A Quick Tour of Brixton Monuments
Regular readers of this blog know that my boyfriend, Thorsten, is an architect. You might not know that he is also an artist, and he recently created a beautiful series of prints portraying historic monuments in our home suburb of Brixton. The first of...
Yola’s: The Place for Koesisters (and Koeksisters?) in Joburg
I’m struggling to figure out how to start writing this post because I’m struggling to figure out how to explain koesisters. A koesister from Yola’s kitchen. The koesister ranks among South Africa’s most iconic foods, right up there with...
Youth Day Warmup for the Brixton Light Festival
After last year’s Brixton Light Festival, lots of people read my blog post and were sad they missed the festival and asked how they could be sure not to miss the next one. So consider yourselves warned: The next Brixton Light Festival takes place on Saturday,...
A Brixton Mosaic in Rosebank
This is a quick post advising Joburg art-lovers to go to the Everard Read Gallery in Rosebank to check out the beautiful mosaic in the courtyard. It was made in Brixton. The courtyard mosaic at Everard Read, created by Bronwen Findlay and her team. The hadeda is, of...
Trixie and Brixie
As I write this, I’m sitting in my aunt’s house in chilly Sleepy Hollow, New York. But let me backtrack a couple of weeks to a summer day in Johannesburg, South Africa, when I was typing away in my home office and a skinny black kitten walked through the...
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.
