Have you ever stopped to evaluate the delicate, unspoken rulebooks we maintain between spouses, parents, children, and friends? In almost every relationship, there is a constant, quiet calculus running in the background: Who do I share this with? Who isn’t supposed to hear about that? Sometimes, keeping track of it all creates a kind of…
Before we get to the rules and this week’s editorial, the Mayor and I are absolutely delighted to share some official business with you: The Pineapple is now officially registered as a magazine, complete with our very own ISSN number! We are immensely proud of this milestone—even though the Mayor still insists on claiming that…
By Janita Le Grange, Editor. We all have an invisible referee living inside our heads, constantly blowing a whistle at every turn. You sit down to start working, and immediately the whistle blows: a phone call comes in. You handle that, sit back down, and whistle—time to cut hair, drive to school, and crawl through…
By Janita Le Grange, Editor. Have you ever walked into a room, looked around, and realized with absolute certainty: Nobody told me about this? Maybe a vital memo left the building without stopping at your desk. Maybe a meeting took place that you were never invited to. Or maybe everyone simply assumed someone else had…
By Janita Le Grange, Pineapple Editor. What is the actual meaning of “ordinary”? On paper, it means normal, usual, or expected. Something that happens regularly without fanfare. Nothing special, nothing different—everything just stays the same. It is an ordinary day, an ordinary job, an ordinary drive to work or school. There is no major excitement,…
By our editor, Janita Le Grange. Have you ever looked at something and thought, “Well, this is completely useless”—only to turn around a moment later, look at something else, and think, “This is absolute brilliance”? We live surrounded by logic that we rarely bother to question. Take our smart devices, for instance. We buy laptops,…
By our editor, Janita Le Grange. It is a simple question, but if I’m being completely honest, I ask it of myself at least half a dozen times a day. Take WhatsApp, for instance. I will open a message, read it carefully, compose a brilliant, thoughtful response entirely in my head, and then walk away….
This week’s editorial, by Janita Le Grange. This week’s editorial arrived with its own set of challenges. My mind is bursting with so many things to talk about that I feel like I simply don’t have enough paper to write it all down. Lately, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about the twin forces of…
By Janita Le Grange, Editor. Last week, during one of our regular check-ins, the Mayor confessed something to me. “I am not sure how Pineapple 25 will come together…” he admitted. Without hesitating, I told him, “Don’t worry. I will do what I did last time, and then we’ll take it from there.” It wasn’t…
On Friday morning, The Mayor sent a message: “I will send you a message later. Nothing dramatic or serious, don’t worry.” Naturally, my mind went into an immediate spin. What could this possibly be about? But after spending the entire sunny afternoon on a cricket pitch—watching seven-year-olds bowl a ball and smack it as hard…
