/Features/lifestyle/-/1214/1214/-/g1edpr/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Surprises+and+horrors+in+human+bodies++/-/1214/1324874/-/3jodw8/-/index.html The very interesting article by Kamau Mutunga in the DN2 of January 15 titled “The strange things found in human bodies” inspired me to look at my own surgical archive for similar cases. 2012-02-11T15:53:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Yunia+must+go+back+to+her+husband+/-/1214/1324864/-/11ph4wfz/-/index.html When my sister Yunia arrived home last November, I thought that she had brought her three children for December holidays, and would return to her husband within a few days. 2012-02-11T15:47:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Evolution+of+the+nail+industry+/-/1214/1324856/-/qr1h6t/-/index.html It is an interesting thing when you realise that just when you think fashion has thought of every conceivable way to make itself indispensable, it will come up with something new. 2012-02-11T15:40:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Our+soldiers+portray+real+Kenyan+heroes+/-/1214/1324854/-/vark9pz/-/index.html It may not seem like it, but this country is at war against forces that would threaten our freedom and security. 2012-02-11T15:36:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Valentines+Be+naughty+/-/1214/1324846/-/8mkjqlz/-/index.html Tuesday’s St Valentine’s Day! And I don’t know if it’s just me, but do you get the feeling that no one’s really interested this year? 2012-02-11T15:31:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Juba+and+a+tale+of+two+cities+/-/1214/1324832/-/rgj7ei/-/index.html Surrounded by tall Dinka men at the airport in Juba, I felt something like Gulliver must have felt in Brobdingnag, the land of giants. 2012-02-11T15:21:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Single+or+not+enjoy+Valentines+/-/1214/1324822/-/o8nerkz/-/index.html I know someone whose wife slapped his face with a bunch of flowers seconds after he pressed the elaborate red bouquet in her hands. 2012-02-11T15:11:38Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Nothing+puts+this+man+down/-/1214/1324812/-/9mjhrx/-/index.html Rolf Schmid has surmounted many barriers in life but a diagnosis of throat cancer came as a terrible blow to the prominent chef. 2012-02-11T14:52:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/When+cowboys+came+singing+/-/1214/1320274/-/j37ys6z/-/index.html Kenya is not used to international country music bands performing live on stage. 2012-02-04T15:04:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Furore+over+KCPE+pre+trial+exam+/-/1214/1320268/-/1g3ad4z/-/index.html As the whole country knows, the performance of our school in last year’s KCPE examination was neither exceptional nor alarming. 2012-02-04T14:58:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Giving+our+children+the+space+to+grow+up+/-/1214/1320262/-/4flqa8/-/index.html My teenage daughter left home last week. 2012-02-04T14:55:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+science+behind+weight+loss+/-/1214/1320244/-/l0hs9p/-/index.html Most of us diet sometime or other – and we want fast results. 2012-02-04T14:50:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Legally+the+mounds+on+roads+are+not+speed+bumps+/-/1214/1320234/-/3tb5ifz/-/index.html It is time to correct two widely held misconceptions. 2012-02-04T14:44:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+final+leg+into+South+Africa+/-/1214/1320226/-/rkonpq/-/index.html It turned out to be the last long day of our drive from Kenya to South Africa. 2012-02-04T14:36:05Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Two+annoying+things+I+would+rather+do+without+this+year+/-/1214/1320206/-/15bsx3s/-/index.html We’re only in the second month of the year, so I can get away with writing about the two things I would rather do without this year. 2012-02-04T14:12:35Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/I+can+make+you+a+wife+for+life+/-/1214/1320190/-/tdccrvz/-/index.html Rosalyn Muthiora takes her marriage very serisouly. 2012-02-04T13:59:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+best+of+Indian+cinema+/-/1214/1315628/-/fpk6g0z/-/index.html THE GLAMOUR OF the Indian tinsel world was on show at the 18th Color Screen Awards. 2012-01-28T15:24:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Why+pride+is+ugly+and+destructive++/-/1214/1315626/-/aei31sz/-/index.html A man might say, “I am the most powerful man in the world!” 2012-01-28T15:22:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/When+the+hunter+becomes+the+hunted+/-/1214/1315618/-/su00djz/-/index.html Having written about illnesses of my patients for over three decades, it is high time that I came out clean and wrote about my own. 2012-01-28T15:08:34Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Big+harvest+from+The+Hague+/-/1214/1315614/-/idttnvz/-/index.html Times are hard and business is low for everyone. 2012-01-28T14:58:09Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Making+bonded+hair+look+natural+/-/1214/1315598/-/fa68plz/-/index.html If there is one thing that a lot of Kenyan women keep getting accused of, it would be the need to have long hair however fake it might look. 2012-01-28T14:35:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+psychopaths+among+us+/-/1214/1315584/-/l84jkb/-/index.html Most of us are trusting and generous – and vulnerable to liars and cheats. 2012-01-28T14:14:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Crossing+the+Zambezi+/-/1214/1315576/-/151sxk9z/-/index.html We knew that this would likely be the highlight of our long journey of 4,000 kilometres to South Africa – the time in Livingstone and across the Zambezi into Zimbabwe. 2012-01-28T14:03:48Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Why+do+we+dismiss+those+who++beg+for+just+a+little+of+our+cash/-/1214/1315532/-/ox592k/-/index.html The overpowering stench is the first thing that alerted me to his presence, a few seconds before a dirty palm rested on my arm. 2012-01-28T13:54:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/United+in+songs+of+love+and+peace+/-/1214/1315524/-/sy1ee6/-/index.html Burnt Forest township in Uasin Gishu county has remained in the news for all the wrong reasons over the years, especially during election years. 2012-01-28T13:44:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Launching+Mwishos+newest+bar+/-/1214/1311586/-/a7988o/-/index.html Although we do not see eye-to-eye on school matters with Mr Kwame, outside school we are tight like this. 2012-01-21T14:15:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Life+lessons+from+Robben+Island+/-/1214/1311584/-/jl5lhgz/-/index.html Robben Island, made famous largely because former South African President Nelson Mandela was imprisoned there, is really a fitting place for confinement and oppression. 2012-01-21T14:12:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Make+a+first+date+work+for+you++/-/1214/1311574/-/5jx6rt/-/index.html A first date – so full of hope and excitement, but all too often leading to relationships that are more trouble than they’re worth. 2012-01-21T14:04:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Motorists+now+closer+to+justice+/-/1214/1311570/-/cd0g2n/-/index.html Kenya's motorists lead a life of strife. 2012-01-21T13:59:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+science+behind+peeling+off+dead+facial+skin+/-/1214/1311560/-/jg5qxa/-/index.html We never really think that this is ever going to happen to us but sometimes we find that we are in a position where we need a little extra help in the skin care department. 2012-01-21T13:50:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Down+the+Great+North+Road+/-/1214/1311548/-/rhq5bk/-/index.html We were on the second day of our drive to South Africa. 2012-01-21T13:42:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Stealing+in+the+name+of+Jesus+/-/1214/1311540/-/48ks3o/-/index.html A few Sundays ago, while looking for something decent to watch on television, I stumbled across a sermon that was just about to begin. 2012-01-21T13:31:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+day+Moi+changed+my+life+/-/1214/1311530/-/ilohe5/-/index.html She is a systems administrator at Kenya Power, the chairperson of a government task force to improve computer use and penetration in Nairobi, evangelist and motivational speaker all rolled into one. 2012-01-21T13:18:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Anticipating+death+to+end+loneliness/-/1214/1305470/-/cy231z/-/index.html The phone rang early one Sunday morning and it was my neighbour, George Cunningham 2012-01-14T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+universe+starts+and+ends+everywhere/-/1214/1305472/-/p8f75iz/-/index.html John Kamau sends in four questions that have been bugging him, namely 2012-01-14T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Red+carpet+style/-/1214/1305464/-/jtir8az/-/index.html It is that time of the year again when Hollywood celebrities meet on the red carpet 2012-01-14T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/To+a+child+love+is+spelled+TIME/-/1214/1305462/-/jbygm/-/index.html A friend recently told me a story how she once almost ran over her child 2012-01-14T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/TSC+can+no+longer+ignore+me/-/1214/1305468/-/1148td1/-/index.html When, last year, the Teachers’ Service Commission announced that only teachers 2012-01-14T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Giving+hope+to+cancer+patients+and+survivors/-/1214/1305448/-/12yg85hz/-/index.html Kassim Bharadia can be easily described as a shy man. He likes to keep to himself 2012-01-14T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/-/1214/1305454/-/ydcbh9z/-/index.html A few days ago, I bumped into an acquaintance – a woman who served me whenever 2012-01-14T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Men+are+wired+to+feel+needed/-/1214/1305458/-/v8u4mo/-/index.html Couples can be gloriously happy together. But these days, married men often feel 2012-01-14T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Essential+oils+for+glossy+hair/-/1214/1305456/-/8qc24q/-/index.html Oils have gained a bad reputation. We are told not to use them on our skin because 2012-01-14T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Notes+from+an+MPs+diary+/-/1214/1301540/-/s6b14r/-/index.html Former Ol-Kalou MP Muroki Karue cemented his place in Kenya’s history books for being the architect of the popular Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). 2012-01-07T15:16:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Trouble+over+poor+KCPE+results+/-/1214/1301538/-/92nshu/-/index.html Mwisho wa Lami Primary School may not have posted outstanding KCPE results like Marel Academy, but we did not “fall” like Nyakemincha Primary. 2012-01-07T15:04:05Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Education+is+key+to+life+but+not+worth+dying+for/-/1214/1301536/-/6xk0qiz/-/index.html Even before the nation had sufficient time to digest the release of the KCPE results or the feting of the top students, a disturbing news item came to light. 2012-01-07T14:59:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/A+fashion+legacy+/-/1214/1301534/-/8alt7yz/-/index.html It has always been presumed that a woman’s politics has nothing to do with her fashion. 2012-01-07T14:54:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+one+act+that+can+solve+Kenyas+traffic+problems+/-/1214/1301532/-/x22mn4z/-/index.html There is no golden bullet that will solve all Kenya’s traffic jams and road safety problems. 2012-01-07T14:51:34Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Failing+exams+should+not+kill+you+/-/1214/1301530/-/buna2dz/-/index.html This year, 7,900 children who sat their KCPE examinations last year have nothing to show for the eight years they laboured for a certificate that would have been their ticket to high school. 2012-01-07T14:47:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Safari+to+S+Africa+with+Mzee/-/1214/1301526/-/4omw7ez/-/index.html It was last July when the idea came. 2012-01-07T14:14:34Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+great+digital+divide/-/1214/1301524/-/twy57yz/-/index.html “Imagine a congregation in the deepest parts of Rabai,” says sociologist Halimu Shauri. 2012-01-07T14:02:44Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Dramatic+close+to+a+mundane+story/-/1214/1298170/-/3pnlyk/-/index.html Last year when I closed the file on the fascinating case of Evelyn, I realised that while I was dealing with her, I had unwittingly encountered women’s lib, gender balance, freedom of action and the power of websites and social networks like Facebook and Twitter. 2011-12-31T15:03:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Boxing+Day+in+a+police+cell/-/1214/1298168/-/o9yyif/-/index.html As it may have been rumoured to you on these pages late last year, together with my colleagues at school, we planned to orchestrate the mother of all bashes on Boxing Day. 2011-12-31T15:02:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+first+step+in+2012+is+to+shed+dead+skin/-/1214/1298166/-/xs1wmiz/-/index.html Human beings have always been intrigued by snakes, probably ever since one cajoled Eve into eating the forbidden fruit in Eden. 2011-12-31T15:02:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Renewing+your+brand/-/1214/1298164/-/d1e78e/-/index.html If there is one thing we repeatedly do each year end, it would be to make an attempt at fresh beginnings. 2011-12-31T15:02:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+three+plus+one+types+of+car+service/-/1214/1298162/-/10420ui/-/index.html There are four distinct types of service for your car. 2011-12-31T15:02:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Resolutions+you+can+keep/-/1214/1298160/-/hmqarkz/-/index.html There is something about a new year that inspires rare optimism in most people. 2011-12-31T15:02:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/A+picnic+with+music+blankets+and+wine+/-/1214/1298158/-/kxxtuhz/-/index.html I saw it in KenyaBuzz (a very good thing, KenyaBuzz), that on Sunday December 18 there was going to be the Blankets and Wine XXXI. 2011-12-31T15:02:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/New+year+on+a+shoestring/-/1214/1298156/-/fsx7vy/-/index.html It has been five years since Julius Nzioka last enjoyed the Christmas holidays. 2011-12-31T15:02:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Bill+Clinton+on+smart+government+/-/1214/1295170/-/r1b2yx/-/index.html Bill Clinton’s newly released book was primarily written to boost his Democratic Party’s re-election bid in 2012 2011-12-24T14:15:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Joy+to+Mwisho+a+child+is+born/-/1214/1295168/-/2jbydsz/-/index.html Having earned some good money at the teachers interviews, there was no better way to celebrate this than at Hitler’s. 2011-12-24T14:15:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/How+to+avoid+Christmas+blues+/-/1214/1295160/-/rbv2vbz/-/index.html Christmas has long been one of the most important dates in the Christian calendar. 2011-12-24T14:06:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Joseph+the+unsung+hero+of+Christmas+/-/1214/1295142/-/dvfbcaz/-/index.html Christians the world over are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, the head of the Church and foundation of their salvation. 2011-12-24T13:40:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Holiday+treats+at+the+museum+/-/1214/1295136/-/wsjuid/-/index.html I used to think museums were serious places: a matter of looking at things, usually dead things, in rows of glass cases. 2011-12-24T13:37:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+upside+to+being+broke+/-/1214/1295130/-/12j9n9i/-/index.html If there was ever a low-key Christmas, it has to be this one. 2011-12-24T13:34:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Lunch+in+floating+dining+room/-/1214/1290874/-/liydyxz/-/index.html “If you want to see the old buffalo close up, you will have to stop talking,” warned 2011-12-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Teacher+with+a+golden+touch/-/1214/1290854/-/f2olk7z/-/index.html When a pair of Stanford University graduates set out to establish a Pan African 2011-12-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/How+to+keep+the+good+cheer+this+financially+lean+Christmas/-/1214/1290872/-/11upiol/-/index.html Christmas must be the most anticipated day of the year – probably because 2011-12-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/How+to+measure+temperature+of+sun+from+earth/-/1214/1290870/-/dndk7lz/-/index.html A reader asked me this: “How hot is the surface of the sun?” My answer was 2011-12-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Dress+for+fitness/-/1214/1290860/-/hg6l23z/-/index.html It is almost Christmas and I’m sure a feast is already laid out in your mind. There is no room 2011-12-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Texture+of+natural+hair/-/1214/1290862/-/ynojjmz/-/index.html African hair is interesting hair. Never mind that in some of its variations it is 2011-12-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Anything+but+this+veritable+bore/-/1214/1290864/-/il7talz/-/index.html Prof Walter was a brilliant pathologist and a veritable bore. He was a research scholar 2011-12-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/-/1214/1290866/-/yqykl9z/-/index.html I had wanted to stay in Nairobi for a few days after the Murang’a trip but the call 2011-12-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Critical+philosophy+for+Africa/-/1214/1290868/-/hqbif4z/-/index.html Soon after the death of Jacques Derrida in October 2004, Stephen D. Partington 2011-12-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/-/1214/1287294/-/yrgdviz/-/index.html He lost his hand in a blast but he reckons that if, by some miracle, he were 2011-12-10T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Values+that+make+a+leader+great/-/1214/1287314/-/87t3id/-/index.html Lots of people say they’re leaders. CEOs, for example, and politicians. But are they 2011-12-10T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+freeloaders+next+door/-/1214/1287310/-/6gkdydz/-/index.html Neighbours. In an ideal world, we’d all live in a large gated compound where we 2011-12-10T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/48+hours+in+Nairobi/-/1214/1287312/-/wva966z/-/index.html My son has just sent me a link to a newish online travel magazine, produced 2011-12-10T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/A+tribute+to+Mugo+Gatheru/-/1214/1287336/-/gybot0/-/index.html Kenyan author Reuel John Mugo Gatheru has died in California, USA. He died “peacefully 2011-12-10T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/The+business+of+beauty/-/1214/1287334/-/o4rkuh/-/index.html The beauty industry, according to increasing press reports, is suffering as 2011-12-10T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/lifestyle/Guide+to+manly+style/-/1214/1287332/-/bbr8saz/-/index.html Few things are as attractive as a stylish man. They are an especially rare sight in Kenya 2011-12-10T21:00:00Z