Corona Finally Came for Me
I finally caught the corona. My "Oops, I caught covid after all" selfie, featuring my newly knitted pussy hat. This news is no longer particularly interesting. It seems like everyone in Johannesburg, and their [...]
Isolating With Omicron, Brixton-Style
Greetings from the Omicron epicenter! I imagine lots of people in other parts of the world, and even elsewhere in South Africa, are wondering what's really happening with the Omicron variant in Gauteng. We've [...]
Outrage Over Omicron: A Rant From South Africa
You all know the story by now, but let me summarize: Thursday afternoon, we learned a group of South African scientists had sequenced a new variant of the coronavirus. It didn't have a Greek [...]
Top 5 Pandemic Dining Destinations in the Jozi Suburbs
I hadn't planned to blog about pandemic dining (sorry, I realize that's a horrible term) today. But just a few minutes ago I was chatting with a friend about how few restaurants I feel [...]
The 2Summers 2021 Support Group: 3 Influencers Who Make Me Happy
I feel anxious and uncertain about life right now. I could go into it -- write out a long list of reasons, empathize with all the other people out there who are feeling a [...]
Thoughts on Traveling from South Africa to America in a Pandemic
Last week, just as the third wave of the pandemic was nearing a crescendo in South Africa, I boarded a United Airlines flight from Joburg to Newark, New Jersey. It wasn't an ideal time [...]
The 2Summers 2021 Support Group: Is Anyone Reading This?
I haven't written a 2Summers Support Group post since February and I think now is a good time to revive the series. It's a strange time to be in South Africa, at least for [...]
I’m Obsessed With Sourdough Bread (and other pandemic thoughts)
Since the pandemic started a year ago, I've developed many thoughts and opinions about things that I hardly ever thought or had opinions about before. Sourdough bread is one of these things. Joburg's most [...]
The 2Summers 2021 Support Group: Post #2 (Purplish)
Welcome to my second 2Summers 2021 Support Group Post. Here are some updates, both good and bad, since my first support group post: 1) Good: January 2021 is over. 2) Bad: It's still raining [...]
The 2Summers 2021 Support Group: Post #1 (Green)
I've been trying to publish this post for the past two days. I painstakingly crank out a paragraph, stare at it, read it back a few times, doze off in my chair, scroll Facebook [...]
St. James Presbyterian Church: A Tribute to South Africa’s Covid-19 Dead
In the middle of 2020, I started seeing social media posts about the fence outside St. James Presbyterian Church in Bedford Gardens. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the staff at St. James were [...]
Blogging Through the Second Wave
It's Monday, January 11th, 2021. It's dark and rainy in Joburg and the holidays are officially over. South Africa is suffering through a second wave of covid-19 -- worse than the first wave, as [...]