/Features/Living/-/1218/1218/-/ydk1f7z/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/A+standing+ovation+for+Puddngs+development/-/1218/1321874/-/x0tnlk/-/index.html There’s a TV ad for a margarine and its gist is to show how the nation’s children have 2012-02-07T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Taking+emotional+care+of+each+other/-/1218/1321882/-/gm3qml/-/index.html According to Lawrence Crabb, one of my favourite authors on marriage, individuals 2012-02-07T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/My+journey+back+home+after+10+years+as+a+missing+child/-/1218/1321858/-/wc4shiz/-/index.html When Rose Mueni’s family woke up one morning in late 2001 to find her missing 2012-02-07T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Im+working+on+being+less+of+a+drama+queen+this+year/-/1218/1321864/-/k5psq8/-/index.html Drama queen. I’m sure that’s the phrase that kept replaying – like a broken record 2012-02-07T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/The+triggers+of+irritable+bowel+syndrome/-/1218/1321866/-/jbjudo/-/index.html Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a collection of symptoms characterised by abdominal pain 2012-02-07T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/What+it+means+to+eat+right+when+breastfeeding/-/1218/1321862/-/fmceo7/-/index.html Next week is Valentine’s Day, and like most new mothers, I think it’ll barely registered 2012-02-07T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/-/1218/1321868/-/syuox2/-/index.html I grew up a hopeless romantic weaned on a diet of novels that portrayed love as 2012-02-07T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Meeting+the+expectations+placed+on+Mama+Mkubwa/-/1218/1317492/-/31x69kz/-/index.html It is a tradition that towards the end of each year, we write loads of letters, requesting donations from individuals and institutions to make Christmas brighter for our orphans and vulnerable children. 2012-01-31T16:04:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Nutritious+egg+based+breakfast+recipes+/-/1218/1317470/-/xmk5w1z/-/index.html Boiling an egg isn’t always simple if you do not want to your egg whites very tough or to develop a greenish/grey layer between the white and egg yolk. 2012-01-31T15:45:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Knowledge+will+get+you+closer+to+marital+bliss+/-/1218/1317452/-/3dan3nz/-/index.html Imagine you have visited a counsellor and poured out your tribulations. The counsellor has listened with all the oohs, ahas and ehms that accompany active listening. 2012-01-31T15:28:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/When+to+worry+about+uterine+fibroids+/-/1218/1317444/-/gs9a49/-/index.html Fibroids, as they are commonly known, are benign (non-cancerous) growths in the uterus and are the most common benign tumour found in females. 2012-01-31T15:19:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Want+a+better+society+Raise+responsible+sons+/-/1218/1317434/-/bv2x5l/-/index.html I learned to make my bed when I was three years old — at least that is what my mother tells me. 2012-01-31T15:10:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Puddng+wants+a+visit+from+the+lasses+in+TV+land+/-/1218/1317408/-/95sogwz/-/index.html I’m channel surfing and on one station, there’s a televangelist with a lantern jaw dishing out miracles. Is it just me or do you also find it hard to distinguish prophet from profiteer? 2012-01-31T14:39:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/From+garbage+bins+to+the+skies+/-/1218/1317402/-/wfbgdk/-/index.html We all dream of better days and brighter futures. We all want to be rich, successful, and want for nothing. 2012-01-31T14:37:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/What+to+do+if+your+child+tests+positive+for+HIV/-/1218/1313468/-/rdswck/-/index.html HIV has plagued Kenya and the sub-Saharan region for the last three decades. 2012-01-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Addicted+to+love+Consider+these+scenarios/-/1218/1313460/-/mb54o8/-/index.html Scenario one: James is a successful lawyer with clients among the high and mighty in society. 2012-01-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Tips+to+make+your+eggs+that+much+tastier/-/1218/1313462/-/fq6fhh/-/index.html We all know how to cook our eggs, but let’s look at some useful hints and techniques that will enhance our egg cooking. 2012-01-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Puddng+is+on+to+the+birds+and+the+bees/-/1218/1313464/-/ysi90k/-/index.html Ditch every last whopper in the reproduction book. Our five-year-old daughter is turning out to be some reproduction whiz. 2012-01-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/My+wife+hasnt+spoken+to+me+in+four+years/-/1218/1313466/-/10f09t0/-/index.html I am a 35-year-old man married and with two children. My wife flew out of the country for studies four years ago 2012-01-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Breaking+free+from+alcoholism/-/1218/1313456/-/4rjp6gz/-/index.html Thomas Mbui Mburu, 40, has battled addiction to alcohol for 20 years. 2012-01-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/When+a+woman+feels+she+is+not+rightfully+infected/-/1218/1313458/-/7s3wk1z/-/index.html I was at the airport waiting to board an aircraft that had delayed for hours. 2012-01-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/-/1218/1309526/-/sxs48t/-/index.html Kenyatta National Hospital Chief Public Relations Officer Simon Ithai told Living that the hospital quarantined Gibson, Muya and Kibandi because they had Gladys’ blood on them. 2012-01-18T09:44:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Avoid+the+slippery+road+that+leads+to+alcohol+abuse+/-/1218/1309074/-/ug91luz/-/index.html Alcoholism, also known as alcohol abuse, or alcohol dependence syndrome, is a medical illness 2012-01-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Even+fathers+have+their+demons+/-/1218/1309078/-/6ojxhkz/-/index.html Put your thinking cap on. Ready? It’s a four-letter word. Clue: starts with an “r”, ends with an “e”. A harrowing incident. 2012-01-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/We+must+nurture+the+skills+our+children+are+passionate+about+/-/1218/1309082/-/sh2phb/-/index.html As a child, I liked drawing images from my imagination and sometimes copying those already printed. 2012-01-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Dont+blame+gender+for+the+conflict+in+your+relationships+/-/1218/1309084/-/lh3uga/-/index.html One of the most common explanations for conflict in relationships is the differences between males and females. 2012-01-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Those+whose+dreams+are+on+the+verge+of+being+shattered+/-/1218/1309044/-/hqk9f5/-/index.html When we think about orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), the first thing that comes to the minds of most people are the myriad challenges 2012-01-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/I+should+have+mourned+my+daughter+in+dignity+/-/1218/1309000/-/11umyb8/-/index.html Gibson Kagoi is a mender of broken watches. He spends most of his days at his shop on the street hoping for good business. 2012-01-17T15:23:46Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/What+your+spouse+needs+from+you+to+thrive+/-/1218/1303092/-/63ganyz/-/index.html You probably have heard these lines before: “What do women want?” and “men are all the same, whatever you do”. 2012-01-10T13:16:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Be+on+the+lookout+for+signs+of+depression+/-/1218/1303090/-/4sva75/-/index.html Depression is a term that many Kenyans use loosely to denote feelings of a low mood 2012-01-10T13:12:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/I+refuse+to+let+a+tragic+past+ruin+my+lifes+story+/-/1218/1303088/-/vtgiqb/-/index.html Terry Gobanga was raped and stabbed on the morning of her wedding, and when she finally got married, her husband died 29 days later. Despite it all, she overcame self-pity and despair and found love again 2012-01-10T13:06:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Choose+to+live+a+full+life+with+the+time+you+have+on+earth/-/1218/1303086/-/ufeuhw/-/index.html Not so long ago, I was going through emails that I have been promising myself I will reply to, without much success. 2012-01-10T13:01:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Twocing+Taking+without+owners+consent+++/-/1218/1303084/-/15fe07g/-/index.html Sometime late last year, our daughter returned home from a jaunt at her grandma’s 2012-01-10T12:43:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Can+I+divorce+my+husband+for+beating+our+children/-/1218/1303082/-/jk1ox9/-/index.html I have been married for five years to my husband who has been constantly beating our children for very trivial mistakes. 2012-01-10T12:41:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Festivities+are+over+time+to+detox+/-/1218/1303078/-/v3r7yc/-/index.html In the new year, many people start diets and similar fads to work off the excesses of the festive season. 2012-01-10T12:37:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Oh+Someone+save+me+from+Puddngs+questions++/-/1218/1299694/-/126f6y7/-/index.html Because of the idiot box, which, this holiday, our daughter has hogged, the questions have been coming thick and fast. 2012-01-03T16:11:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Go+easy+on+these+foods+they+may+lead+to+gout++/-/1218/1299692/-/6ec3ypz/-/index.html Gout is characterised by an acute episode of a painful joint accompanied with redness, warmth, pain and swelling. 2012-01-03T16:11:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/I+paid+dearly+for+watery+milk++/-/1218/1299690/-/eg8vd4z/-/index.html My family and I moved to what we call home in the late seventies. My siblings and I had lived in Nairobi all our lives, so suddenly finding ourselves in a place with no electricity and mooing cows everywhere you turned was very disconcerting. 2012-01-03T16:11:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Please+learn+from+my+story+/-/1218/1299688/-/rbxtme/-/index.html “…It’s over now, tiga kurira ringi (Don’t cry anymore)…” the voice from the small radio suspended from the low roof of the two bedroom wooden house, sings. 2012-01-03T16:11:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Try+milk+thistle+to+deal+with+that+painful+hangover++/-/1218/1296144/-/nytwso/-/index.html There is something about this time of year that tends to bend one’s strong will, especially where alcohol is concerned. 2011-12-27T14:56:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/In+abusive+relationship+Silence+is+not+a+solution++/-/1218/1296136/-/106ni8c/-/index.html He seemed like a perfect gentleman. 2011-12-27T14:51:05Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/The+fatherhood+awards+of+2011+go+to/-/1218/1296128/-/p3mlooz/-/index.html Citation: This award goes to every father who is recovering from substance abuse, and has sworn — through cravings and compulsions — that his family is worth loads more than a snort, shoot, or shot. 2011-12-27T14:46:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Listen+your+moment+of+truth+is+knocking++/-/1218/1296120/-/byjgsq/-/index.html Turning a new leaf — to a new year, to be specific — always brings back memories, mostly sad, about the tough times I had when I tested positive, and it seemed like every single day was my last. 2011-12-27T14:41:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/You+need+not+die+from+cervical+cancer+/-/1218/1296098/-/7cv2hjz/-/index.html Cervical cancer is a malignant disease of the cervix. 2011-12-27T14:06:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Letters+to+the+editor/-/1218/1296090/-/q8e339z/-/index.html Being caught in the middle of two warring women, both of whom you love can be tough. 2011-12-27T13:57:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Make+your+marriage+work+in+2012/-/1218/1296080/-/iw7rmcz/-/index.html Marriage. A lot has been written about it, primarily how to make it “work”. 2011-12-27T13:37:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Who+is+on+your+gift+list+this+Christmas/-/1218/1292832/-/bv3kq4z/-/index.html With just three days to Christmas, you probably have almost everything in place — you have bought your children new clothes, decided where you and your family will spend this special day, and if you are entertaining, have already gone shopping and even bought a goat. 2011-12-20T15:00:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Letters+to+the+editor/-/1218/1292856/-/q8go6nz/-/index.html I was really touched by Duncan Ndegwa’s story and inspired by his achievements in spite of a disability which I dare say could have been prevented. 2011-12-20T13:58:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/A+sumptuous+Christmas+feast+that+is+healthy+too++/-/1218/1292850/-/15i1dc0z/-/index.html When my family gets together at Christmas, we eat a lot. 2011-12-20T13:52:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Mother+or+wife+Whose+side+should+a+man+take/-/1218/1292844/-/opkf0mz/-/index.html During my counselling studies, I attended a class on the philosophy of marriage. 2011-12-20T13:43:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/This+Christmas+is+turning+out+to+be+Halloween+++/-/1218/1292836/-/3bqme0z/-/index.html It is three days to Christmas, but — to paraphrase that popular carol — it is beginning to look a lot like Halloween. 2011-12-20T13:32:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/A+day+at+Nyayo+House+with+Issa+and+Joshua++/-/1218/1292820/-/14c4fj5z/-/index.html I recently went to Nyayo House to apply for passports for Issa and Joshua. 2011-12-20T12:59:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Checkups+that+could+save+your+life++/-/1218/1292802/-/lea2kf/-/index.html The World Health Organisation describes health as “...a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” 2011-12-20T12:49:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/You+brighten+my+life+Joshua/-/1218/1288748/-/iy6gkl/-/index.html Today is Joshua’s fifth birthday. Girl, is it just me, or does time fly? It seems 2011-12-13T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Heres+how+I+found+the+man+of+my+dreams/-/1218/1288756/-/89kpioz/-/index.html It is Friday morning and I have just alighted from a matatu. I look at my watch 2011-12-13T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/This+is+what+Christmas+is+about/-/1218/1288752/-/1320ys8z/-/index.html The beauty about the December festivities is the fact that they tend to bring 2011-12-13T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Listen+fathers+are+crying+out+for+help+too/-/1218/1288750/-/s08c4nz/-/index.html I’m lying in bed, on my left side. It’s early morning. I can tell because daylight’s 2011-12-13T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Diarrhoea+kills+dont+ignore+it+/-/1218/1288758/-/ck18dhz/-/index.html One of the leading causes of death in children is diarrhoeal diseases. Diarrhoea sounds 2011-12-13T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Letters+to+the+Editor/-/1218/1288816/-/8ibaro/-/index.html Thank you very much for bringing up the issue of dyslexia in your magazine 2011-12-13T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/He+is+a+man+of+the+people/-/1218/1288734/-/11c8xk6/-/index.html Duncan Ndegwa was struck by polio as a child, leaving his legs paralysed 2011-12-13T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/-/1218/1285664/-/sjjx9u/-/index.html Thanks, Asunta, for your resolve to fight this virus and for motivating many others living with it to move on with their lives. 2011-12-07T14:18:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/-/1218/1285662/-/sjjx9s/-/index.html Often, matters related to sex are not easily or freely discussed in our society. 2011-12-07T14:18:48Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/The+name+you+give+your+child+really+matters/-/1218/1285166/-/w8aonoz/-/index.html Baby — pronounced “Babe E” — was a name that, for a long time, our daughter 2011-12-06T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/I+cannot+stand+my+short+and+abusive+marriage+anymore/-/1218/1285210/-/knihepz/-/index.html I got married two years ago, but I am already tired of this marriage and want out 2011-12-06T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Women+with+HIV+want+children+too/-/1218/1285160/-/exy9bm/-/index.html I cannot talk enough about the plight of childless women living with HIV 2011-12-06T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Mistakes+parents+make+with+their+teens/-/1218/1285202/-/ucvrlkz/-/index.html It is said that teenagers are complex and sneaky, that it is difficult to know 2011-12-06T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Living+beyond+your+means+just+to+keep+up+appearances/-/1218/1285158/-/a9wor2z/-/index.html The other day, my six-year-old daughter casually mentioned that one 2011-12-06T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/My+learning+disability+didnt+stop+me/-/1218/1285156/-/6errr8z/-/index.html There is no doubt that George Waweru Ndagu is gifted. We are in his photo studio at Upper Hill Springs 2011-12-06T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Lets+toast+to+zero+Aids+related+deaths/-/1218/1281402/-/133tlyt/-/index.html “Getting to Zero.” This is the theme of this year’s World Aids Day, which was announced 2011-11-29T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/So+you+want+to+start+having+sex/-/1218/1281412/-/140ug6qz/-/index.html Today I write to you concerning an important topic, a topic that we adults tend to shy 2011-11-29T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Our+Puddngs+like+a+duck+she+cannot+resist+water/-/1218/1281410/-/qcud67/-/index.html Our Pudd’ng is the quintessential water dog. Give her a boat and some 2011-11-29T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/The+power+to+protect+and+to+plan/-/1218/1281392/-/12rklfa/-/index.html When it comes to reproductive health issues, Mercy Kagiri’s life could 2011-11-29T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Look+at+how+far+this+former+housegirl+has+come/-/1218/1277312/-/whrb0rz/-/index.html As Eva Kasaya got up to receive her award, she could hardly believe it. But there was no 2011-11-22T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Will+I+be+a+burden+to+my+children+when+Im+old/-/1218/1277326/-/esk418z/-/index.html Pa rises from the sofa to take a leak, the sixth time he has got up since I sat 2011-11-22T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/-/1218/1277322/-/siypjw/-/index.html There seems to be a surge in the number of women having miscarriages 2011-11-22T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Finally+Jacqueline+and+her+siblings+have+a+home/-/1218/1277324/-/i5tua9z/-/index.html At last, at long last, Jacqueline and her three siblings have a home 2011-11-22T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Hawi+mended+our+broken+hearts/-/1218/1273298/-/21firwz/-/index.html Last year, in 21 April, Michael Ochieng and his wife Veronica Akinyi lost 2011-11-15T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/As+long+as+Im+alive+Ill+drink+and+make+merry/-/1218/1273302/-/1y1ix1z/-/index.html It is customary in Kikuyu tradition that when you give birth, neighbours, friends 2011-11-15T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Puddngs+about+to+turn+five+how+time+flies/-/1218/1273304/-/qwxmfs/-/index.html Sunday, 18 November, 2007. The day is not just a celebration. We have also invited 2011-11-15T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/You+wont+be+young+forever+Invest+now/-/1218/1273306/-/144jkct/-/index.html For you to get into a relationship and agree to a marriage, there are qualities 2011-11-15T21:00:00Z