In my early university days, I probably ate a bacon sandwich at least four times a week. [...]
Taboo Topics: Vegetarianism – Meet S’thabiso Khuluse
My Facebook friend S'thabiso gives this topic a little bit of a different spin as she addresses: 5 questions you ask guaranteed to break the peace with any 'black' vegetarian If you have prior to [...]
Taboo Topics: Vegetarianism – Meet Bryan Hash
I was always taught to show love to animals, dogs, cats, cows, pigs, horses, etc. But never was I really challenged to think about the meat that was lying in front of me to eat. [...]
Taboo Topics: Vegetarianism – Meet MJ Philip
Growing up I was never the world’s greatest lover of animals. I liked dogs because they were fun and horses because well... Zorro, but most of the rest of the animal kingdom tended to inspire [...]
Taboo Topics: Vegetarianism – Meet Ashleigh Holloway
I quite like animals. Not in a crazy, dress them up like humans and pretend they’re people kinda way, but I do like them. (Having said that, I definitely officiated at least one wedding between [...]
Taboo Topics: Vegetarianism – Intro
i have a lot of good friends who are vegetarians. They are not a bunch of weirdos or hippies [as some non-vegetarians might presume] and for the most part if you met them as part [...]
Andrea responds to Bob responding to everyone but Andrea
My friend Dre, who shared some excellent feedback to Bob's first email over here, responded to his latest response in a comment but i asked her if i could rather share it as a post cos [...]
Taboo Topics: Cancer – Meet Wendy and Xylon van Eyck
I don’t know about you but growing up I believed that old people and other people got cancer. My gran passed away from cancer when I was in my early teens. So I knew cancer [...]
Taboo Topics: Race – Mixed Race Connections – Meet Wendy and Xylon Van Eyck
[Disclaimer: while in Americaland, the term “coloured” is a strongly negative term, in South Africa there is a unique group of people who have come from a heritage of different cultures but now have developed their [...]