/Features/saturday/-/1216/1216/-/format/xhtml/-/1rxeghz/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Paradise-off-the-beaten-path/-/1216/1733596/-/format/xhtml/-/fuqiev/-/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/What-our-MPs-financial-demands-say-about-you/-/1216/1855226/-/format/xhtml/-/tbgf2c/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/dfcicaz/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/nrn0smz/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/g50s90z/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/14hi66/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/blefsmz/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/29vj0e/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/n2gcyr/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/sql5u4/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/ue2ufwz/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/e1ta8e/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/kpdlde/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/1476lugz/-/index.html Like women, computers have come a long way. 2013-05-16T23:07:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/-/1216/1855172/-/format/xhtml/-/e9jmo9z/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/hicgcfz/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/wqk1elz/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/pt0nilz/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/11337bd/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/js1bni/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/yyk7v6/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/fofge0z/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/xchjhv/-/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/-/format/xhtml/-/12wjc6n/-/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 http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Expert-advice/-/1216/1847900/-/format/xhtml/-/ryej2bz/-/index.html Forgive, forget and move on 2013-05-10T00:19:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/In-the-friend-zone/-/1216/1847898/-/format/xhtml/-/jff9d2/-/index.html There is a dark, wet, seedy hole where women throw men who do not make the cut. 2013-05-10T00:10:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Jewellery-from-the-heart/-/1216/1847894/-/format/xhtml/-/uphrh1/-/index.html Jewellery designer Adéle Dejak studied law to please her father, but always knew she would rather be an artiste. She tells Tricia Wanjala her story. 2013-05-09T23:37:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Women-are-biologically-wired-to-overeat-/-/1216/1847890/-/format/xhtml/-/14yfv0fz/-/index.html Can’t fight your sweet tooth? Quit beating yourself up about it and look to your brain to understand why you cannot resist the temptation. 2013-05-09T23:31:09Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Sheila-the-fake/-/1216/1847886/-/format/xhtml/-/rnwmjo/-/index.html Sheila shakes her long mane of hair as I lean forward, paying all the attention I have in me; things are finally getting interesting now that she is opening up about her relationship with Jason. 2013-05-09T23:21:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Lessons-from-my-mother/-/1216/1847882/-/format/xhtml/-/6ilcdqz/-/index.html Linda Muthama, 29, musician, actress, performing artiste and music educator 2013-05-09T23:15:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Lessons-from-my-mother/-/1216/1847878/-/format/xhtml/-/8tl9sez/-/index.html Wahu Kagwi, award winning singer/songwriter. Wahu is a mother of one daughter aged six and a half 2013-05-09T23:11:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Lessons-from-my-mother/-/1216/1847874/-/format/xhtml/-/u18pjo/-/index.html Habida Moloney, singer, actress, businesswoman 2013-05-09T23:04:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Lessons-from-my-mother/-/1216/1847870/-/format/xhtml/-/cu0esjz/-/index.html Chichi Seii, performing artiste, producer and set designer. Chichi is a mother of one girl aged five years, five months 2013-05-09T22:55:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Lessons-from-my-mother/-/1216/1847866/-/format/xhtml/-/f60c87z/-/index.html Julie and her husband, Anthony, have had five children. Their oldest is 12 going on 13 and the youngest is three. 2013-05-09T22:40:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-secret-is-in-the-granary/-/1216/1840202/-/format/xhtml/-/14s8p91z/-/index.html Linda Kithuku may be a married mother-of-two, but she is unwilling to trade the excitement of running her own business for the security of employment. 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Why-your-investment-group-is-stuck/-/1216/1840190/-/format/xhtml/-/2q5syb/-/index.html Many people are members of investment groups, or chamas. These groups are often started out with very solid intentions, i.e to make money or create wealth. 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/To-all-the-mothers-who-have-been-and-gone/-/1216/1840200/-/format/xhtml/-/oxuiaw/-/index.html When mothers die, everything dies with them. Nothing — inanimate or animate — has the capacity to bear the departure of mothers. 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-natural-way-to-bring-back-intimacy/-/1216/1840198/-/format/xhtml/-/4luuxpz/-/index.html John was brought to hospital at 2am by his wife. He was suffering severe tummy pain. “It is my fault doctor,” she explained, weeping. “I will never forgive myself if he dies.” 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/How-to-break-up-with-your-friend-amicably/-/1216/1840188/-/format/xhtml/-/v88x0sz/-/index.html During my early 20s, my friendships defined who I was,” 27-year-old Mwihaki Kihunya recalls. Like many young women, Mwihaki and her friends swore eternal friendship to each other 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-culprits-in-persistent-yeast-infection/-/1216/1840194/-/format/xhtml/-/hq5sqv/-/index.html Growing up, even though all my friends seemed to know what they wanted to be, I had absolutely no idea. 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Tough-kid-questions/-/1216/1840196/-/format/xhtml/-/15a8rml/-/index.html There are big, sometimes heartbreaking questions that a mother raising children of an uninvolved dad should expect. 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/In-the-land-of-the-man-eaters/-/1216/1840186/-/format/xhtml/-/lvf0j/-/index.html I am setting up my camera to capture some sunrise moments when the air is filled with a loud roar. 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/We-donated-our-eggs-for-money/-/1216/1840184/-/format/xhtml/-/yxkwx4z/-/index.html It has been four years since Wangui* first donated her eggs. She did not need them and she wanted the cash incentive given to women who donate eggs. 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Eatery-leaves-bad-taste/-/1216/1840192/-/format/xhtml/-/14e5wqdz/-/index.html Just off Ngong’ Road lies a restaurant that I had the unfortunate lack of forewarning to visit. Masrawy Egyptian Restaurant is one of those houses turned into a restaurant 2013-05-02T21:49:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/A-safe-place-for-wildlife-/-/1216/1758712/-/format/xhtml/-/8wtr87z/-/index.html Two male Tommies are caught in combat, horns locked, swivelling around in circles, sometimes with such ferocity that all we see are hind legs thrown into the air amid the dust. 2013-04-26T02:58:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-signs-are-in-the-keys-/-/1216/1758710/-/format/xhtml/-/o3x0qt/-/index.html Relationships are based on assumptions, grey areas, and reading of signs. “Look, I assumed you would tell me that you were in jail at some point.” 2013-04-26T02:52:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Consider-the-ants-wise-ways-/-/1216/1758708/-/format/xhtml/-/130xujk/-/index.html Ants can teach you a lot about money. Despite not having leaders they accomplish fairly complex tasks such as food storage, garbage collection, nest preparation, security, and even going to war. 2013-04-26T02:45:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-art-of-confrontation-/-/1216/1758706/-/format/xhtml/-/w0wwln/-/index.html For as long as there have been people, there has been conflict. 2013-04-26T02:41:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/High-tech-mama-mboga/-/1216/1758702/-/format/xhtml/-/j1trgc/-/index.html Fresh & More Kenya is an online mama mboga. We deliver fresh fruit and vegetables right to our customers’ doorstep. 2013-04-26T02:31:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Lunch-with-Sheila/-/1216/1758700/-/format/xhtml/-/uaukv2z/-/index.html On my way home, I cannot help but ponder Jo’s problem. 2013-04-26T02:28:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Ways-to-keep-your-relationship-fresh-and-alive/-/1216/1758698/-/format/xhtml/-/101wx40/-/index.html Falling in love is the easy part of a relationship. With time, this initial thrill and strong feelings almost always begin to wane. It takes effort to keep boredom at bay in a long-term relationship. 2013-04-26T02:23:38Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/-/1216/1758692/-/format/xhtml/-/s51uikz/-/index.html When John Denver crooned his folk song, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? he could not have known what would happen in Nairobi County. 2013-04-26T02:16:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/How-to-lose-weight-in-28-days/-/1216/1758688/-/format/xhtml/-/ac5m7a/-/index.html Begin the programme with two days of relaxing your system with “good” carbohydrate vegetables. 2013-04-26T02:01:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Why-you-are-always-broke/-/1216/1753012/-/format/xhtml/-/y7el5mz/-/index.html If you read personal finance columns regularly, you will have noticed by now that budgeting is one of the cardinal rules of financial success. 2013-04-19T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-hate-that-dares-not-speak/-/1216/1753014/-/format/xhtml/-/xhclbfz/-/index.html We all know what a woman with daddy issues looks like: She is promiscuous. She dates men who are way older than she is. 2013-04-19T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Across-the-grasslands/-/1216/1753010/-/format/xhtml/-/4d3ne1z/-/index.html The last record of Sharpe’s Longclaw in Londiani was in 1901 by British ornithologist, Sir Frederick Jackson, who served as the East Africa Protectorate’s Lieutenant-Governor from 1907 to 1911. We are continuing our search for the bird 112 years later. 2013-04-19T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-silver-linings-rabbits/-/1216/1746168/-/format/xhtml/-/chs06x/-/index.html When Lucy Wanjiku Ndung’u’s time to start her maternity leave came in 2002, her employer fired her. She thought getting pregnant was a normal biological thing and that her employer would to share her joy. 2013-04-12T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Help-for-Kenyas-modern-day-slaves/-/1216/1746158/-/format/xhtml/-/13u0gvvz/-/index.html There is loud wailing at 2am in an estate in Lang’ata. The cries wake up a few neighbours, some of whom drag themselves out of bed to peep through their windows. 2013-04-12T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Breastfeeding-When-and-how-should-you-stop-/-/1216/1746166/-/format/xhtml/-/uynh1w/-/index.html Stopping breastfeeding sounds as simple as just stopping, right? Wrong. 2013-04-12T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Unnecessary-supplements-sabotage-your-health/-/1216/1746174/-/format/xhtml/-/2to8noz/-/index.html With the vast availability of nutritional supplements these days, you’d be forgiven for thinking and they were fairly harmless, health-giving pills. And yes they are – assuming you’re taking the right thing. 2013-04-12T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Tranquility-in-the-heart-of-the-Mau/-/1216/1746160/-/format/xhtml/-/aw70qo/-/index.html The beautiful gold light of the morning sun warms the plains of Olokurto and drives away the mist and the cold. 2013-04-12T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Put-on-your-fighting-gloves/-/1216/1746170/-/format/xhtml/-/kap8o3z/-/index.html Rule number 163 in the Handbook for Men states: A man must let women fight their own battles. 2013-04-12T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-rise-of-the-male-relationship-guru/-/1216/1746164/-/format/xhtml/-/9xsyhx/-/index.html Every girl in Nairobi proclaims she is not the ‘trip-trip’ girl; a reference from the movie Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, in which Harvey asks women to insist that men open the car door for them instead of simply flicking an electronic button. 2013-04-12T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Patient-heal-thyself/-/1216/1746172/-/format/xhtml/-/1191rqyz/-/index.html I got an anonymous call this week which left me wondering how the issue of abortion should be handled by the medical profession. 2013-04-12T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Pay-yourself-to-grow-your-business/-/1216/1746162/-/format/xhtml/-/5mrx82/-/index.html Susan started a tailoring business three years ago and recently sought my advice. 2013-04-12T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/From-a-song-in-the-heart--to-a-successful-card-business/-/1216/1739886/-/format/xhtml/-/t8h8fv/-/index.html If anyone had asked me 10 years ago if it was possible to succeed in doing what I do for a living, I would have said “hell no!” 2013-04-05T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Nurture-their-talent/-/1216/1739888/-/format/xhtml/-/yfiykl/-/index.html The 2010 edition of America’s Got Talent had an interesting finalist: 12-year-old Jackie Evancho. She surpassed expectation and awed the world with her every performance. 2013-04-05T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-glittery-lifestyle-trap/-/1216/1739882/-/format/xhtml/-/ucet4i/-/index.html Sam*, works at a multi-national bank as a relationship manager, handling corporate clients in the manufacturing sector. 2013-04-05T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Purge-your-colon-natures-way/-/1216/1739894/-/format/xhtml/-/6123hbz/-/index.html Colon cleansing seems to be all the rage these days; every publication you open extols its benefits, a number of your friends are raving about treatments they have had, and a search on the Internet brings up a myriad of products. 2013-04-05T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Like-a-moth-to-the-flame/-/1216/1739884/-/format/xhtml/-/f2k642/-/index.html Did you watch Kethi Kilonzo speak during the Supreme Court election petition hearings last week but one? No? 2013-04-05T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/The-allure-of-the-help/-/1216/1739892/-/format/xhtml/-/8dduo5z/-/index.html For the working woman desperately in need of an extra pair of hands to help keep things in order at home, house girls come as a godsend. 2013-04-05T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/A-crisis-averted/-/1216/1739890/-/format/xhtml/-/aotyo4z/-/index.html When Naomi came to see me, she was worried. Her wedding was in two weeks and she desperately needed help. 2013-04-05T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Adventure-in-Mau-Narok/-/1216/1739880/-/format/xhtml/-/7fainz/-/index.html Being on unfamiliar territory is like opening a new book; every day is an exciting chapter to explore. 2013-04-05T22:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/A-risky--business/-/1216/1739878/-/format/xhtml/-/11nglkoz/-/index.html In mitigation, I can say that I never meant all this to happen. I entered into it the way I now know so many of us do with the unexpected: in oblivious, or at least blinkered, innocence. 2013-04-05T02:59:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Making-your-child-responsible/-/1216/1733608/-/format/xhtml/-/vwfgsa/-/index.html Raising a child is one of the most daunting, yet fulfilling, frustrating, yet rewarding jobs. This is especially so when it is time to train a child in a way that ensures that he grows into a responsible adult. 2013-03-29T23:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Lets-talk--about-condoms--/-/1216/1733612/-/format/xhtml/-/ewnx2cz/-/index.html Fussing has become Kenyans greatest pastime. We fuss on the roads, fuss in queues, fuss at politicians (deservedly), fuss at our spouses, fuss at red-plate cars (oh, so deservedly)… we fuss endlessly. 2013-03-29T23:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Exercise-to-keep-your-bones-healthy/-/1216/1733606/-/format/xhtml/-/2molftz/-/index.html Want to lose weight in minutes? Liposuction is one way, but that might cost more than you can afford. 2013-03-29T23:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/A-passion-for-network-marketing/-/1216/1733614/-/format/xhtml/-/mujefbz/-/index.html I used to work at Fairmont the Norfolk, where I was in charge of group and conference reservations for five hotels.  2013-03-29T23:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Where-should-we-draw-the-line-on-Frankenstein-foods/-/1216/1733604/-/format/xhtml/-/xwm43yz/-/index.html At a recent, mostly vegetarian, dinner party, as I started talking about genetically modified (GM) foods, most people had trouble believing what I was saying: 2013-03-29T23:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/saturday/Drunken-drama-queen/-/1216/1733616/-/format/xhtml/-/hvt3moz/-/index.html “Another one!” Louise shouts, slamming her tequila shot glass on the table in front of her. She has just had her second shot in as many hours, and while I am one step ahead, the effects of the alcohol are clearly getting to her much faster than they are me. 2013-03-29T23:00:00Z