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My boyfriend Thorsten created a series of linocut prints honoring Brixton monuments. I tried (and failed) to capture his prints in photos.

On Sunday I visited several artists' studios in downtown Joburg as part of Open Studios 2023. Joburg has one of the world's best art scenes.

A few months ago, I wrote in a blog post that I was finally working on writing my memoir. Like, for real this time. “I’ve started working on my memoir …

More than three months after losing him, I am finally saying a proper goodbye to Smokey, the Melville Cat.

It's September in Joburg, almost all the lockdown rules have eased, and I am suffering from a strange case of lockdown nostalgia.

I've come up with a plan to keep blogging consistently while also writing my long-awaited book. To make this happen, I need your help.

For those of you who are new to this blog: The Melville Cat is an occasional guest contributor. Tonight he has written his second lockdown journal post. Read …

Obtaining a South African visa is hard. Obtaining permanent residency is even harder. Here's a brief history my visa experiences over the past decade.

I've chosen my list of the #10SouthAfricanTowns I'm going to visit in 2020. Here's a sneak preview. Also, I need your support to pull off this campaign.

In 2020, to celebrate 10 years of 2Summers, I plan to visit and blog about 10 small towns across nine South African provinces. Help me with my challenge.

There's no such thing as the perfect hotel room. Even the most luxurious rooms have quirks. Here are the five quirks that I find most annoying.

I started this blog in June 2010 and named it 2Summers on a whim. I was moving from the United States to South Africa and I would experience two summers in the …