Switching Off in the Drakensberg
Last week, Thorsten and I went on holiday in the Drakensberg. View of Cathkin Peak, a famous mountain in the central Drakensberg, from the patio of our friend's holiday house. "On holiday" [...]
Joburg Lost Gail
My friend Gail Wilson died today. Gail had been very sick for a couple of months and she knew this day was coming; a small group of those closest to her knew, too. But [...]
A Writing Holiday in Leisure Bay
I just returned to Joburg after a week in Leisure Bay, a seaside community on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast. I went there to escape Joburg's cold, dry winter, and also to work on my [...]
Grieving for Jon, Ten Years Later
For the past couple of months, I've been thinking about what to write in my blog for the ten-year anniversary of Jon's death. Jon died a decade ago tomorrow. Jon hanging out with the [...]
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 [...]
2Summers Moves to Brixton
Last week I moved from Melville, the central Joburg suburb where I've lived for the past 11 years, to Brixton, another central Joburg suburb about five minutes away. Here I am in a Brixton [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sunrise Over 2021
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 democracy since the Civil War. I'm having a hard time feeling [...]
Ten Years of 2Summers (Lockdown Day 92)
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 blog 2Summers and my recent experience [...]
Five Good Things That Have Happened to Me During Lockdown (Day 76)
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 began.) I have blogged [...]
My Love Life Under Lockdown (Day 70)
It's Day 70 of the South African lockdown. Perhaps this is a sign that I've truly lost my mind, but I'm going to get real and blog about my love life today. Throughout this [...]