Andrew Bramley

‘You don’t drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there.’ Edwin Louis Cole I learned the term ‘work depression’ in relation to job hunting. Being out of work for an extended time can deliver a giant dose of work depression, leaving you hopeless and without energy to keep going, which is why […]

I noticed as the Christmas season drew nearer how the driving on the roads got decidedly worse. On a single trip to town, I witnessed one accident and two near misses as one car cut in front of another to get ahead, while another tried unsuccessfully to pass on the inside shoulder of the road.

‘The first step towards getting somewhere is deciding you’re not going to stay where you are.’ John Pierpont Morgan (15-minute read) My Dad bought the handsome dark green Volvo. He drove it proudly till he died, after which it became mine. When Grandpa, my father-in-law, needed a more reliable car, I gave him the Volvo

(6-minute read) It’s Sunday morning, and I’m sitting up in bed with good coffee gazing out over our sunny morning garden. Across my legs lies Poppy, a medium-sized fawn-coloured dog who came to us through my son Sam who worked for many years at our local Animal Welfare clinic. Poppy When Poppy arrived, her ribs

I received a phone call at my office one day that started like this. “Hoe spring jy?” (How do you jump?) “Where do you want to jump to?” I enquired cautiously, wondering whether the caller, who introduced himself as Johan, had the right number. “Well, I heard the way to make a career change is

I retrieved the newspaper from under the door of my hotel room. The headline announced a ‘Bloody third quarter’ with another one million jobs lost. Later that morning, in the auditorium of a large corporation, I looked out at a sea of unknown, grey, disbelieving faces as they were told they were losing their jobs