/Features/saturday/-/1216/1216/-/gphub1/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Paradise-off-the-beaten-path/-/1216/1733596/-/vg20te/-/index.html Whizzing past the Elangata Wuas plains en route from Nairobi to Namanga, one catches a glimpse of the sacred Maasai mountain, Ol Donyo Lengai, and the Noonkujit swamp, where herds of elephant cross over from Tanzania to browse on the lush grass. 2013-10-29T23:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Your-fitness-is-in-your-hands-/-/1216/1883210/-/awgvqez/-/index.html “Do you ever get the feeling that people ask for advice so that they can have somebody to blame when they fail?” asked a fitness enthusiast who also sells DVD workouts. 2013-06-14T15:37:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Big-Cat-Diary-live-at-the-Mara-/-/1216/1883208/-/dktdypz/-/index.html The sheen of the rising sun spreads over the long grasses of the great savannah plains. 2013-06-14T15:35:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Are-you-ready-to-change/-/1216/1883202/-/w427ab/-/index.html Today I want to address you, that person who is employed and is thinking about going into business, and you, that person who may have just left employment to start a business. 2013-06-14T15:33:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Your-boyfriend-is-a-loser/-/1216/1883146/-/pmj8wd/-/index.html Hopefully she will wake up and realise that she has a vital decision to make before she ends up in a loveless, mean, and sad marriage with children and no way out.” 2013-06-14T14:43:46Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Is-your-vitamin-D-running-low/-/1216/1883144/-/6pasay/-/index.html I had not had many lab tests up until I got pregnant, and to be honest, I did not even know my blood type. 2013-06-14T14:42:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Out-of-town-romps-/-/1216/1883140/-/oj41k8z/-/index.html I was at the chama meeting last Saturday and this time round we were discussing sex at conferences, workshops, and other sleep-in hotel meetings away from home. 2013-06-14T14:41:38Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Exhausted-mummy-sins--/-/1216/1883138/-/7vhaaxz/-/index.html While motherhood can be an utterly fulfilling experience, it is also demanding. 2013-06-14T14:40:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/She-is-growing-fatter-by-the-day-and-wont-give-in/-/1216/1883136/-/2712vgz/-/index.html I am in a relationship with a woman who is growing bigger by the day. I am afraid she will soon suffer from obesity or diabetes. My other worry is that she has refused to have sex with me. Please guide me on what to do. 2013-06-14T14:38:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Can-I-save-my-sister-from-abuse/-/1216/1883134/-/ky3od9/-/index.html I live with my sister and her two-month-old baby. 2013-06-14T14:36:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-greatest-mystery-of-all-/-/1216/1883132/-/13yk20tz/-/index.html I have this mentor. He is a corporate hack and a gentleman of depthless mystery. 2013-06-14T14:32:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Seeking-a-promotion-ladies-Quit-smiling--/-/1216/1883130/-/71hxxd/-/index.html You may be harming your career by giving a cheerful impression. 2013-06-14T14:30:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Tense-conversations--/-/1216/1883128/-/36rc5h/-/index.html You told him! You told him!” Sheila screams down the phone line. I have to hold it away from my ear otherwise my eardrum will explode. 2013-06-14T14:29:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/In-it-to-plan-it-/-/1216/1883126/-/pta7p2z/-/index.html I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs. My mother runs her own business, and my late father was a self-made man who started from scratch with no university degree. 2013-06-14T14:28:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-seven-year-itch-fact-or-fiction/-/1216/1883124/-/j76c2sz/-/index.html Bancy Njau-Murimi celebrated her marriage anniversary early last month. 2013-06-14T14:27:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/A-pill-against-femmes-fatales-/-/1216/1883122/-/h52jms/-/index.html Imagine a pill that could protect men from feminine wiles. 2013-06-14T14:26:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Here-comes-the-gown/-/1216/1874694/-/15h8n15z/-/index.html Their wedding days may be long past, but the women that we speak to this week have kept their dresses as reminders of one of the most important days of their lives. What memories do the dresses evoke? 2013-06-07T02:49:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/What-to-do-if-your-husband-refuses-to-change/-/1216/1874690/-/cc6hki/-/index.html I have been married for 16 years and I am blessed with three daughters. All along, my husband has been a workaholic who is often away on work-related trips. His second priority after work is his friends. 2013-06-07T02:41:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Spa-treatments-for-him/-/1216/1874686/-/e30d28z/-/index.html The word spa has a way of intimidating men. 2013-06-07T02:22:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Battle-of-the-burgers/-/1216/1874682/-/124ppot/-/index.html If you are vegetarian, don’t go to Steers or Big Square 2013-06-07T02:14:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/In-Hells-Kitchen/-/1216/1874678/-/1j1a53/-/index.html It is mid-morning in Dakatcha Woodland, a forest deep in the heartland of Malindi, and Albert Baya, a guide from Arabuko-Sokoke forest is driving us to Nyari Bore, a place where the earth’s surface is eroded into the most breathtaking depression you’ll ever see. 2013-06-07T01:49:39Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/What-drives-your-money-behaviour/-/1216/1874676/-/87mm22/-/index.html Are you social? Trying to make new friends? Hoping to ease depression? All these things have a bearing on how you spend your money. 2013-06-07T01:31:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/How-to-outwit-nasty-colleagues/-/1216/1874664/-/ls7bnv/-/index.html Every workplace has a mix of annoying personalities that may dampen your productivity and make your day a pain. Joan Thatiah explores how to deal with them effectively. 2013-06-07T00:52:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Cohabiting-could-ruin-your-marriage/-/1216/1874660/-/67ddlj/-/index.html During dating, many couples are on their best behaviour, with their true colours well hidden out of sight. For this reason, there are couples who swear by cohabiting before marriage as the only way to figure out if their partners are right for them. 2013-06-07T00:45:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Nasty-piece-of-work-/-/1216/1874656/-/7eyfxy/-/index.html Jason pulls himself forward, hips first, from the doorjamb, and then kicks the door of my office shut with a backward flick of his foot in one smooth move. A cocky smile plays on his lips as he walks towards me. 2013-06-07T00:31:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Letting-go-off-the-hurt/-/1216/1874652/-/130t6riz/-/index.html I was greatly touched after reading the stories of the four women who shared painful experiences from their pasts. 2013-06-07T00:21:05Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Camera-lights-and-Pigwood/-/1216/1874646/-/50mfrvz/-/index.html I was passing by a farm gate the other day when I saw a farmer holding a very well-groomed pig on a leash. “Is that pig for sale?” I asked. 2013-06-07T00:09:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Love-in-a-gilded-cage/-/1216/1874642/-/e75934z/-/index.html Affairs between young women and men two or three times their ages are increasing – but at what cost to the women? 2013-06-06T23:19:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Teach-your-infant-to-communicate/-/1216/1874638/-/14glh5cz/-/index.html For babies who cannot speak, crying is usually the mode of communication between them and their care giver. 2013-06-06T23:10:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-best-places-for-the-perfect-break-up/-/1216/1874634/-/o9qb74z/-/index.html Sometimes it is just not working, but breaking up is never easy. If you have finally mustered the courage, here are some perfect places to end it without the usual drama 2013-06-06T22:52:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/With-cleaning-rags-to-riches/-/1216/1874630/-/119kcd5z/-/index.html “After my ‘A’ levels at Matuga Girls in 1979, I had very high hopes of pursuing a career in drama to write and stage plays. 2013-06-06T22:42:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/LOVE-IS-ONLY-A-PHONE-CALL-AWAY-/-/1216/1867922/-/12fn4tz/-/index.html Paloma, a 34-year-old, HIV-positive lady from the Rift Valley seeks a serious relationship with a god-fearing, employed man or businessman of the same status, aged 36-45years. 2013-05-31T00:44:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Counterfeit-wealth/-/1216/1867920/-/s2932cz/-/index.html I commend Waceke Nduati Omanga for the good work she is doing informing us about how to be wealthy 2013-05-31T00:32:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/You-are-what-you-eat/-/1216/1867916/-/roo1diz/-/index.html I recently read a health book where the statement “You are what you eat” triggered some scary thoughts. 2013-05-31T00:28:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/A-sighting-at-last/-/1216/1867912/-/d8o9uxz/-/index.html Rupi Mangat scours a woodland for an elusive bird and just when she is about to give up, she finds it. 2013-05-31T00:20:34Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/How-to-use-a-loan-as-an-investment-tool/-/1216/1867908/-/rx0ej/-/index.html Stop losing money on interest by looking at loans from a different perspective 2013-05-31T00:14:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/What-do-I-do-with-this-deadbeat-husband/-/1216/1867904/-/9jf1q7/-/index.html Maurice and readers counsel a woman who is fed up with her jobless, abusive and drunken husband 2013-05-31T00:06:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/To-the-women-who-love-whisky/-/1216/1867900/-/9urx0dz/-/index.html Greta Garbo, the actress of yore, made history in the 1930s movie Anna Christie. This happened when she uttered the infamous words, “Gimme a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don’t be stingy, baby.” 2013-05-30T23:57:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Let-your-food-be-your-medicine/-/1216/1867896/-/tqq7bmz/-/index.html Clinical nutritionist Sona Parmar Mukherjee says that perhaps what you need is not more pills but a change of diet 2013-05-30T23:52:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-stuff-of-nightmares--/-/1216/1867892/-/11iukg9/-/index.html A collection of stories from women who have lived through some of the worst dates ever 2013-05-30T23:22:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/When-a-new-baby-kills-your-sex-life/-/1216/1867888/-/filmj/-/index.html Sometimes the last thing a new mother wants to do is get intimate with her partner. 2013-05-30T23:14:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Now-that-there-is-a-bump-in-the-room-/-/1216/1867884/-/228yqxz/-/index.html Twenty-seven-year-old Jane recently found out that she is pregnant. She and her husband have a great sex life and the news makes her desire her husband even more. 2013-05-30T23:04:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/From-stockbroking-to-fashion-design/-/1216/1867880/-/r21749z/-/index.html Monica Kanari started out in the world of finance, but quit to do what she was passionate about — make clothes. 2013-05-30T22:56:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Letting-go-of-the-anger/-/1216/1867876/-/11il42r/-/index.html You are no longer my boss but what you did is unacceptable. Your boss, the director, harassed me two years ago. 2013-05-30T22:33:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/FEEDBACK/-/1216/1861354/-/bl1prn/-/index.html Are vaccines making your child mentally ill? 2013-05-24T02:38:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/-/1216/1861338/-/12bjo56/-/index.html Is it normal to be in your twenties and still a virgin? 2013-05-24T01:11:34Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Make-a-grand-entrance/-/1216/1861334/-/ak5t7/-/index.html Let your doorways say ‘welcome’ for you. By Tricia Wanjala 2013-05-24T01:05:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/What-counterfeit-wealth-really-looks-like/-/1216/1861332/-/je5wupz/-/index.html Just because you look rich doesn’t mean you are rich. Often, the people with the biggest cars and houses are the ones living in poverty. By Waceke Nduati Omanga 2013-05-24T01:01:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/How-much-do-you-owe-your-parent/-/1216/1861326/-/hgausez/-/index.html Is it possible for a parent to take financial advantage of their child? By Joan Thatiah 2013-05-24T00:46:51Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Eat-less-to-gain-more-nutrients-during-pregnancy/-/1216/1861318/-/12d94hy/-/index.html Clinical Nutritionist Sona Parmar Mukherjee says that nutrient-dense foods go a long way to nourishing the foetus. 2013-05-24T00:29:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Why-despise-Gods-gift-to-marriage/-/1216/1861314/-/ufmc2ez/-/index.html When we criminalise sex in conversations with our children, we do their future intimate relations more harm than we realise. 2013-05-24T00:18:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Understanding-what-your-babys-cries-mean/-/1216/1861310/-/ti20b5z/-/index.html Crying is the language that babies use to express themselves. Kinuthia Mburu interprets what your baby’s piercing shrieks mean. 2013-05-24T00:14:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Delightful-Dakatcha-Woodland/-/1216/1861306/-/6xcqo6z/-/index.html Little-known forest in the backwaters of Malindi enchants Rupi Mangat 2013-05-24T00:07:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/-/1216/1861302/-/12bjo2c/-/index.html Some evenings ago I spent a few hours on a luxury cruise boat off the coast of Durban. As the sun dipped behind the skyscrapers on the horizon, we inched farther into sea, putting away glasses of champagne as the braai sent smoke into the crisp evening air. 2013-05-24T00:01:14Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/An-offensive-suggestion/-/1216/1861298/-/on9ghn/-/index.html “I am sorry about my outburst earlier on today,” Chris is saying on the phone. It’s nearly lunch time and I am just about to head out when he calls me to say this. I can only imagine how embarrassed he must be. 2013-05-23T23:55:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Life-lessons-the-hard-way/-/1216/1861294/-/gm9mly/-/index.html Every wise parent gets their child ready to face the inevitable challenges of life, but in these days of increasing prosperity this is much harder to do than it used to be. 2013-05-23T23:47:34Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/-/1216/1861290/-/12bjnhs/-/index.html The hurried implementation of the National Social Security Act is antagonising mothers and giving house helps job insecurity. Why is this so? Joan Thatiah and Kinuthia Mburu find out. 2013-05-23T23:36:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/What-our-MPs-financial-demands-say-about-you/-/1216/1855226/-/gqccap/-/index.html The debate on MPs salaries has been going on for quite a while now 2013-05-17T01:22:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Decor-for-the-colourphobe/-/1216/1855222/-/c2xt55z/-/index.html Many of us can be accused of falling into one of two extremes when decorating – we either go crazy with colour or avoid it entirely. 2013-05-17T01:17:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Psoriasis-free-skin-is-possible/-/1216/1855220/-/9eyyyz/-/index.html If you suffer from psoriasis, there will come a point when your dermatologist says that there isn’t much more he can do. 2013-05-17T01:14:09Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Slipping-standards-at-coffee-house/-/1216/1855216/-/fgkdxn/-/index.html Every Java you go to will have pretty much the same food done in more or less the same style (if you don’t count the less varied menus at branches like Java Mama Ngina), so this review is more about the service and consistency and less about food. 2013-05-17T01:05:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Biking-in-the-Rift-Valley/-/1216/1855206/-/o1ng17z/-/index.html Adnan Khashoggi, arms dealer and businessman, put together a most extensive art collection that is now displayed at the Ol Pejeta House. 2013-05-17T00:13:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Is-technology-taking-a-toll-on-your-relationship/-/1216/1855202/-/dhgqcdz/-/index.html I was back to chama last weekend for the monthly meeting. For those reading this for the first time, I am the only male member of a woman’s welfare group, popularly known as chama. 2013-05-17T00:07:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Keeping-secrets-from-your-child/-/1216/1855198/-/109dhvo/-/index.html Marion was 12 when her father died. She had been at boarding school, so when her mother and older brothers told her it was malaria that killed him, she had no reason to doubt them. She only found out that her father had indeed died of cancer months later through a slip-up from one of her aunties. 2013-05-17T00:02:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Smiling-all-the-way-to-the-bank/-/1216/1855192/-/je8i5oz/-/index.html “I was born in 1973 in Nyeri County, the first born in a family of six sisters, and I got married in 1995 to the man I believed was of my dreams, in a Kiambu County church. He was a tout and I was unemployed, and our union was all chemistry and no wisdom. 2013-05-16T23:42:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Why-men-and-women-can-never-be-just-friends/-/1216/1855188/-/25psak/-/index.html Women have all along been encouraged to have a platonic male friend tucked somewhere. 2013-05-16T23:35:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Just-another-manic-Monday/-/1216/1855186/-/rtwcybz/-/index.html “It was the oddest thing. First she blew warm, then she blew very, very cold, then she blew hot, then she went icy. 2013-05-16T23:31:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Are-vaccines-making-your-child-mentally-ill/-/1216/1855180/-/mh1exj/-/index.html Autistic Spectrum Disorder was a little-known disease a few decades ago, affecting only a minute percentage of the global population. 2013-05-16T23:21:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/I-help-rejected-kids/-/1216/1855178/-/msh6et/-/index.html Pooja Panesar is an applied behavior analyst, founder and director at Kaizora Consultants 2013-05-16T23:15:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Digital-inclusion/-/1216/1855174/-/da71fbz/-/index.html Like women, computers have come a long way. 2013-05-16T23:07:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/-/1216/1855172/-/12b0v20/-/index.html It was interesting to read last weekend’s Mantalk in which Jackson Biko talked about guys who are languishing in the friend zone. 2013-05-16T23:00:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/From-the-editor/-/1216/1855170/-/hlfolkz/-/index.html I was sitting in one of Nairobi’s standstill traffic jams quite recently, on one of those obscenely hot afternoons, when a nicely folded piece of paper came fluttering down from the heavens over the windscreen of my car. 2013-05-16T22:54:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/An-experience-to-savour/-/1216/1847930/-/qm0aj3/-/index.html Hemingways Collection recently opened up a branch in Nairobi. It is located in a quiet nook in Karen, and it’s a peaceful, comfortable place that makes you feel as if you have travelled outside the hectic city. 2013-05-10T01:42:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/How-to-water-your-desert/-/1216/1847926/-/m7x1wx/-/index.html I met Jane a year ago at my favourite restaurant. I had just walked in to have a quick bite. 2013-05-10T01:31:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Kick-start-your-health-with-the-right-diet/-/1216/1847922/-/15eum7k/-/index.html When Charlene came to see me, she thought that there was something very wrong with her 2013-05-10T01:24:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/How-to-love-an-introvert/-/1216/1847918/-/uds5b5z/-/index.html Nadya refers to herself as a recovering introvert, perhaps understandably so 2013-05-10T01:19:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Vintage-flair/-/1216/1847914/-/gmr517/-/index.html Whether it is that delicate tea pot from your grandmother, that silver butter-knife with the ivory handle, 2013-05-10T00:51:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/All-you-need-to-know-about-Treasury-bills/-/1216/1847910/-/bej70x/-/index.html Following the article I did a couple of weeks back on Treasury bonds, many of you have written to me also asking inquiring about Treasury Bills, 2013-05-10T00:45:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Decadence-at-Sweetwaters/-/1216/1847906/-/dfad77/-/index.html The map of Africa shows the Equator cutting across Kenya at precisely the spot where we are standing, at Ol Pejeta Conservancy 2013-05-10T00:37:39Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Raise-your-twins-apart/-/1216/1847902/-/26llny/-/index.html When Patricia Obuya found out she was pregnant with twin girls, she was quite happy that pregnancy was a road she wouldn’t walk down again 2013-05-10T00:23:35Z