#Blogging - 81 posts

Instagram for Art’s Sake, installment #4. A good task for a cold, rainy weekend in Jozi. This is what kept me busy over the weekend. Writing my life story …

I’ve always been a storyteller. For the last two years, this blog has been a place where I combine words and photos to tell stories. I haven’t …

I recently sat in my therapist’s office, weaving my latest tale of woe. When I finished, she looked at me in that measured way that therapists do, and …

UPDATE: This morning I received a call from the brand communications manager for Nike South Africa. He apologized profusely for the misuse of my photo and …

I got an iPad. (Thanks, Mom.) I realize I’m behind the curve on this iPad thing. It took me a while to understand the point. What do I need with a weird …

Tomorrow it will be two years since I moved to Joburg. It’s 7:41 on a Sunday morning. Even though it is technically still winter, I’m sitting on the …

One of the most colorful photos I have, taken at the Joburg Pride parade last year. I don’t often write “blog award” posts. The bloggers among …

Jon died six months ago today. I started out writing one of my typical “grief posts”. I’ve developed a formula for those: wax lyrical about my …

Yesterday I attended the Founders Day ceremony at St. Stithians College, a Joburg prep school. I was invited by a wonderful lady named Debbie, whose children go …

Every couple of weeks, I open my blog and look at what I wrote exactly a year ago. It’s a good way to process what’s happened and put things in …

I often find myself trying to explain what blogging means to me – how it’s helped me connect with people, both here in Joburg and around the world. …

Yesterday morning I received a worried call from Horst, my landlord. A friend of his had just read on page 10 of The Star, a South African daily newspaper, that …