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 beautiful (and tasty) loaf of sourdough. Before...
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 in Joburg, for the 13th (feels like 130th) straight day. 3) Good: I...
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 for 20 minutes, read the paragraph again, delete it in disgust. I’ve done this...
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 tying one white ribbon to the church’s palisade fence for every...
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 many experts predicted, and likely to worsen further as...
Heather Mason
I’m an American writer/blogger/photographer living a quirky life in Johannesburg. Follow along as I explore Johannesburg, South Africa, and the rest of the world.