by 2summers | Jul 19, 2023 | Johannesburg
Yesterday I listened to an episode of The Daily, my favorite news podcast, titled “The Writers’ Revolt Against AI Companies”. The episode focused on a current news story about comedian Sarah Silverman, who is suing OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT)...
by 2summers | Jun 10, 2021 | COVID-19
I haven’t written a 2Summers Support Group post since February and I think now is a good time to revive the series. It’s a strange time to be in South Africa, at least for me. I feel super weird and whiny. It’s winter and we’re all huddled...
by 2summers | May 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
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 again, for real. I’ve set myself a strict rule of writing for at least one hour and 500 words per day. It’s a...
by 2summers | Jun 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Emotions, Johannesburg
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 obtaining an international driver’s license for my impending...
by 2summers | Jun 10, 2020 | COVID-19, Emotions, Johannesburg
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 about virtually every aspect of lockdown, COVID-19, and the state of the world...