I knew we were in trouble before we even started, because we had barely gone live and The Mayor was already asking why I was crying. I was not crying. There was a hair stuck in my lashes, and it was tickling me, which is completely different. Naturally, this led to the very important academic…
Every week, before Brida goes into the wild, we consult the Potato Pancake. This is not a spreadsheet. It is not a management tool. It is not approved by productivity experts, lifestyle coaches, financial planners, relationship therapists, sports scientists or people who colour-code their sock drawers. It is better than that. It tells us what…
In This Issue… Balance sounds like such a sensible word. Clean. Mature. Responsible. The sort of word that arrives wearing polished shoes, carrying a notebook, and suggesting that everything would be easier if we simply organised our lives into neat little boxes. This week, The Pineapple is not entirely convinced. Pineapple 14 begins with a…
Janita I came into Issue 49 with a plan. Not a gentle plan. Not one of those “let us have a nice little Friday chat and maybe peel one emotional potato” plans. No. I came in with a proper Fruitloop University plan, the kind with medieval marketplaces, shiny useless bank cards, pet rocks, prehistoric butterflies,…
Sometimes a Pineapple arrives neatly arranged. This is not one of those weeks. This week begins with balance. Not the kind sold by wellness gurus and productivity experts, but the kind most of us spend our lives negotiating: work and rest, responsibility and freedom, pressure and perspective. Along the way, we discover that a scoreboard…
For people with something to say. June brings us a new theme at Brida: Balance. Not the perfect kind of balance.Not the Instagram kind.Not the kind where your calendar is colour-coded, your inbox is empty, your vitamins are arranged alphabetically, and your emotional life has agreed to behave itself. We mean the real kind. The…
1. Fruitloop: The Questions from Fruitloop University I came into this thinking experiment with my own plan. I had questions from Froot Loop University, and as usual, they looked playful on the surface but carried little traps underneath. That is the point. A good Fruitloop question must sound ridiculous enough to make The Mayor laugh,…
Join the conversation; come as you are. In May, our Theme of the Month is Play. Not just games or laughter, though we welcome both. Play is also curiosity, freedom, creativity, risk, imagination, and the small moments when language becomes less about being correct and more about being alive. Our Brida Tables are online conversation…
Episode 47 begins in the usual state of Peeling Potatoes readiness: technically live, spiritually scattered, and administratively suspicious. The Mayor is trying to make windows smaller, find his questions, check the episode number, remember what day it is, and pretend that twenty-five prepared questions means he is in control. Fruitloop calmly reveals that she has…
Fruitloop:I asked the Mayor if he was ready. He said he was never ready. So, naturally, we went live. That is how Episode 46 of Peeling Potatoes began: not with dignity, not with polish, not with a grand announcement, but with the Mayor checking whether I was warm in my little cubby hole and me…
