/Features/lifestyle/-/1214/1214/-/g1edpr/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/How+I+saved+young+man+future+marriage+/-/1214/1409256/-/k76p4m/-/index.html One reason I did not specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology was to avoid frequent night calls to conduct deliveries. 2012-05-19T13:17:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Anyone+with+Atwolis+contacts/-/1214/1409254/-/edwdmlz/-/index.html When I faulted the appointment of Juma to head this school, it was not out of envy: I just don’t believe he was the best candidate for the job. 2012-05-19T13:17:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/My+interaction+with+Indians+/-/1214/1409252/-/xc0k4n/-/index.html The colonial school system segregated Asian, European and African from each other and it was not until Makerere College that I had social interaction with Indians. 2012-05-19T13:17:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Learning+to+think+like+a+winner+/-/1214/1409250/-/j47tof/-/index.html What makes you a winner? Is it something you’re born with? Your upbringing? A talent? Your IQ? Luck? 2012-05-19T13:17:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Travelling+chefs+going+for+gold+/-/1214/1409248/-/1bfubkz/-/index.html There’s this rather nice story about a memsahib in the colonial days who was bemoaning the loss of her Kenyan long-standing 2012-05-19T13:17:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Want+to+embarrass+your+man/-/1214/1409246/-/w6uq70/-/index.html “Why do you women do this to yourselves?” the email began. It was from a reader calling himself Freddie. 2012-05-19T13:16:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Little+Love+can+see++by+sound+/-/1214/1409244/-/l3gup/-/index.html Adyati ‘Love’ Shah, 5, was born blind. But after being trained on echolocation, he can find his way around. All he needs to do is click his tongue to locate obstacles 2012-05-19T13:16:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Trappings+of+dirty+sexy+money++/-/1214/1404466/-/qcj4dez/-/index.html The Festival of the Creative Arts (FCA) produced a nearly perfect comedy thriller last weekend when they staged Dirty Sexy Money at Alliance Francaise. 2012-05-12T15:00:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/My+next+business+move+/-/1214/1404570/-/rj842cz/-/index.html A few weeks after we opened Chemi Chemi Classy Pub, it became crystal clear to economic analysts that I was the most important member of the venture. 2012-05-12T15:00:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Rendezvous+at+People+s+Park+/-/1214/1404464/-/710ie9/-/index.html “In this overcrowded world of ours, there are far too many people who never get to see a forest; who are never able at first hand to appreciate the subtle dynamics of nature...” 2012-05-12T15:00:38Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Asias+influence+in+my+life+/-/1214/1404460/-/nofbxu/-/index.html The links between Asia and Africa and South America have always been present but in our times they have been made invisible by the fact that Europe is still the central mediator of Afro-Asian-Latino discourse. 2012-05-12T15:00:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Oh+how+some+people+change++/-/1214/1404458/-/ckvq2u/-/index.html A month or so ago, a friend had lunch with a former high school classmate. 2012-05-12T15:00:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Time+to+stand+up+for+African+women+/-/1214/1404456/-/lnxj5h/-/index.html Every 90 seconds, somewhere in the world, a woman dies of a pregnancy-related complication. For them and their families there will be no Mothers Day ever. 2012-05-12T15:00:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Why+mothers+need+to+stop+playing+God+and+get+a+life+/-/1214/1404520/-/11frb62/-/index.html There's a Jewish saying, “God couldn’t be everywhere at once so He created mothers”. 2012-05-12T15:00:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Celebrity+mother+who+wears+the+worlds+longest+dreadlocks++/-/1214/1404454/-/94xl4dz/-/index.html It is said that a woman is her hair. Some plait it, some braid or weave it, and yet others shave it. But some like Asha Zulu Mandela lock it. 2012-05-12T15:00:18Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Marriage+blues+Be+prepared+/-/1214/1404518/-/13jsr9y/-/index.html Everyone’s sure they’re going to be blissfully happy once they’re married. But it’s rarely that simple. 2012-05-12T15:00:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/How+I+missed+exam+in+KU+/-/1214/1400212/-/11j2os4z/-/index.html I have just discovered I have a very close blood relative here at KU — my step-cousin-in-law. 2012-05-05T15:00:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Look+pretty+with+just+the+essentials+/-/1214/1400178/-/8a2f2oz/-/index.html Every so often, a woman finds herself in a position where she needs half her beauty pack. And I’m not talking about the morning after a chips funga moment. 2012-05-05T15:00:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+good+life+that+the+blackouts+can+help+us+power+up+/-/1214/1400210/-/62xsiq/-/index.html Sometimes life's blessings come packaged in the most unusual wrapping. 2012-05-05T15:00:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Getting+enough+sleep+is+a+science+/-/1214/1400208/-/bqj7kl/-/index.html No one really knows why sleep’s so important, but we certainly feel dreadful if we don’t get enough. 2012-05-05T15:00:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Kenyas+tiniest+tribe+fights++for+survival+/-/1214/1400174/-/64wpbw/-/index.html He tugs the boat to the shore of the greenish waters of Lake Turkana, undresses and dives into the waters believed to have the largest population of crocodiles in the world. 2012-05-05T15:00:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/-/1214/1400186/-/xtd4m1z/-/index.html Publishing as a trade has changed a great deal. 2012-05-05T15:00:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Theatre+for+peace+/-/1214/1400184/-/xsy63mz/-/index.html The students of Laikipia University College have decided to tackle the thorny issue of ethnic rivalries in the Rift Valley through theatre. 2012-05-05T15:00:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+land+Egyptians+coveted+/-/1214/1400182/-/9wcfvkz/-/index.html It was Garowe, in Puntland, and I was sitting on a veranda enjoying the cooler hour before the sun went down. There was this woman, slowly pacing up and down and seemingly studying her phone. 2012-05-05T15:00:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+trouble+with+roadside+treats+/-/1214/1400180/-/147rl2qz/-/index.html I know someone who has the courageous habit of sampling roadside snacks. 2012-05-05T15:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Couple+that+even+death+could+not+part+/-/1214/1400176/-/4j3iyd/-/index.html I always believed, as many of us do, that we in Kenya — indeed the whole of Sub-saharan Africa — live in a patriarchal society where a wife is always subservient to the husband, until I met Mr and Mrs Mathu. 2012-05-05T14:19:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Inside+the+Devils+Bedroom+/-/1214/1395772/-/142uaa4/-/index.html The allure of the rocks, the gorges, the caves, the hot water springs and the way nature has crafted them into a marvel keeps visitors to the Hell’s Gate gawking in awe. 2012-04-28T15:00:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Frank+lived+for+comics+/-/1214/1395768/-/c2xx7k/-/index.html Frank Odoi was probably Africa’s Hergé, Urdezo or the Marvel Comics team all rolled into one. 2012-04-28T15:00:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Visiting+day+on+campus+/-/1214/1395782/-/7n2rnpz/-/index.html Having attended Mwisho wa Lami Primary School and Mwisho wa Lami Mixed Day Secondary School, visiting day was something I never experienced. 2012-04-28T15:00:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/This+isnt+love+its+desperation+/-/1214/1395780/-/198v7hz/-/index.html “I can’t live, if living is without you!” It’s a truly wonderful song - and it sounds such a lovely thing to say. But have you ever felt like that about someone? That isn’t love. It’s desperation. 2012-04-28T15:00:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Rash+Hair+loss+What+your+body+is+telling+you+/-/1214/1395778/-/aooxvu/-/index.html Taking care of your skin and hair can be tricky. You think you have it under control and then your skin does a number on you, breaking out and getting oilier by the minute even though you could have sworn you have always had dry skin. 2012-04-28T15:00:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Nairobis+place+of+trees+/-/1214/1395776/-/1ryff5z/-/index.html They call it “the place of trees”. I like that. It’s the Nairobi Arboretum — the 65 acres, so near the city centre, with a collection of 350 species of both indigenous and exotic trees. 2012-04-28T15:00:05Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Running+with+the+world+beaters+/-/1214/1395766/-/i64bb5z/-/index.html When a British journalist went to interview Mary Keitany in her house in Iten, she had just broken the world half marathon record. 2012-04-28T15:00:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Who+will+our+roads+claim+next/-/1214/1395774/-/569jve/-/index.html Am I the only one, or have you also noticed the shocking number of people that have been dying on our roads lately? 2012-04-28T15:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/In+the+mud+of+politics+again+/-/1214/1391060/-/130tov7/-/index.html Kenyan politics is muddy. Very muddy. Once upon a time, a nationalist, Kiraitu Murungi, wrote a book and gave it the title In the Mud of Politics. 2012-04-21T15:00:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Nagging+only+makes+things+worse+/-/1214/1391062/-/secq9q/-/index.html Successful couples quickly learn that nagging makes everything worse. 2012-04-21T15:00:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Breast+lump+that+reunited+a+family+/-/1214/1391056/-/nros2v/-/index.html “Is there a history of breast disease in the family?” I asked. 2012-04-21T15:00:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/School+where+boys+are+turned+into+men+/-/1214/1391054/-/14lwklm/-/index.html Students in most boarding schools wake up at 5 am to study. But at St Mary’s Boys Secondary School in Nyeri, they wake up to undertake non-curricular activities. 2012-04-21T15:00:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Back+to+KU+with+business+ideas++/-/1214/1391066/-/t6y8fc/-/index.html Having missed last December’s session due to acute macro-economic and severe micro-economic fiscal conditions that I experienced at the time, everyone was happy to see me back at KU this session. 2012-04-21T15:00:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Our+past+does+not+determine+the+course+of+our+destiny+/-/1214/1391064/-/11urqe4z/-/index.html “In our family” one of my aunts once told me, “we all suffer from high blood pressure.” 2012-04-21T15:00:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Kenyan+homes+that+rival+Saudis+/-/1214/1391058/-/mp8ir3z/-/index.html I’m filled with disbelief and anger each time I read about the inhuman treatment of Kenyan women in Saudi Arabia. 2012-04-21T12:22:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/My+enemies+now+want+to+kill+me+/-/1214/1386382/-/lhvlksz/-/index.html As one of the most successful people socially, academically and financially in Mwisho wa Lami and its environs, I have always been aware that there are people out there who are envious of my achievements. 2012-04-14T15:00:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Losing+things+Youre+living+on+autopilot+/-/1214/1386380/-/l6r2ue/-/index.html Are you always losing stuff? Like your keys? Your phone? It sounds funny, but it’s not. You can’t find your purse, so you’re late for work. 2012-04-14T15:00:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+working+woman+must+set+her+own+pace+/-/1214/1386378/-/l6rnap/-/index.html There was a time, while in university, I could get away with sleeping a couple of hours at night and using the rest to study. 2012-04-14T15:00:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/No+such+thing+as+negative+ethnicity+/-/1214/1386376/-/125ogde/-/index.html Who said Kenya is culturally bankrupt? Who said that our artistes can’t produce content worth showing on local television stations? 2012-04-14T15:00:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+wonders+of+Nyahururu+/-/1214/1386374/-/xupewaz/-/index.html We had taken some visitors to the Nairobi National Park. We were high up on the edge of the forest at Impala Point and scanning the plains with binoculars — and I was showing off. 2012-04-14T15:00:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Would+you+tell+your+children+about+your+academic+failings/-/1214/1386372/-/kc9f1x/-/index.html It just occurred to me that I’m yet to come across a parent who “pulled the tail” in class. 2012-04-14T15:00:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Herdsboy+who+rose+to+become+CEO+of+regions+referral+hospital+/-/1214/1386370/-/11vp3c7/-/index.html Richard Leresian Lesiyampe’s life has taken him through an interesting, even adventurous journey. 2012-04-14T15:00:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+future+Mogadishu+/-/1214/1381612/-/e8lwr5/-/index.html She made me rather jealous, enthusing as she did about her last week’s trip to Mogadishu. 2012-04-07T19:00:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Finding+self+worth+beyond+your+job+description+/-/1214/1381620/-/6nl748/-/index.html Small talk has to be one of life’s necessary pains. Unfortunately, etiquette almost demands that you establish some rapport discussing inane things like the weather or traffic with people you don’t know. 2012-04-07T15:00:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Africa+really+is+a+land+of+broken+dreams+/-/1214/1381670/-/l470c8/-/index.html Living in Africa can be a daunting task, even for optimists. The irony is seldom overblown and the drama never overstretched. 2012-04-07T15:00:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Bingeing+often+leads+to+regrets+/-/1214/1381618/-/9tm27i/-/index.html There are lots of reasons why we drink alcohol. The taste, of course, and the way it helps us to unwind and be more sociable and talkative. 2012-04-07T15:00:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Its+dawning+on+me+that+there+are+upsides+to+growing+older+/-/1214/1381616/-/6q1ey4z/-/index.html I have a friend who is so secretive about her age that she would rather you plucked out her fingernails one by one than reveal exactly how old she is. It is that bad. 2012-04-07T15:00:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+art+of+manscaping+/-/1214/1381614/-/o6w14q/-/index.html In the beauty industry, there are some very quietly whispered affairs usually known as beauty secrets. When it concerns men, then it almost always starts like an underground movement. 2012-04-07T15:00:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/My+petition+to+Minister+Mutula+/-/1214/1381664/-/jpkrtrz/-/index.html I had vowed never to visit Hitler’s Den after he engineered our arrest last December, but I found myself at his place last Wednesday evening. 2012-04-07T15:00:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Julius+Malema+the+enfant+terrible+of+South+Africa+politics+/-/1214/1381608/-/musto4z/-/index.html Usually donning the uniform of the African National Congress Youth League, the flamboyant and outspoken Julius Sello Malema epitomises the militant and impatient new generation of emerging political power in South Africa. 2012-04-07T15:00:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/I+treated+the+wrong+patient++thrice+/-/1214/1381610/-/8ofdk6z/-/index.html Apropos of the Surgeon’s Diary of February 12 titled “Surprise and horrors in human bodies”, I discovered another interesting case in my clinical collection, which deserves a full column to do it justice. 2012-04-07T08:01:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+reality+of+African+fashion+/-/1214/1377498/-/5oyb18z/-/index.html Fickle, inconsistent and predictable are words that increasingly come to mind when I think of fashion. 2012-03-31T14:53:35Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Xtash+has+put+my+job+on+the+line+/-/1214/1377496/-/3irb8d/-/index.html When, in 2010, Sister Petronilla, the principal of St Theresa’s Girls, wrote to the vice-chancellor of Kenyatta University strongly recommending that I be compelled to repeat Teaching Practice, I thought that was the last I would hear from her 2012-03-31T14:53:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+flaws+that+get+you+dumped/-/1214/1377494/-/vuqrl5/-/index.html No matter how cool you are, you still have to meet certain standards or your girlfriends will always give up on you. 2012-03-31T14:53:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Treats+and+let+downs+at+Bomas+/-/1214/1377488/-/9vh4loz/-/index.html It must be over 20 years since I was at the Bomas. And that was when the cultural centre 2012-03-31T14:51:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/What+else+are+you+good+at/-/1214/1377482/-/v0aj37/-/index.html Last weekend, I met a young woman who made quite an impression on me. 2012-03-31T14:48:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Revealed++How+Michael+Jackson+almost+bought+the+Tsavo/-/1214/1377478/-/lx6w09z/-/index.html As the excitement of the recent Turkana oil discovery goes on, an older generation of Kenyans draws parallels to a similar find in the early 1990s. Unknown to many, the Ngamia I discovery is not the first reported case of Kenya having struck oil 2012-03-31T14:47:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Ingwe+almost+got+me+killed+/-/1214/1373464/-/coxjne/-/index.html Having been allowed three days off-duty to travel to Nairobi, I had planned to leave the city as soon as I sorted out my issues. 2012-03-25T16:08:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Why+the+abdomen+is+a+Pandoras+box+/-/1214/1372904/-/3f7ih9z/-/index.html The abdomen is called Pandora’s Box by surgeons, because one never knows what will come out of it when one opens it. 2012-03-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Chicken+nuggets+and+veggie+chips+/-/1214/1372924/-/13rcuww/-/index.html Roast chicken is a delicious treat for a weekend lunch. Indulge in these crumbed nuggets served with healthy assorted baked vegetable chips. 2012-03-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/-/1214/1372872/-/y93j01z/-/index.html The images hit you hard in the face. They virtually jump out of the concrete surfaces they are painted on. 2012-03-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+people+who+drive+like+hell+will+surely+get+there++/-/1214/1372892/-/mtcimrz/-/index.html There is a saying that “people who drive like hell will surely get there”. Fierce driving will ultimately hurt you – definitely in the wallet 2012-03-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Intimacy+keeps+the+romance+/-/1214/1372894/-/ewfijf/-/index.html We live in strange times. On the one hand, it’s more likely than ever before that your wife will be unfaithful. Mobile phones make everything easier 2012-03-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+changing+face+of+Karen+/-/1214/1372880/-/15lxtx0z/-/index.html Despite its changes over the years, I’ve never quite come to terms with Karen. Right from my early days in the late 60s, I have seen it, with its five-acre plots and cosy watering holes 2012-03-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Stay+fresh+in+the+heat+/-/1214/1372888/-/qq0dli/-/index.html The most noticeable thing about this weather has to be scent. Heat has a way of penetrating your skin and altering your body odour. 2012-03-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/-/1214/1368242/-/y9l1qpz/-/index.html When Amos Malaba talks about his younger sister, there is more than a tinge of admiration in his voice. 2012-03-17T13:00:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/How+I+ended+up+with+education+insurance+policy+for+Branton+/-/1214/1368254/-/exnkvo/-/index.html As you know, for some time now, I have been having some inexplicable deductions on my payslip – something that has negatively affected my fiscal macro-economic status. 2012-03-17T13:00:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Change+your+spouses+bad+habits+/-/1214/1368252/-/119jbds/-/index.html It’s great being married. But maybe your husband’s also forgetful, lazy, bad tempered and stays out late. Or your wife talks far too much. 2012-03-17T13:00:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Our+fear+is+that+were+powerful+beyond+measure+/-/1214/1368250/-/mcyhx9z/-/index.html The latest addition to our dog loving family is a 6 month old puppy we called Radi, Kiswahili for thunder and lightning. 2012-03-17T13:00:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Origin+and+customs+of+the+Kikuyu+/-/1214/1368248/-/2t31elz/-/index.html Following the arrival of the white man, many Kenyan communities abandoned their cultures and embraced western ways. 2012-03-17T13:00:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Reflections+on+Nairobis+Eastlands+/-/1214/1368246/-/12iv4mez/-/index.html “Where is Nairobi’s Eastlands?” I asked my colleagues in the office. They all said the same thing: the area to the east of Tom Mboya Street – the poorer side of the city, to distinguish it from the more affluent Westlands. 2012-03-17T13:00:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Weighty+lessons+from+the+track+/-/1214/1368244/-/lkvidp/-/index.html One of the newspaper sections I never fail to read is the letters page. Kenyans have some pretty interesting observations about the goings-on in our country. 2012-03-17T13:00:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/How+I+ate+cement+in+Cameroon+/-/1214/1363066/-/tp6ttz/-/index.html There is a popular legend among the Kikuyu to the effect that the people of Meru once ate cement 2012-03-10T18:07:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Scramble+is+still+on+for+Kenyan+historical+space+/-/1214/1363064/-/xybkpcz/-/index.html This year promises to be a fortunate one for students of Kenyan history. 2012-03-10T18:07:34Z