Emotions (Category) - 97 posts

I just returned from a week in Leisure Bay, a beach community on the KZN-Eastern Cape border, where I went to work on my memoir.

Jon died ten years ago tomorrow. Every time I think my grieving process is ending, it comes back in a slightly different form.

Thorsten has been diagnosed with covid for the second time -- presumably omicron. Fortunately we have a nice house to isolate in together.

I recently moved from Melville to Brixton, which sounds like it's not really a big deal but actually it is.

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 …

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 …

NOTE: I originally wrote this post before January 6th, when pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol and mounted the biggest threat to American …

Ten years ago today, I opened wordpress.com for the first time and started this blog. I published a short, not terribly interesting post about why I named the …

It’s Day 76 of the South African lockdown, and I have now blogged on 71 of the last 79 days. (I started my Lockdown Journal three days before the lockdown …

Dating and relationships are taboo topics during lockdown, especially for singles. Today I'm getting real and talking about my love life during COVID-19.

Racism has been consuming my thoughts this weekend, and it's time for me to write a blog post about. It's my responsibility as a white person to do so.

It's Day 60 of the South African lockdown, and in the words of the brilliant Fiona Apple, it's time to Fetch the Bolt Cutters.